Rihanna: Chris Brown Collaboration 'Innocent'

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Fans reacted in a furor when Rihanna decided to collaborate musically with her ex Chris Brown, even though the decision triggered a huge downloading frenzy. Rihanna has never made any apologies for the collaboration and now tells Ryan Seacrest the move was "innocent" and she did it for the benefit of her fans.

"You know I reached out to him about doing Birthday Cake because that's the only person that really it made sense to do the record -- just as a musician, despite everything else," Rihanna explained to Seacrest on his KIIS-FM radio show. "You know I thought about rappers and I've done that so many times. And the hottest R&B artist out right now is Chris Brown, so I wanted him on the track."

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Rihanna said that after she approached Chris about Birthday Cake, he suggested that she also team up with him on a remix of his Turn Up the Music. "In turn he was like, 'Why don't you do the remix to my track,' and you know it was a trade-off. We did two records, one for my fans, one for his fans. That way our fans can come together. There shouldn't be a divide. You know it's music and it's innocent."

Rihanna -- whose father was recently quoted as saying the last time he saw his daughter in Barbados he thought she looked "a little fat" -- also revealed in the interview that despite ditching her rigorous workouts due to current career demands, she's actually losing weight on a diet that includes McDonald's food and ice cream.

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"I really have no idea how I'm continuously losing weight," the Grammy winner told Seacrest. "It's actually pretty annoying because now I don't have a butt and no boobs -- and I already had no boobs to start with. So annoying, and I'm eating everything. People think I'm not eating, I'm eating, and I'm eating McDonald's at 3 a.m. and it's an issue, I'm eating ice cream."

Rihanna also talked about her successful ongoing fashion collection for Armani and said she's currently meeting with some of her favorite designers to learn all she can about the business so she can design and launch her own fashion line in the near future.

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