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  • Sam Asghari Reacts To Britney Spears Calling Him A ‘Gift From God’ In Her Memoir

    Sam Asghari Reacts To Britney Spears Calling Him A ‘Gift From God’ In Her Memoir

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    Sam Asghari appears to be thrilled about a particular part of his ex Britney Spears’ new memoir.

    On Thursday, the actor spoke with TMZ about the pop star calling him a “gift from God” in her newly released book, “The Woman in Me.”

    “I have an appreciation for how stable he is,” Spears wrote of Asghari in the book, according to an excerpt published by People. “I love that he doesn’t drink. He’s a gift from God.”

    “That made me smile, to be honest,” the Iranian American model told TMZ.

    In her memoir, Spears details her first encounter with Asghari, who was cast as her love interest in a music video.

    “The first time I saw Hesam Asghari on the set of my video for “Slumber Party,” I knew I wanted him in my life immediately. I was instantly smitten. The chemistry with us in the beginning was insane. We couldn’t keep our hands off each other,” Spears wrote. “He called me his lioness.”

    Spears’ praise for Asghari might come as a surprise to some considering that the two separated before her memoir came out on Tuesday. He filed for divorce from Spears over the summer after only 14 months of marriage, citing “irreconcilable differences,” according to court records.

    Yet the fitness trainer gushed about the “Toxic” crooner and her book, which details her rise to superstardom and the 13-year conservatorship spearheaded by her estranged father, Jamie Spears.

    “I’m freaking proud of her,” Asghari told TMZ. “I hope she takes over the world.”

    Asghari’s reps didn’t immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.

    Britney Spears and Sam Asghari called it quits after 14 months of marriage.

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    Back in August, the princess of pop broke her silence about her breakup with Asghari in an Instagram post.

    “As everyone knows, Hesam and I are no longer together … 6 years is a long time to be with someone so, I’m a little shocked but … I’m not here to explain why because its honestly nobody’s business !!!” Spears wrote.

    She also thanked fans for their heartfelt messages before warning that her “Instagram may seem perfect but it’s far from reality.”

    Spears’ memoir has made headlines for its bombshell revelations about her life, including the abortion she had amid her rocky romance with fellow pop star Justin Timberlake and what pushed her to shave her head in 2007.

    Earlier this week, she celebrated her book’s success in an Instagram post that appears to have since been deleted, claiming that the viral memoir had already broken records.

    “It’s happening,” Spears captioned the post, Billboard reported. “My book is the highest selling celebrity memoir in history and it’s only day 1 !!! Thank you to the fans who have been so supportive !!! Love you all.”

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  • Britney Spears Fast Facts | CNN

    Britney Spears Fast Facts | CNN

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    Here is a look at the life of Britney Spears, pop singer and Grammy Award winner.

    Birth date: December 2, 1981

    Birth place: McComb, Mississippi

    Birth name: Britney Jean Spears

    Father: Jamie Spears, former building contractor and chef

    Mother: Lynne (Bridges) Spears

    Marriages: Sam Asghari (June 9, 2022 – present); Kevin Federline (September 18, 2004-July 30, 2007, divorced); Jason Alexander (January 3, 2004-January 5, 2004, annulled after 55 hours)

    Children: with Kevin Federline: Jayden James, September 2006 and Sean Preston, September 2005

    Number one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart include: “Baby, One More Time” in 1999, “Womanizer” in 2008, “3” in 2009 (debut), and “Hold It Against Me” in 2011 (debut).

    Six albums have reached #1 on the Billboard 200 chart: “Baby One More Time” (1999), “Oops!…. I Did It Again” (2000), “Britney” (2001), “In the Zone” (2003), “Circus” (2008), and “Femme Fatale” (2011).

    Has won one Grammy and has been nominated for eight.

    1993-1994 – Cast member on “The Mickey Mouse Club.”

    1997 – Signs a contract with Jive Records at age 15.

    January 12, 1999 – Releases her debut album “…Baby One More Time.”

    May 16, 2000 – Releases her second album “Oops!…I Did It Again.”

    2002 – Is named Hollywood’s Most Powerful Celebrity by Forbes magazine.

    November 17, 2003 – Receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

    February 13, 2005 – Wins a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording for “Toxic.”

    February 16, 2007 – Shaves her head at a beauty parlor in Tarzana, California.

    October 1, 2007 – Temporarily loses physical custody of her children after failing to attend court hearings.

    January 3, 2008 – Spears is hospitalized over issues involving the custody of her children. Kevin Federline, her ex-husband, is awarded sole custody on January 4, 2008.

    February 1, 2008 – A Los Angeles court grants temporary conservatorship to Spears’ father, Jamie Spears, after Spears is taken to a hospital and deemed unable to take care of herself.

    July 18, 2008 – In a custody agreement, Spears gives Federline sole custody of the children, but retains visitation rights.

    August 2008 – Becoming Britney, a musical based on her life, debuts at the New York International Fringe Festival.

