Christina Aguilera Looks Incredible In Women's Health -- Says Mothers Are Expected to Do It All

The singer, who is gorgeously gracing the cover of the March issue of Women's Health, opens up about the pressure society puts on women to do it all.

"Mothers are constantly expected to be the nurturers, the givers, the providers of a comfortable home. We're expected to be pregnant, have the kids, breastfeed once we have the babies. And we're expected to look amazing after baby, right?" the mother-of-two tells the mag. "Keep our husbands and boyfriends interested—because we're supposed to get back to sexy and keep things exciting in the bedroom. There's such a long list."

"The Voice" judge, who is mom to Max, 8, and Summer, 17 months, admits that she makes it a priority to take time for herself. "Having children is the ultimate joy, and I love my kids, but women have to find time to nurture themselves," she says. "If someone has a baby, the first thing I'm like is, 'OK, are you taking care of you?'"

Despite outside pressure, Xtina says her kids are "the joy of my life."

"I swear if I hadn't called her Summer I would've called her Joy because she just lights up a room and she illuminates brightness and happiness," she says, referring to her adorable daughter.

While the pop star has already bounced back to pre-baby shape, she explains that it's important to give your body time.

"It takes time, I think, to build confidence and to grow into feeling comfortable in your own skin," she reveals. "It is what you feel inside and how you can exude it and how you own it, sometimes in front of a camera. It's difficult on days when you don't feel it, but it is things like yoga that has helped me to know how to center myself and how to bring myself into that place of awareness and just being able to breathe into my own body."

She credits practicing yoga for helping her find balance. "My whole life, I feel like I've lived many years growing up in this business, from 7-years-old on, and very much a fight-or-flight mode and its things like yoga that brings you outside of that chaotic moment and then draws you inside to connect with what really is meaningful to you and sort of your inner light which then connects with your confidence."

Aguilera has one last message for her female fans: "Don't be too hard on yourself!"

"If you're not feeling confident on a certain day, you have to let that go, and own, 'Yeah, I'm not feeling confident today' and you move on and try to enjoy the best you can," she adds. "I'm not into deprivation; I'm not into suffering into getting a great body or the body that you want. I'm into enjoying life, being conscious and aware, but also breathing into yourself and owning what you got."

Check out Christina's full interview with Women's Health when it hits newsstands on February 9.

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