She looks SO much better this way!

Christina Aguilera usually has pounds of makeup on, but she stripped it all off to go fresh faced on the cover of the latest Paper magazine. The singer showed off her pale complexion and freckles, and she's such a natural beauty that it's a shame she always cakes on the cosmetics.

"I mean, I’m a girl that likes a beat face. Let’s not get it twisted. I’ve always been someone that obviously loves to experiment, loves theatrics, loves to create a story line and play a character in a video or through stage. I’m a performer, that’s who I am by nature. But I’m at the place, even musically, where it’s a liberating feeling to be able to strip it all back and appreciate who you are and your raw beauty," she explained in the interview.

So what lessons does she hope to pass down to her daughter?

"I don’t want to inject too much upon her as to how I’m choosing to live my life and what I’ve done in my career. I just hope I can allow what I’m doing to influence her to be her own person. That’s truly what I hope for her. I really want to make sure my children are both very confident in the sense that they know who they are and that they won’t be easily swayed by outside opinion," she revealed.

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