    October 28, 2008 – Jamie Spears is granted permanent conservatorship of his daughter’s affairs.

    February 3, 2009 – Sam Lutfi, Spears’ former manager, sues Spears and her parents for defamation and breach of contract in Los Angeles Superior Court. A judge dismisses the lawsuit on November 1, 2012.

    September 8, 2010 – Is accused of sexual harassment and sued by her former bodyguard, Fernando Flores. The lawsuit is settled in March 2012.

    January 11, 2011 – Her single, “Hold It Against Me,” is released and debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

    March 30, 2011 – A $10 million lawsuit is filed by Brand Sense Partners against Spears and her father for breach of contract relating to a perfume deal between Spears and the Elizabeth Arden company. The lawsuit is settled in February 2012.

    May 15, 2012 – “The X Factor USA” announces that Spears, along with Demi Lovato, will join Simon Cowell and L.A. Reid on “The X Factor” judging panel. On January 11, 2013, Spears announces that she will not be returning as a judge.

    September 17, 2013 – Spears announces that she will do a two-year residency at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas with a show titled “Britney: Piece of Me.” The show begins its run December 27.

    September 2014 – Releases her own lingerie line, “Intimate Britney Spears.”

    November 5, 2014 – Clark County, Nevada, proclaims November 5th as “Britney Day” on the Las Vegas Strip.

    September 9, 2015 – Spears announces that she has extended her residency at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas for two more years.

    August 26, 2016 – Spears’ ninth studio album, Glory, is released.

    April 12, 2018 – Spears is honored at the GLAAD Media Awards as the recipient of the Vanguard Award, an award that goes to a performer for making a difference in promoting and supporting equality.

    January 4, 2019 – Announces that she is going on an indefinite work hiatus in order to focus on her family due to her father’s health issues.

    April 3, 2019 – Spears announces that she is taking “me time” after it is reported that she has checked into a mental health facility to cope with her father’s health issues. On April 25, Spears checks out of the mental health treatment facility after undertaking an “all-encompassing wellness treatment.”

    June 13, 2019 – Spears and her family are granted a five-year restraining order against Lutfi.

    April 29, 2020 – Spears announces that she accidentally burned down her home gym with candles.

    November 10, 2020 – Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny declines Spears’ application to remove her father as her conservator, but says she would consider petitions “down the road” to remove her father as the head of her estate. The move comes amid the #FreeBritney social media movement, driven by some fans who believe she is a prisoner in her own home because of the court-ordered conservatorship.

    June 23, 2021 – Spears appears remotely in court to request her court-ordered conservatorship be lifted, calling it “abusive.” During the hearing, she speaks for more than 20 minutes, saying she felt she had been forced to perform, was given no privacy and was made to use birth control, take medication and attend therapy sessions against her will.

    July 6, 2021 – Spears’ longtime manager Larry Rudolph resigns, citing the singer’s desire to retire. On the same day, Samuel D. Ingham, a court-appointed attorney who has represented Spears for the entirety of her almost 13-year conservatorship, submits a petition to resign from his position, according to a court filing obtained by CNN.

    July 14, 2021 – Judge Penny accepts Ingham’s resignation, along with the resignation of Bessemer Trust, a wealth management firm that had been appointed co-conservator of the singer’s estate. Spears is granted permission to hire her own attorney. During a hearing, Spears calls for her father to be charged with conservatorship abuse.

    August 12, 2021 – Jamie Spears signals in a legal response that he intends to step down as conservator of the singer’s estate, according to a prepared copy of the response obtained by CNN.

    September 1, 2021 – The Ventura County District Attorney’s Office says in a press release they decline to file charges against Spears. Last month Spears’ housekeeper alleged that the singer struck a cell phone out of her hand during an argument over the veterinary care of her dog.

    September 7, 2021 – Spears’ father files a petition to terminate the 13-year court-ordered conservatorship. On September 29, a Los Angeles judge suspends Jamie Spears as conservator of his daughter’s estate, and designates a temporary replacement selected by the singer and her attorney to oversee her finances. On November 12, a Los Angeles judge terminates Spears’ 13-year conservatorship.

    September 12, 2021 – Spears announces her engagement to boyfriend Sam Asghari in an Instagram post.

    January 18, 2022 – Spears’ lawyer, Mathew Rosengart, sends a legal cease-and-desist letter to the singer’s younger sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, regarding her new memoir, “Things I Should Have Said.” In Rosengart’s letter, he calls the book “ill-timed” and that it makes “misleading or outrageous claims about her.”

    January 19, 2022 – Judge Penny rules against a request from Spears’ father to set aside money from her $60 million estate in a reserve to potentially cover legal fees, which would include her father’s.

    February 21, 2022 – It is revealed that Spears has signed a contract with Simon & Schuster to write a book about her life. The deal is valued at more than $15 million.

