International pop superstar Britney Spears released her brand new bombshell memoir 'The Woman in Me' on October 24. The book spans over four decades of the singer’s life.
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00:00 Britney Spears released her bombshell memoir, The Woman in Me, on October 24th.
00:05 The book spans over four decades of the singer's life.
00:08 The book begins with Spears discussing her faith and love of singing as she grew up in
00:11 Kentwood, Louisiana.
00:14 Spears also details some of her darkest days from her past, including how she's long felt
00:18 under extreme scrutiny.
00:21 She breaks her silence on how she's been affected by the 14-year conservatorship she was put
00:24 under after mental health challenges in 2008.
00:27 "I had been so infantilized that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself.
00:33 The conservatorship stripped me of my womanhood," Britney says.
00:37 Britney writes that she was considered too sick to choose my own boyfriend, yet somehow
00:40 healthy enough to appear on sitcoms and morning shows and to perform for thousands of people
00:44 in a different part of the world every week.
00:47 She also mentioned her infamous 2003 interview with Diane Sawyer.
00:50 Looking back, the singer says she felt exploited.
00:53 "I felt like I had been exploited set up in front of the whole world," Britney wrote.
00:58 In a different passage, Spears talks about the music video for Justin Timberlake's 2002
01:01 song "Primary River."
01:04 She says that while the media backlash in response to the video painted her as a harlot
01:07 who broke in the heart of America's golden boy, in reality, she was comatose in Louisiana
01:12 and he was happily running around Hollywood.
01:15 In another revelation about her relationship, Spears shared that she became pregnant with
01:19 Timberlake's baby but had an abortion, an experience she kept private for 20 years.
01:24 "It was a surprise, but for me it wasn't a tragedy.
01:27 I love Justin so much.
01:29 I always expected us to have a family together one day.
01:32 This would just be much earlier than I had anticipated," she explains.
01:36 Britney also opened up about her decision to shave her head in 2007.
01:40 "Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of pushing back," Britney writes.
01:48 The book goes on to detail many more shocking truths.
01:50 Get your copy of The Woman in Me today.
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