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Britney Spears Tells Her Horror Story
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Britney Spears Tells Her Horror Story

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter.The celebrity memoir has long been a place for public figures to set the record straight on the story of their lives. By any measure, Britney Spears’s life, as detailed in her new book, “The Woman in Me,” is rich material. The pop star rose to fame in the early two-thousands, and, after enduring a series of mental-health crises, was placed in a conservatorship through which her father controlled almost every aspect of her day-to-day existence. On this episode of Critics at Large, the staff writers Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz discuss the “horror story” that emerges in the memoir as the teen-aged Spears is betrayed by everyone around her: a fa...
“The Woman in Me,” Reviewed: What Britney Spears’s Memoir Has to Say
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“The Woman in Me,” Reviewed: What Britney Spears’s Memoir Has to Say

Our era runs on biography. Stories—in film adaptations, novels, and pop songs alike—are received as the clarion calls of so many “voices.” The myth of an unencumbered, authentic voice persists. Even if it’s never quite found, we find value in the searching. It was foreseeable, then, that readers would make much of a new memoir from the pop star Britney Spears, whose prevailing story for much of her adult life has been one of silencing.We know the story by now. In 2008, after a series of messy public episodes, zealously documented by the tabloid press, Spears was hospitalized in a psychiatric facility and her father successfully petitioned a California court for a conservatorship, deeming Spears unfit to make personal and financial decisions on her own behalf. But Spears did not disappear ...
Britney Spears Reportedly Teases Possible Second Memoir: ‘Get Ready’
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Britney Spears Reportedly Teases Possible Second Memoir: ‘Get Ready’

Britney Spears has reportedly hinted that a second volume of her bombshell memoir could be on the way next year. The pop star’s book, “The Woman in Me,” which details her journey to superstardom and the 13-year conservatorship helmed by her estranged father, has been making waves since earlier this month. Following its release last week, Spears hit up Instagram to claim it’s “the highest selling celebrity memoir in history” in an Instagram post that appears to have since been deleted, Billboard reports.Spears, 41, told fans Saturday on social media that a follow-up to her memoir is in the works in another since-deleted Instagram post, according to Variety. “Humor is the cure to everything !!! Play on !!! Volume 2 will be released next year … get ready!,” she reportedly captioned her post....
Britney Spears reveals in new memoir why she “went along” with conservatorship: “One very good reason”
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Britney Spears reveals in new memoir why she “went along” with conservatorship: “One very good reason”

Britney Spears says she "went along" with a court-ordered conservatorship that ended up controlling her life for nearly 14 years for "one very good reason.""I did it for my kids," she reveals in her new memoir, "The Woman in Me," which comes out Tuesday.Spears has two children, Jayden and Sean Preston, with her ex-husband Kevin Federline. She temporarily lost custody of them in 2007, after divorcing Federline and struggling with mental health issues. In 2008, a California judge placed Spears under a conservatorship, and her father Jamie Spears took control of her personal life and finances.  "Because I played by the rules, I was reunited with my boys," Spears writes in her memoir. The conservatorship, she said, governed every aspect of her life — includ...
Britney Spears shares postpartum struggle in new memoir, “The Woman in Me”
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Britney Spears shares postpartum struggle in new memoir, “The Woman in Me”

Britney Spears shares postpartum struggle in new memoir, "The Woman in Me" - CBS News Watch CBS News In her new memoir, "The Woman in Me," out Tuesday, Britney Spears shares new details about her relationship with her family, her conservatorship, and the postpartum depression she says she experienced after giving birth to her two sons. Jamie Yuccas reports. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On
Britney Spears Shares Why She Posts Naked Photos On Social Media In New Memoir
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Britney Spears Shares Why She Posts Naked Photos On Social Media In New Memoir

Britney Spears is opening up about why she likes to post risqué snapshots of herself on her Instagram account.The pop star’s explanation comes as excerpts of her new memoir, “The Woman in Me,” have been making headlines this week. The book’s many bombshell revelations, including her becoming pregnant by Justin Timberlake and getting an abortion at the peak of their famous relationship, arrive two years following her 13-year conservatorship that stripped away her freedom. In an excerpt from her book per The New York Times, the singer, 40, acknowledged that while many of her followers might find her skin-baring posts unconventional, she gets “joy” from “posing the way I feel sexy”.“I know that a lot of people don’t understand why I love taking pictures of myself naked or in new dresses,” sh...
How Justin Timberlake Reportedly Responded To Britney Spears’ Memoir Revelations
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How Justin Timberlake Reportedly Responded To Britney Spears’ Memoir Revelations

"It was a surprise, but for me, it wasn’t a tragedy," Britney writes about the pregnancy. "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."Ron Galella, Ltd. / Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n; n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js'); fbq('init', '1621685564716533'); fbq('track', "PageView"); var _fbPartnerID = null; if (_fbPartne...
Britney Spears says in new memoir she had an abortion while dating Justin Timberlake
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Britney Spears says in new memoir she had an abortion while dating Justin Timberlake

Britney Spears says in new memoir she had an abortion while dating Justin Timberlake - CBS News Watch CBS News Britney Spears says in her new memoir, "The Woman in Me," she had an abortion while dating Justin Timberlake. CBS News' Jamie Yuccas has the story. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On
Britney Spears Reveals How ‘Terrifying’ VMAs Duet With Giant Snake Really Was
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Britney Spears Reveals How ‘Terrifying’ VMAs Duet With Giant Snake Really Was

Britney Spears is reflecting on one of the most iconic moments of her career.While fans undoubtedly remember her performing “I’m a Slave 4 U” with an albino Burmese python wrapped around her shoulders, Spears shares in her upcoming memoir what that iconic moment at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards actually felt like — and says it was genuinely “terrifying.”“The plan was for me to sing ‘I’m a Slave 4 U,’ and we decided I would use a snake as a prop,” writes Spears in an excerpt of her memoir, “The Woman in Me,” published Tuesday by People.“It’s become an iconic moment in VMAs history, but it was even more terrifying than it appeared,” she continues. “All I knew was to look down, because I felt if I looked up and caught its eye, it would kill me.”Despite a surprise appearance by Michael Jack...