    April 11, 2022 – Spears announces that she and Asghari are expecting a baby. The following month, the pair announce the loss of the pregnancy.

    August 26, 2022 – Spears and Elton John release “Hold Me Closer,” an EDM reimagining of John’s 1971 hit “Tiny Dancer.” The song marks Spears’ first new release since her 13-year conservatorship ended.

    August 16, 2023 – Asghari files for divorce.

    October 24, 2023 – Spears’ memoir, “The Woman In Me,” is released.

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  • Not Justin Ken’ing Britney While She Was Having An Abortion

    Not Justin Ken’ing Britney While She Was Having An Abortion

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    There is a very particular moment in Britney Spears’ revelatory The Woman In Me, during which she at last has the courage to rehash having an abortion in 2000. The baby, of course, would have been Justin Timberlake’s. Justin, at that time, however, was riding a bit too high on the crest of his success with NSYNC, and fatherhood would only signal a “death sentence” with regard to his ability to sleep around furthering his burgeoning prosperity. Britney, on the other hand, always knew she wanted to have a family. Repeatedly, this has come up in interviews with her from the very start of her career. 

    So, although it might have been “too soon” for Timberlake, from Spears’ perspective, “It was a surprise, but for me it wasn’t a tragedy. 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.” Timberlake did not see it that way, he being the one who insisted that Spears “get rid of it.” This, to be sure, is more than somewhat ironic considering how public he’s been about his pro-choice stance. And yes, having the choice doesn’t just refer to the choice to abort, but the choice to carry out a pregnancy. Timberlake did not allow that choice for Spears, bulldozing her into doing what he wanted because it would have damaged his reputation (“If he didn’t want to become a father, I didn’t feel like I had much of a choice. I wouldn’t want to push him into something he didn’t want. Our relationship was too important to me”). And yet, years later, at a rally for Barack Obama, Timberlake declared next to his new girlfriend, Jessica Biel, “Nobody should be able to say what you can do with your body… I give Jess the right to choose where we go to eat all the time. The funny thing is, what the woman chooses is usually right.” First of all, vom, and second, it’s cruelly apparent that he didn’t believe Spears deserved the same “approach.” And gee, how kind of Timberlake to “give the right to choose” to Biel. Which was more than could be said for Britney. 

    It was already bad enough that, as usual, she was pushed and pressured into doing something she didn’t want to do, but, to add insult to injury, Spears recalls that while she was in agonizing pain on the floor of the bathroom, Timberlake thought it would be a great idea to come in and start playing his guitar to soothe her. Or, as she puts it, “At some point he thought maybe music would help, so he got his guitar and he lay there with me strumming it.” Yes, that’s correct, while Spears was doubled over in agony, Timberlake thought, “Hey, let me play my guitar for her. That makes sense. My music is all-healing.” There’s a reason “strumming it” sounds like “stroking it,” because all Timberlake was doing by playing his guitar in that moment was stroking his own ego with a masturbatory flourish. Never mind that Spears was on the verge of total panic because of the pain, and her awareness that Timberlake would not take her to the hospital if anything went wrong in order to guard his “dirty secret” at all costs. 

    Spears was also sure to make it clear that she was unsure about “her” (read: his) decision, and that, even to this day, she questions if it was right, remarking, “I don’t know if that was the right decision. If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it.” She added, “We also decided on something that in retrospect wound up being, in my view, wrong, and that was that I should not go to a doctor or to a hospital to have the abortion. It was important that no one find out about the pregnancy or the abortion, which meant doing everything at home.” Thus, not only was Spears strongarmed into the entire ordeal, she didn’t even get the luxury of having access to more complete, professional medical care for the procedure—all because JT would be “shamed.” Even though, in the end, Spears would have been the one to bear the brunt of the inevitable media backlash had the news actually leaked. For, as she also points out, “There’s always been more leeway in Hollywood for men than for women.” Plus, as we saw in 2002, everyone automatically sided with the false narrative Timberlake painted via “Cry Me A River” and its video.

    Spears’ description of the breakup that ensued not long after her abortion was one characterized by being “clinically in shock.” However, in Spears’ position on the bathroom floor, she might also have been clinically in shock as a result of seeing Timberlake sit down next to her and play guitar in response to her visible physical torment. A scene she illustrates by recalling, “…I took the little pills. Soon I started having excruciating cramps. I went into the bathroom and stayed there for hours, lying on the floor, sobbing and screaming. They should’ve numbed me with something, I thought. I wanted some kind of anesthesia. I wanted to go to the doctor. I was so scared. I lay there wondering if I was going to die.”

    For Timberlake to engage in the peak Ken behavior of playing his guitar in response to that exemplifies the worst kind of toxic masculinity. The kind that assumes it is gentle and caring when, actually, it is entirely narcissistic and self-serving. And so, with just one sentence, clearly drenched with shade, Spears recalls her own Barbie-esque hell. One in which the Ken of the scenario, Justin, seriously thought the thing that would help her most of all was his guitar-playing. 

