Britney Spears’s highly anticipated memoir, “The Woman in Me,” was released today. The book is filled with shocking and tragic revelations about the pop princess’s life.
Britney Spears is angry with good reason. Between 2007 and 2008, she had a very public breakdown and was forced into a mental health facility.
Britney Spears’s Conservatorship Was Controlling and Abusive
The courts placed her under a 13-year-long conservatorship that was more like a prison sentence. In February 2008, her father, Jamie Spears, took over her life.
The conservatorship was controlling, abusive, and all-around brutal and inhumane for Britney to endure. Jamie Spears controlled Britney‘s finances. Her father wouldn’t allow her to get married or have a baby. He even decided who her friends were.
She also had to eat what she was told, avoid certain foods, take the medications she was told to, wasn’t allowed to drink coffee or alcohol, and was told when to go to bed and get up in the morning.
Her father chose where she lived; she wasn’t allowed to make her own career decisions and depended on her father to tell her what clothes to wear.
Her three-year romance with fellow pop icon Justin Timberlake ended with him breaking up with her via text message.
Their breakup occurred after she became pregnant with his child, and he told her he didn’t want to be a father and coerced her to have an abortion, which they performed secretly at home to avoid anyone finding out.
As Britney was uncontrollably sobbing in pain on the bathroom floor, Timberlake thought it would be a good idea to strum his guitar to help “soothe” her.
“The Woman in Me” Helped Britney Heal
After the two split up, Justin trash-talked about Britney to any tabloid that would listen. Britney was vilified for their breakup.
Spears also said that her Father continually body-shamed her throughout the conservatorship. It is due to the abuse she endured that she lost her “creative spark.”
In one of the most terrifying moments of Britney Spears’s life, when her father took control of her, he pushed a bowl of receipts in her office off the desk and viciously declared, “I’m Britney Spears now.” This statement meant he would make every decision for her, and she would lose her freedom.
Writing “The Woman in Me” no doubt helped her heal and release some pent-up and challenging emotions. She has been holding on to tragedy, and hopefully, she can put closure to those parts of her life now.
The memoir has received much media attention, generating headline after headline. It is said to be raw and explosive, not focused so much on the glory of her fame and fortune but the truth behind the curtain.
The book has a happy ending, with her succeeding in ending the conservatorship that had ruled her existence for years.
The book hit shelves today and is available anywhere books are sold. Gallery Books is the book’s publisher and calls it a “brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope.”
Britney earned a cool $15 million for the book. “The Woman in Me,” with its emotional honesty and stunning revelations, is said to be worth every penny. You be the judge.
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