Christina Aguilera sporting something special under her shirt in 2004 that might prove she was the “Dirty” one in a feud she wanted no part of.
Were you team Christina or team Britney? There can be only one! Just kidding. Both women denied having any beef with each other. Why would they? They both had big bank accounts and big… personalities to boot. I’m glad they get along. But I do have the feeling which one was the bad bitch based strictly on this photo.
Here’s what Christina had to say: “It’s hard to hear yourself being called names. I remember being hurt by these commercials on MTV, pitting Britney as the good girl and me as the bad girl. It’s like, if I’m going to be demure and innocent, that’s okay. But if I’m going to just be myself, I’m trouble.”
Paris Hilton eats a popsicle in Los Angeles in 2004.
The first decade of the millennium belonged to Paris Hilton. Did she earn it? Did she even earn… money? Her sex tape was leaked by an ex-boyfriend and she eventually sued for a portion of the profits. I, for one, have only been promised to be paid in exposure for mine. We’ll see.
Here’s what she had to say about her financial worries: “I never made a dollar. I make enough money in nice ways. My fragrance makes enough, I don’t need to worry about that.”
Beyoncé takes a walk with her new bodyguard in 2004.
Even fans of Destiny’s Child could not have predicted how far Beyoncé would go. Long before Lemonade, the singer was rising in the music world so fast, she needed to pay someone to look out for her.
She told Rolling Stone this about her unimaginable fame and how she stayed popular: This is not something anybody planned for me. I had the help of my family, I don’t do it all by myself, but I write my songs, I write my treatments, I help with my clothes. Anybody who, every time they’re seen they’re right — it’s not other people. You can’t be that consistent without the artist being involved.”
Adriana Lima sets a record for most appearances on the cover of GQ Magazine.
If you recognize this model, you’ve probably walked past the magazine section of the supermarket often. Lima has appeared countless times on the cover of GQ and was once listed by Forbes as the 4th-highest-earning model of the year.
Lima posed for magazines, Fendi, Maybelline, you name it. She’s one of the best models to ever do it, and the early 2000s brought her into the Lima-light. You see what I did there?
Victoria’s Secret model Doutzen Kroes takes an early casting photo in 2003.
Wow. An 18-year-old model from Amsterdam was about to take the world by storm, and this casting polaroid shows why. She looks like she’s not even ready to have her photo taken, and still, she looks gorgeous.
Kroes fell into modeling accidentally when some photos of her were sent to an agency. Before that she spent her days biking and caring for her horses at her rural home. Fate stepped in.