    Obviously, there’s a good reason for writer-director Greta Gerwig to have so heavily featured this male trope in Barbie. For there have been scores upon scores of women subjected to this same form of musical abuse posing as…what? Romantic prowess? Sensitive boy swagger? Who the fuck knows what’s actually going through a man’s head when he decides that “strumming some tunes” is somehow the fulfillment of the ultimate female fantasy.

    All that can be known for sure is that the least consoling thing to happen while a girl is having an at-home abortion is being “Ken’d” with some guitar. Merely adding to how viable the tagline, “She’s everything. He’s just Ken” truly is. And yet, for whatever reason, it still takes the Barbies of the world too long to understand that they don’t need Ken, it’s the other way around. Or, as Justin would phrase it, “You were my sun/You were my earth.”

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  • Britney Spears Just Launched Inspiring “Legendary Quote” Merch Line

    Britney Spears Just Launched Inspiring “Legendary Quote” Merch Line

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    One day after releasing her memoir, “The Woman in Me,” Britney Spears is giving her fans another gift. The star has released a line of merch called the “Legendary Quote” collection, which features some of her most memorable quotes and lyrics — which means you can grab a shirt that reads “You’d better work, b*tch!” or a hat emblazoned with the quote, “Stronger than yesterday.” Additional designs include a hoodie that reads, “Only while performing was I truly invincible” and a T-shirt reading “Take on the music.” In tandem with the merch launch, Spears is also rereleasing her first ever fragrance, Curious by Britney Spears, which can be purchased along with her book on Amazon. The merch can be purchased on Spears’s website.

    Spears’s memoir, which was released on Oct. 24, gave fans an intimate window into her upbringing, rise to fame, romances, and eventual 13-year conservatorship, unveiling disturbing new details about what Spears claims she was subjected to. She also reflected on everything from her natural hair color — which, she revealed in the memoir, is black — to her triumphant collaboration with Elton John, “Hold Me Closer.”

    For Spears, the memoir was clearly a chance to finally tell her story after so many years of being controlled by someone else. “It’s time for me not to be someone who other people want,” she writes at the end of the book, making her point clear.

    To shop some of our favorite pieces from Spears’s merch drop, keep scrolling.

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  • A Timeline of Britney Spears and Sam Asghari’s Relationship

    A Timeline of Britney Spears and Sam Asghari’s Relationship

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    Britney Spears’s memoir “The Woman in Me” traces her life, from her early childhood to her rise to fame and conservatorship. It doesn’t, however, cover one recent major event in Spears’s life — her split from Sam Asghari.

    Back in August, it was revealed that Spears and Asghari were going their separate ways after one year of marriage. The two met in 2016 on the set of the pop star’s music video for “Slumber Party,” and in her memoir, Spears writes that she knew she wanted Asghari in her life “immediately.” Just two months before Spears’s 13-year conservatorship was terminated in November 2021, the longtime couple announced their engagement on Instagram. “I can’t f*cking believe it 💍💍💍💍💍💍❣️!!!!!!,” the singer captioned a video featuring her custom diamond engagement ring.

    On April 11, 2022, Spears and Asghari announced that they were expecting their first child together. The latter spoke about the pregnancy on Instagram, writing, “Fatherhood is something i have always looked forward to and i don’t take lightly. It is the most important job i will ever do.” A month after their announcement, though, the couple shared that they experienced a pregnancy loss. They later revealed that they were “moving forward” with their future and still planned to expand their family. Though Spears doesn’t often mention Asghari in her memoir, she does briefly touch on that event, saying that she was “devastated” by the loss.

    On June 9, 2022, after five years of dating and less than one year of being engaged, Spears and Asghari tied the knot in an intimate wedding ceremony in Los Angeles. A source told People that the singer cried several times on her big day — all “happy tears.”

    However, on Aug. 16, Asghari filed for divorce from Spears, citing irreconcilable differences, per court documents obtained by POPSUGAR. Asghari noted their date of separation as July 28, 2023. Reps for Spears and Asghari did not respond to POPSUGAR’s requests for comments at the time.

    Ahead, take a look at every big moment in Spears and Asghari’s relationship timeline.

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  • Britney Spears’ Biggest ‘The Woman in Me’ Revelations, From the Film Role She Regrets Turning Down to Her Relationship With Sister Jamie Lynn

    Britney Spears’ Biggest ‘The Woman in Me’ Revelations, From the Film Role She Regrets Turning Down to Her Relationship With Sister Jamie Lynn

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    Britney Spears’ tell-all, “The Woman in Me,” is finally here. In the 275-page memoir, Spears chronicles her journey through pop stardom and her highly publicized conservatorship battle — without skimping on the details.

    The book is dedicated to her two sons, but the pop icon penned a special note to her fans in the acknowledgements: “You have my heart and gratitude forever. This book is for you.”

