2023-10-24 09:28:02
Britney Spears (41 years old) narrates details regarding her life, specifically regarding the stage during which her father exercised guardianship over her, in a memoir in which the American singer explicitly addresses what she faced at different stages of her career.
The book The Woman in Me, published in the United States by Simon & Schuster, will be released on Tuesday in regarding 20 countries.
Through these memoirs, which Agence France-Presse was able to browse, the singer achieves her goal of regaining control over her life, following being freed from guardianship that affected the smallest aspects of her life for 13 years, before she got rid of it two years ago.
On Friday, Britney said in a post on Instagram, “I did not write this book to insult anyone. It is the past, and I do not like the headlines of the newspapers I read.”
In the book, Spears does not refrain from mentioning any important detail in her life, starting with the fame she achieved with the song Toxic, all the way to the dark phase of her life, which began in 2007, and her father’s guardianship that was imposed on her for a long period, during which she was deprived of her freedom.
When the reader browses through the memoirs written in a simple and uncomplicated oral style, he is astonished, as the pop star reveals everything she went through without concealing any detail. Veronique Cardi, executive director of Latte House, which publishes the book in France, says, “It is a text by a woman who returned to… “Get up.”
Family tragedy
Thanks to pre-orders, the memoirs top the bestseller list on Amazon in the United States, France, and Spain.
In 300 pages, Spears recounts how her father’s guardianship (with the support of her mother and sister) destroyed her “inner woman.”
In the first pages of the book, the singer discusses her childhood, talking regarding the stigma that accompanied her. Because she “grew up in a poor family,” with an alcoholic father who bullied his family, she wrote, “My family is a tragedy.”
She recalls the fate that befell her paternal grandmother, Jean, as her husband treated her badly, and she committed suicide on the grave of her infant, following 8 years of mourning for him.
The singer feels that what she suffered was similar to what her grandmother faced, whom she had never met, but was told that she looked like her. This feeling was strengthened when she was forcibly placed in a psychiatric hospital and was given lithium.
Before these incidents, Spears began taking dance lessons in New York when she was eleven, to the point that “she no longer had a single minute to live her childhood,” and Spears says of her family, “I came to life to finance their bank account.”
As for the rest of the story, everyone understands it. Spears’ star shone with the song Baby One More Time, and then the singer began living the most beautiful days of her life when she lived with singer Justin Timberlake. However, what the public did not realize was that she became pregnant by Justin, but resorted to an abortion.
Pressures and persecutions
The duo might not withstand the betrayal. While Spears maintained her secrecy in this regard, Justin publicly addressed his separation from the singer, through a video clip for the song Cry Me A River, thanks to which he gained international fame.
Suddenly, the image of the cute schoolgirl that Spears showed in the song “Baby One More Time” changed, and the media began describing her as a “slut,” holding her responsible for Justin’s betrayal and her breakup with him.
As for the dark phase of her life, it began in 2007 when the singer, a mother of two sons, was exposed, along with her life partner, dancer Kevin Federline, to constant pressure and persecution from intrusive photographers.
Then Spears shaved her head in a hair salon in Los Angeles in front of the cameras, and said at the time, “This step is a way of saying, ‘Fuck you.’”
Then, following she became collapsed, she agreed to be placed in a psychiatric hospital. She explains in her memoirs that she accepted this fate so that she might one day get her two sons back.
But she continued to perform concerts, and in 2019, she was forcefully returned to the hospital, but this time she revolted with the help of her fans. In 2021, the judiciary ended her father’s guardianship over her, and her real life began following that.
Regarding the things she wants to do, Spears writes in her memoir, “I want to organize my spiritual life and pay attention to the small details,” and “As for my music career, it can wait.”
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