Contributed anonymously:
Michelle Branch defended her controversial Maxim magazine spread in the winter 2003 issue of Echo magazine, taking a minor dig at Christina Aguilera in the process. “It’s not a big deal at all,” she says of the Maxim spread. “I’m a musician, and everyone knows this. I can’t make everyone happy, so I just do what I do and please myself. It wasn’t like I was laying there, butt-naked with a guitar covering my goods. [In my work] I’ve never done anything lewd. It was a fun time and I don’t regret it in the least.”