    Spears credits her fans with giving her strength in the darkest hours of her fight for freedom. “I don’t think people knew how much the #FreeBritney movement meant to me, especially in the beginning,” she writes.

    “I was not okay, not at all. And the fact that my friends and my fans sensed what was happening and did all that for me, that’s a debt I can never repay. If you stood up for me when I couldn’t stand up for myself: from the bottom of my heart, thank you.”

    Read on for the five biggest revelations from the gripping page-turner.

    She was almost in ‘Chicago’ – and has complicated feelings about acting

    During her first film, “Crossroads,” Spears says she inadvertently began Method acting. “It’s like a cloud or something came over me and I just became this girl named Lucy.” It took her months to break free of her character’s persona, making her feel somewhat relieved when she lost out on the lead role in “The Notebook” to Rachel McAdams.

    “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.”

    There is one role she regrets turning down, though. She was offered a part in the 2002 film adaptation of “Chicago” as “a villain who kills a man, and sings and dances while doing it, too.”

    “I should’ve done it. I had power back then; I wish I’d used it more thoughtfully, been more rebellious,” she writes. “If only I’d been brave enough not to stay in my safe zone, done more things that weren’t just within what I knew. But I was committed to not rocking the boat, and to not complaining even when something upset me.”

    She had an abortion after becoming pregnant with Justin Timberlake’s baby

    Spears details the early days of her relationship with Justin Timberlake, from their first kiss at a “Mickey Mouse Club” party to their iconic denim-on-denim looks from the 2001 American Music Awards. She says things weren’t as perfect as they seemed, though, writing, “There were a couple of times in our relationship when I knew Justin had cheated on me.”

    She didn’t confront him about the infidelity, but she did have her own tryst with choreographer Wade Robson, dancing and making out with him at a bar. She confessed to Timberlake, and they decided to stay together.

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    When she became pregnant, Spears says, “It was a surprise, but for me it wasn’t a tragedy,” adding that she always wanted a family with Timberlake. When he didn’t share her enthusiasm, Spears agreed to have an abortion. “If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it. And yet Justin was so sure that he didn’t want to be a father.”

    Spears then describes the physical pain of the abortion in detail, calling it “one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced.”

    Timberlake went on to break up with Spears via text message while she was on the set of the “Overprotected” Darkchild remix music video.

    She had a two-week fling with Colin Farrell

    After her breakup with Justin Timberlake, Spears set her sights on Colin Farrell. She found out he would be filming nearby, so she crashed the set of “S.W.A.T.”

    “We would up having a two-week brawl. Brawl is the only word for it – we were all over each other, grappling so passionately it was like we were in a street fight.”

    Spears writes that she tried to convince herself that the tryst wasn’t a big deal, but, she adds, “For a brief moment in time I did think there could be something there.”

    Her Diane Sawyer interview was a “breaking point”

    Spears was told by her team that she’d be expected to speak with Diane Sawyer on the couch in her apartment, much to her chagrin: “I’d often retreated to my apartment to be alone; now I was being forced to speak to Diane Sawyer there and cry in front of the entire nation.”

    Spears wasn’t told any of the “100 percent embarrassing” questions ahead of time. “I shouldn’t have been forced to speak on national TV, forced to cry in front of this stranger, a woman who was relentlessly going after me with harsh question after harsh question. Instead, I felt like I had been exploited, set up in front of the whole world.”

    She calls the interview “a breaking point for me internally,” musing that growing on her own would have been a better way to heal than airing out her issues publicly. “But I had no choice. It seemed like nobody really cared how I felt.”

    She was “really let down” by sister Jamie Lynn, but is “working to feel more compassion” with her

    When she was held in a mental health facility for months under her conservatorship, she texted younger sister Jamie Lynn asking to help get her out. “Stop fighting it. There’s nothing you can do about it, so stop fighting it,” she responded.

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    When Britney returned from the facility, Jamie Lynn pitched her on joint projects, including a sister talk show, a sitcom and a rom-com.

    Once the conservatorship ended, Britney felt “betrayed” by her family. “My sister and I should have found comfort in each other, but unfortunately that hasn’t been the case. As I was fighting the conservatorship and receiving a lot of press attention, she was writing a book capitalizing on it. She rushed out salacious stories about me, many of them hurtful and outrageous. I was really let down.”

    Britney acknowledges Jamie Lynn’s own struggles, from growing up as a child of divorce to her daughter’s near-fatal accident. “She will always be my sister, and I love her and her beautiful family,” she writes. “I’m working to feel more compassion than anger toward her and toward everyone who I feel has wronged me. It’s not easy.”

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  • Britney Spears shares postpartum struggle in new memoir,

    Britney Spears shares postpartum struggle in new memoir,

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    Britney Spears shares postpartum struggle in new memoir, “The Woman in Me” – CBS News


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  • Britney Spears reveals in new memoir why she

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    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 — including her diet, her career and even decisions surrounding birth control. She says she wasn’t even allowed to drink coffee.

