Aggressive tabloids, adultery and an abortion: today the memoirs of pop icon Britney Spears are released. In The Woman in Me the singer writes about her public life and the guardianship in which she was imprisoned for thirteen years. NU.nl lists all the revelations for you.
Spears has been in the spotlight since she was ten. As a girl she sings in the television program The Mickey Mouse Club. According to Spears, the media already treats her in a special way. She remembers an interview in which the presenter asks if she has a boyfriend. When she says she doesn’t have a boyfriend because boys “are mean”, the presenter responds: “I’m not mean! What do you think of me (as a boyfriend, ed.)?”
The singer hopes to have a “normal life” when the program is stopped. But that is short-lived. At the age of fifteen, Spears got a record deal and shortly afterwards she made her first album with hits such as Baby One More Time in (You Drive Me) Crazy. To promote the album, she goes on tour with boy band *NSYNC.
When she and *NSYNC singer Justin Timberlake get into a relationship, they are increasingly invited to talk shows as a couple. “I noticed that I was getting completely different questions than Justin. Everyone kept making strange comments about my breasts. Everyone also always wanted to know if I had had plastic surgery.” Due to the pressure that the singer experiences during this period, she starts using Prozac.
During her relationship with Timberlake, Spears finds out she is pregnant. “It was a surprise, but for me it wasn’t a tragedy. I loved Justin so much. I always expected that one day we would have a family together.” But Timberlake is not happy with the pregnancy and convinces his girlfriend to have an abortion. If the singer had made the decision on her own, she said she would never have done it.
Britney Spears and her boyfriend Justin Timberlake in 2002. Photo: ANP
Timberlake ends the relationship with a message. Shortly afterwards the singer creates the song Cry Me a River. In the accompanying clip, a woman (who looks like Spears) is cheating. “The media looked at me as a whore at the heart of America’s golden boy had broken. In reality, I lay in bed broken with grief and happily skipped through Hollywood.”
After the break, the singer, under pressure from her father and management team, agrees to an interview with Diane Sawyer. In the interview, Sawyer pressures her to reveal what caused her “so much pain” to Timberlake. Spears remembers the interview as a turning point. “I felt like I was being exploited in front of the world.” In the book, the singer confirms that she kissed choreographer Wade Robson during her relationship with Timberlake. But Spears says her behavior was the result of rumors of Timberlake’s infidelity.
When Spears shaved off her hair in 2007 and attacked paparazzi with an umbrella, she made all the headlines. According to the artist, she is then in a dark period. She has just lost her aunt, is in the middle of a divorce and custody battle with her ex Kevin Federline and is constantly being followed by photographers. “Everyone was scared of me, even my mother,” Spears recalls. “I lost myself, because my children were not with me. And I didn’t know how to take care of myself. I behaved like a child.”
Due to a mental breakdown of Toxicsinger in 2008 to be under her father’s guardianship. “According to him, I was too sick to even choose my own boyfriend. But I did have to appear on television and perform in front of thousands of people on the other side of the world.” According to Spears, during this period her father said, “I’m Britney Spears now.”
If the singer wants to continue seeing her children, she must cooperate. “I had to give up my freedom in exchange for naps with my kids. I was willing to make that deal.”
“I went from being a party animal to being a nun. Security guards handed me envelopes of medicine and watched me take them. They put parental controls on my iPhone. Everything was scrutinized and monitored.”
The singer with her children in 2015. Photo: NL Image
In 2021, the judge will end the guardianship after years. Spears’ father no longer has any say in her life or finances. That is a great relief for the artist. “The man who scared me as a child and later ruled over me, who undermined my self-confidence more than anyone else, was no longer in control of my life. But the emotional and physical damage remains.”
Spears has no plans to resume her music career. “Now it’s time for me to find myself.”
2023-10-24 12:02:49
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