Raising children can sometimes stir heavy emotions in parents, and it's no different for Christina Aguilera.
During an interview with Glamour, the pop icon had a tearful moment while discussing her children, son Max Liron Bratman, 16, and daughter Summer Rain Rutler, 10. The conversation took a turn when the 5-time Grammy winner discussed how she was heavily ridiculed as a teen star.
"I have a maturity now where I just don’t give a fuck about your opinion. I’m not going to take it on," she told the publication. "It must be your responsibility to take up your space. Other people’s opinions of me are not my business."
On Max, whom she shares with her ex-husband Jordan Bratman, and Summer, whom she shares with her fiancé Matthew Rutler, the "Beautiful" singer wants to instill similar confidence.
"Your kids trigger things in you that you don’t want them to go through," she continued. "And it’s almost like you’re reliving this whole thing again."
Telling reporter Christopher Rosa that he caught her at a "weird moment," Aguilera confessed to feeling like she's "lecturing" and "over talking" to her children as they get older. "You just want the best for your kids."
"I love my son and my daughter so much, and you do want to shield and protect them from the world,” the vocalist continued. "But they have to learn their own lessons."
In revisiting old pictures of her children, Aguilera added, "I’ll never see that person again."
"They’re going to make their own choices and mistakes that define how they want to be. It’s such a layered, interesting thing to be a parent and watch these people, these humans, grow up."
Elsewhere in the conversation, Aguilera chatted about being a staple in the late 1990s, early 2000s bubblegum pop era, and how the self-esteem around Aguilera's body image plummeted in her 20s.