    “Even though I begged the court to appoint literally anyone else — and I mean, anyone off the street would have been better — my father was given the job,” she writes, referring to the role of conservator.

    Spears says she now looks forward to her newfound freedom, after a judge granted her request to be released her from the conservatorship two years ago amid widespread calls from fans — who sparked the “#FreeBritney” movement — to release her. 

    “Freedom means being goofy, silly, and having fun on social media. … Freedom means being able to make mistakes, and learning from them,” she writes in her memoir. “Freedom means I don’t have to perform for anyone — onstage or offstage. Freedom means that I get to be as beautifully imperfect as everyone else. And freedom means the ability, and the right, to search for joy, in my own way, on my own terms.” 

    CBS News has reached out to Jamie Spears for comment. 

    “The Woman in Me,” which is published by Simon and Schuster, a division of CBS News’ parent company Paramount Global, also reveals Spears’ struggle with postpartum depression following the back-to-back births of her boys, who were born in 2005 and 2006. 

    By 2007, the paparazzi wanted any shot of her holding her kids, with headlines that followed calling her an unfit mother. 

    “Unfortunately, there wasn’t the same conversation about mental health back then that there is now,” Spears writes. “I hope any new mothers reading this who are having a hard time will get help early. … Because I now know that I was displaying just about every symptom of perinatal depression: sadness, anxiety, fatigue.”

    Dr. Jessi Gold, a psychiatrist who specializes in women’s mental health, says a lot of the guilt that comes with postpartum depression is in the context of “what it means to be a mother, what it means to be a woman, what it means to have trouble connecting to something you’re supposed to be so, so connected to.”

    “And I think it just would be compounded with people saying negative things about you and not knowing how to process that because your brain is already negative,” Gold said about Spears’ situation.

    Spears also made headlines in 2007 when she was photographed shaving her head at a California hair salon. It was an act of defiance, she says — a message to those who saw her long golden locks as nothing more than a sexy exclamation point in dance routines. 

    “I was cornered. I was out being chased, like always, by these men waiting for me to do something they could photograph,” Spears writes. “And so that night I gave them some material… Shaving my head was a way of saying to the world: F*** you.” 

    In her book, she also addresses her social media presence, which even to this day is sometimes viewed as controversial or concerning. She posted a video of herself last month appearing to show her dancing with sharp knives, reportedly prompting a wellness check by authorities.

    “I know that a lot of people don’t understand why I love taking pictures of myself naked or in new dresses. But I think if they’d been photographed by other people thousands of times … they’d understand that I get a lot of joy from posing the way I feel sexy and taking my own picture, doing whatever I want with it,” Spears writes in her memoir. 

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  • Madison Beer Retreats to the “Sweet Relief” of the 2000s, Corroborating That There’s Little Relief in the Present

    Madison Beer Retreats to the “Sweet Relief” of the 2000s, Corroborating That There’s Little Relief in the Present

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    As is the case with most of “Gen Z pop culture,” it’s usually grafted from the 2000s. The latest addition to that truism comes in the form of Madison Beer’s “Sweet Relief” video (marking the sixth single from Silence Between Songs). In many ways, it picks up where “Spinnin” left off, in terms of offering viewers a suburban milieu that Beer inhabits/generally frolics through. This time around, however, things are much brighter (and less desolate) than they are in “Spinnin.” For a start, the sun is actually shining for most of the video, save for during the “requisite” shower scenes of Beer (who seems to want to channel a bit of Miley Cyrus in “Flowers”), which serve no real purpose other than for her to memorex her “hotness” for future generations. 

    However, when she’s not parading her soaped-up body for the camera, she’s actually playing the part of a “nerdy” shy girl. Which, of course, per “2000s law,” simply means donning a pair of glasses. And, if anyone had a doubt that this “little narrative” wasn’t meant to be set in the 00s, one of Beer’s besties proceeds to take photos of the group in Beer’s room with her Canon digital camera. The fact that Beer and her friends are just hanging out in her room together also harkens back to videos of the 00s, when “room culture” was at a peak (see also: Mandy Moore’s “Candy,” Britney Spears’ “From the Bottom of My Broken Heart” and Jennifer Lopez’s “If You Had My Love”—all released on the brink of Y2K). Not to mention that just about the only thing to do in suburbia is hang out in your room…unless you have a car, in which case, you can proceed to do donuts in an empty parking lot. 

