Christina Aguilera was born in Staten Island, New York, on December 18, 1980, to Shelly Loraine, a musician, and Fausto Xavier Aguilera, a United States Army soldier. Her family moved frequently because of her father's military service, and lived in places including New Jersey, Texas, New York, and Japan. Aguilera and her mother alleged that her father was physically and emotionally abusive, claims which he denied; Aguilera used music as a form of escape from her turbulent household. Following her parents' divorce when she was six years old, Aguilera, her younger sister Rachel, and her mother (who later remarried) moved into her grandmother's home in the Pittsburgh suburb of Rochester, Pennsylvania. After several years of being estranged, Aguilera expressed interest in reconciling with her father in 2012. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
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