Once more, Britney Spears is the talk of the town thanks to her much-awaited memoir, The Woman in Me. A glimpse inside the pop star’s life, romances, and public breakdowns that have dominated headlines for years is provided by the book. The revealed snippets included the toxic singer thinking back on her relationship with her ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake. She disclosed that she was forced to terminate the kid because Justin wasn’t ready to become a parent. The singer, 41, also discussed her public breakdown in 2007; she also touched on her conservatorship period and much more.
Abortion, cheating and some shocking revelations
Britney Spears’s new biography, The Women in Me, has several details on her relationship with Justin Timberlake.She went from having an abortion while dating Justin to admitting that he was the one who had cheated on her and how the music video for his song “Cry Me A River” made her a villain.
She penned down, “I loved Justin so much. I always expected us to have a family together one day. This would just be much earlier than I’d anticipated. Justin definitely wasn’t happy about the pregnancy. He said we weren’t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young.”
The 2007 meltdown
Spears has reflected on the very famous public breakdown when she shaved her head and hit a photographer’s car with an umbrella.
Recalling the famous incident, Spears wrote that she was going through a lot back then and, ”didn’t even know how to take care of” herself. In the book, Britney writes, “With my head shaved, everyone was scared of me, even my mom.”
She further added, “Flailing those weeks without my children, I lost it, over and over again. I didn’t even really know how to take care of myself.”The singer has also mentioned in the book that she was ”out of the mind with grief” just after her beloved aunt, Sandra Bridges Covington succumbed to ovarian cancer in 2007, as reported by the People.
2001 VMAs iconic performance in the history of music
The moment Britney danced with a gigantic snake on the VMA stage could be among the most unforgettable in show business history. However, Britney considered it to be one of the scariest experiences of her life.
She wrote, “The plan was for me to sing ‘I’m a Slave 4 U,’ and we decided I would use a snake as a prop. It’s become an iconic moment in VMAs history, but it was even more terrifying than it appeared, all I knew was to look down, because I felt if I looked up and caught its eye, it would kill me.”
Britney rejected a role in The Notebook!
In her book, Britney looked back on her brief acting career and discussed why she’s happy she passed on the main part in the highly anticipated film The Notebook. In her autobiography, Britney discloses that she didn’t have a fantastic time with her 2002 performance in Crossroads, “My problem wasn’t with anyone involved in the production, but with what acting did to my mind. I think I started method acting – only I didn’t know how to break out of my character. I really became this other person…”
“The Notebook casting came down to me and Rachel McAdams, and even though it would have been fun to reconnect with Ryan Gosling after our time on The Mickey Mouse Club, I’m glad I didn’t do it. If I had, instead of working on my album In the Zone I’d have been acting like a 1940s heiress day and night,” Britney added.
When Britney’s father body-shamed her publicly
Britney’s life was extremely difficult throughout her 13-year conservatorship with her father Jamie. The singer spoke of her difficult childhood and how her father had body-shamed her in her book.
“I’d been eyeballed so much growing up, I’d been looked up and down, had people telling me what they thought of my body, since I was a teenager. Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of pushing back,” she writes, per People. “But under the conservatorship I was made to understand that those days were now over. I had to grow my hair out and get back into shape. I had to go to bed early and take whatever medication they told me to take.”
Adding: “If I thought getting criticized about my body in the press was bad, it hurt even more from my own father. He repeatedly told me I looked fat and that I was going to have to do something about it.”
Sharing drinks with mom at eighth grade
When Britney was in the eighth grade, she admitted in her book that she had shared drinks with her mother. The singer revealed that she used to have daiquiris with her mother after leaving The Mickey Mouse Club and going home. Throughout her autobiography, Britney writes, ”For fun, starting when I was in eighth grade, my mom and I would make the two-hour drive from Kentwood to Biloxi, Mississippi, and while we were there, we would drink daiquiris.”