    So it is that Beer and her friends, often inexplicably holding stuffed animals (like a teenage Britney for her 1999 Rolling Stone shoot), keep taking “prehistoric selfies” with each other, employing what would later be called a “MySpace angle.” Trying on clothes and putting on makeup—the usual “girlie things” that women in their teens (and beyond) are supposed to do when they congregate—it seems they grow bored enough of that to switch locations to another classic suburban backdrop: the yard. Complete with a trampoline and tire swing. And also—gasp!—boys. Some of them even smoking—double gasp!—cigarettes. And that’s also how you know this is supposed to be the 00s: no one is vaping. In fact, Beer has her “dweebish” eyes on the smoking dude as they all sit in a circle in front of the white picket fence (here, again, the Del Rey influence on Beer is present). And this is where the chorus of “Sweet Relief” applies to the “secret” glances being made as she sings, “It’s just something only we know/Baby, I can’t help myself/I’m seein’ you everywhere I go/I don’t dream of anyone else/All I need, sweet relief [obviously, a sexual euphemism]/It’s just somethin’ only we know/Something only we know.”

    Or so they would like to believe. But at the next cliche suburban location change—the parking lot of a mall—the two are talking in such an obvious “I like you” way that it would be hard not to notice the attraction. Plus, Beer has taken her glasses off so that he can suddenly “really” see her. The moments of fucking around in the parking lot (including Beer being pushed along on a skateboard) channel many a 90s video (see: The Smashing Pumpkins’ repertoire). Not to mention the parking lot driving scenes from Lana Del Rey’s “Bartender” portion of the “Norman Fucking Rockwell” video. And then there’s even a dash of Madonna’s 1983 “Borderline” video as the two talk in front of a sign post together…except that Beer has more luck than Madonna at endearing her love interest to her in this particular scene. 

    The picturesqueness of it all stems from the simplicity of a group of youths actually doing things together, however seemingly banal, that don’t involve the distracting prop of a phone. Because sure, plenty of teens had cell phones “back in the day,” but never used so pervasively as they are now. After all, there weren’t even enough options on a phone to warrant being sucked into it so readily (unless you count playing Snake on a Nokia).  

    And yet, beneath the surface of this being a “quaint” town in the middle of nowhere, the reality is that the group is roaming the streets of North Hollywood. Getting ice cream as night falls, the innocence of that act is mitigated, to the trained eye, by the fact that they walk past a dance studio called Ararat. Conveniently located just across the street from VIP Gentlemen’s Club…which makes for a perfect transition for the little girl taking “dignified” dance lessons to eventually transition into the nearby strip club. Because, as David Lynch has taught us repeatedly, anything “innocent” is always belied by a seedy underbelly. Especially in California. 

    Getting slurpees at a convenience store and “messing around” at a car wash then serve as the precursor to the “grand finale” of the video: jumping into someone’s pool while fully clothed. All of these “millennial” activities (though the latter trio of scenes smacks more decidedly of Gen X) seem to further emphasize that maybe Gen Z kind of hates it here, in this era. Even in spite of constantly mocking those who are even five years older than them for being “boomer.” Sure, every generation tends to romanticize the time period of the one that came before it, but something about this feels different. As though Gen Z inherently knows they got the fuzzy end of the lollipop with regard to experiencing youth. Like, actually experiencing it…instead of just seeing it acted out on their phones. 

    And so, like most Olivia Rodrigo videos, Beer’s “Sweet Relief” offers yet another clear case of hauntology in pop culture. Not just because capitalism creates the conditions in which nothing can ever be new, but because it’s never been more apparent that, as Francis Fukuyama would say, we’ve reached “the end of history.” Or, perhaps more accurately, the end of human history, with nothing new left to say or do, as made increasingly evident by offerings like “Sweet Relief.” Yet even with the AI infusion that’s been infiltrating (and likely to infiltrate all the more) art, the “bots” are only repurposing (e.g., getting AI versions of singer’s voices to sing songs by other musicians) just as much as Madison Beer, or anyone else of her generation. Those who are caught between showing contempt for the narrow-mindedness of the past while still romanticizing it because the present is so utterly dystopian.

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  • Britney Spears Shares Why She Posts Naked Photos On Social Media In New Memoir

    Britney Spears Shares Why She Posts Naked Photos On Social Media In New Memoir

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    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,” she wrote. “But I think if they’d been photographed by other people thousands of times, prodded and posed for other people’s approval, they’d understand that I get a lot of joy from posting the way I feel sexy and taking my own picture.”

    But some of Spears’ racy social media posts have sparked concern in recent months.

    The “Toxic” crooner’s fans questioned her well-being last month after she posted a nearly nude video of her dancing in her home while wielding two butcher knives.

    Spears told her fans to “lighten up” after clarifying that the knives were “not real.”

    A judge ended Britney Spears’ conservatorship on Nov. 12, 2021.

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    She explained in a follow-up post that she was simply mirroring Shakira’s knife dance performance at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards, but the concerning footage ultimately led police to perform a wellness check on her.

    “So unacceptable for cops to listen to random fans and come in to my home unwarranted,” she wrote on Instagram at the time. “Jesus Christ … can I make calls and make others feel threatened in your home?”

    Back in 2021, Spears got candid about why she “exposes” her skin in photos on social media amid her court battle to have her father removed as her conservator.

    Sharing a topless photo of herself sporting white bikini bottoms and red boots, she wrote, “Before I show you more pics of my body… I want you to understand my thoughts on exposing my skin!!!!”

