Britney Spears is setting the record straight about the comparisons made between her and Christina Aguilera. In a new Instagram post on Thursday, August 28, the Princess of Pop pointed out that while people would often liken her to Aguilera during the peak of their stardom in the 2000s, which created tensions between them, Spears actually felt Shakira was closer to being her twin.

"I remember when I first came to LA, I always felt like the youngest and shortest person in the room," the 44-year-old recalled. "Then I met Shakira and she was exactly my size. We were honestly twins," Spears continued, adding that it was even more so than Aguilera, who is actually shorter than her.

The Grammy-winner then recalled meeting Shakira while she was filming the music video for "Whenever, Wherever," released in 2001. The Toxic hitmaker has spoken highly of Shakira over the years, most recently naming the Colombian superstar as the inspiration behind her infamous knife-dancing videos in 2023.

Meanwhile, her relationship with Aguilera has been marked by ups and downs since their days together on the Mickey Mouse Club in 1993. Tensions first began brewing after their iconic 2003 MTV VMAs performance with Madonna, and later deepened when Aguilera appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone with Justin Timberlake, an incident Spears recalled with pain in her 2023 memoir, The Woman in Me.