Key revelations include the at-home abortion Spears underwent at the urging of then-boyfriend Justin Timberlake, the casual drinking she engaged in with her mother as a young teen (even as her father was gripped by alcoholism), and the sordid details of the rehab stints she endured at the behest of her father, who insisted she wasn’t mentally well enough to drink coffee or drive a car even as he profited from the Las Vegas residencies he signed her up for. The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. Out of many candidates for villains of the book, Timberlake included, perhaps the worst are the careless journalists of the late 1990s and early 2000s, who indulged Timberlake while vilifying Spears. Spears says she couldn’t separate herself from the Crossroads character and decided to stop acting as a result.

Spears gave birth to sons Sean Preston and Jayden James within two years, and she describes the difficulties they all faced living in the spotlight. It’s the holiday season, so it’s probably cold out wherever you are, and that means you’re ready to hunker down with just the right book and read your way to tomorrow. Spears goes on to share a story about her mother allowing her to drink alcohol “for fun” when she was in the eighth grade, and reveals that she was body-shamed by her father.The Woman in Me tells a focused story that makes inarguable the ties between patriarchy and exploitation, and deserves to be read as a cautionary tale and an indictment, not a grab-bag of tabloid revelations. Airlines have added flights bound for Super Bowl host city Las Vegas with references to Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes. Hopefully I can enlighten people who feel particularly alone in most cases or hurt or misunderstood! According to Deadline, major film and TV studios are 'circling' the memoir and have already placed bids for the rights to it - mere weeks after the book's release.

This brings me to another of these cruel people… Justin Timberlake, he may have been young and stupid and not aware of his dumb moves, but he is a grown man now, it’s not too late to speak up and apologize if he hasn’t done so already. She had been teasing the tell-all since successfully terminating her 13-year conservatorship in November 2021. Biography: Multi-platinum, Grammy Award winning pop icon Britney Spears is one of the most successful and celebrated entertainers in music history, with more than 100 million records sold worldwide. A very other-worldly novel that explores ideas of loss and grief both on a macroscopic and microscopic level and the kinds of collateral damage that can arise from this within families.As one of the most recognizable cultural icons, Britney Spears has been through a gauntlet, and here she steps out and reclaims her space and her voice with a deeply moving memoir that details her journey through fame and family and the endurance and perseverance required to keep going. Britney made me see that celebrities are more than just our entertainment and that was long before this book came out and now after reading it, it fully cemented that in me. Some key moments are already public knowledge, but Williams's narration gives added perspective on the trauma, stress, and pressure Spears endured for so many years. Named a Best Book of the Year by Elle, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, NPR, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, and more! I’ve been a lifelong reader, but my other love has always been music (don’t tell books or my boss that I might love music a little bit more).

About half of the memoir is dedicated to her infamous 13-year conservatorship—how she was a prisoner in her own home, forcibly hospitalized and medicated, and made to work past most people's breaking point. I’d been looked up and down, had people telling me what they thought of my body, since I was a teenager. If I had, instead of working on my album In the Zone I’d have been acting like a 1940s heiress day and night. Review Hilarious, ribald, eye-popping, unforgettable, will make you laugh out loud ― Daily Mail A whirlwind of witticisms and of funny tales, both short and tall .The amount of celebs who have had a bad end because people didn't do what was best for the person for fear of being cut off, imagine the other end, they have full control of the person and substantial ability to abuse/spend their finances. Language ‏ : ‎ English Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 544 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1529363047 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1529363043 Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16 x 4. Graphic artificial intelligence-generated images of superstar Taylor Swift, known as "deepfakes," have been circulating on social media. Japan's SLIM lunar lander tipped over on touchdown, but still captured imagery of the moon while demonstrating high-precision landing technology. The first excerpt from the pop star’s highly anticipated book came just a week before its official release.