    “In my opinion, it’s quite twisted the immediate response of when any woman is hot and they want to shed a layer … no … I’m not talking in a strip club or a performance … just on a practical scale of being in your car and realising you’re wearing a stupid long sleeve shirt in the summer!!!!,” she continued.

    Spears added: “The immediate reaction to any woman who does this after shedding a layer is DAMN I FEEL BETTER … therefore you think you look better!!!” she continued.

    “The Woman in Me” is due to be published Oct. 24.

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  • What we know about Wade Robson and whether he dated Britney Spears

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    WADE Robson is an Australian-born dancer, choreographer and director who accused Michael Jackson of molesting him when he was seven.

    But he’s recently made headlines over a rumoured fling with Britney Spears over 20 years ago — here we take a look at Wade’s life and what happened.

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    Who is Wade Robson?

    Wade Robson is a 36-year-old choreographer from Brisbane, Australia.

    He began performing as a dancer at the age of five.

    When he was nine, Robson and his family relocated to America.

    He appeared in three of Jackson’s music videos — Black and White, Jam and Heal The World.

    He has directed music videos and world tours for numerous music artists such as NSYNC and Britney Spears.

    He has been married to actress Amanda Rodriguez since August 13, 2005 and they have one child together.

    How did Wade Robson and Michael Jackson meet?

    According to Vulture magazine, Robson met Jackson when he was just 5 years old, after winning a dance competition in his hometown of Brisbane, Australia.

    A seven-year-long period of abuse began soon after Robson alleges, though Jackson adamantly denied all allegations of child abuse.

    Two years after meeting Jackson, Robson was a first-time guest at Neverland Ranch.

    He spent more time with the pop star after his family relocated to Los Angeles full-time, and he even appeared in a few of Jackson’s early ‘90s music videos.

    What has Wade Robson accused Michael jackson of? 

    The 36-year-old claims he was molested at Neverland Ranch by Michael Jackson when he was just seven.

    He says the abuse went on for seven years, and alleges two Jackson firms were used to lure kids.

    His lawyer Vince Finaldi said guests were ferried to the ranch in limos, given plane tickets and had food and accommodation paid for.

    He added: “Neverland was nothing but a well-orchestrated trap.”

    Robson previously sued Jackson’s estate for £1.2billion over the abuse but the lawsuit was dismissed when the judge ruled the estate of Jackson couldn’t be held responsible for the allegations made by the dancer.

    In court filings from 2013, Robson revealed how Jackson raped him from the age of seven before “losing interest” in him when he turned 14.

    Robson denied he was abused in the King of Pop’s 2005 molestation trial but is now suing the firms in California.

    The dancer claims that Michael Jackson ran the most sophisticated child abuse operation the world has ever known.

    It is claimed Robson’s mum says her son denied being sexually abused by the pop star after she quizzed him repeatedly over abuse allegations.

    After meeting Jackson at a Los Angeles hotel room, he allegedly attempted to have anal sex with Robson, but it was too painful so Jackson stopped.

    The following day, it is claimed Robson was summoned to a LA dance studio, where Jackson asked him what he did with his underwear from the previous evening and if there was any blood on it.

    Robson claims he later discovered his underwear was stained so put them in the rubbish.

    Did Wade Robson date Britney Spears?

    Gossip has swirled for decades that Britney, 41, split up with Justin Timberlake in 2002 after getting with Wade.

    It has been suspected for a long time that Timberlake wrote his hit song Cry Me a River about Spears cheating on him.

    The U.S. Sun exclusively revealed that Spears finally confesses to their fling following years of rumours in her upcoming memoir The Woman in Me.

    In the memoir, Britney claims she cheated one time with the choreographer after finding out that Justin had slept around behind her back.

    She writes of her fling with Wade: “We were out one night and we went to a Spanish bar. We danced and danced. I made out with him that night.”

    She goes on to claim that she had been loyal to Justin for years “with that one exception”.

    Britney also says she confessed the fling to Justin — but they couldn’t move past it and continue their relationship.

    What has Wade Robson starred in?

    As well as dancing, directing and choreographing, Wade has appeared as an actor in a number of movies and TV series.

    He appeared in episodes of Full House (1992), Picket Fences (1994), 413 Hope St (1997), Nothing Sacred (10997), Pacific Blue and (1998).

    Robson also has credited acting roles in the films Kazaam (1996), Edtv (1999) and You Got Served (2004).

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  • “We Were All Over Each Other”: Britney Spears Recounts Two-Week Fling With Colin Farrell In New Memoir

    “We Were All Over Each Other”: Britney Spears Recounts Two-Week Fling With Colin Farrell In New Memoir

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    Revelations from Britney Spears‘s love life continue to roll in thanks to pre-release copies of The Woman In Me making their way into the media universe. Colin Farrell, you’re up.

    “Brawl is the only word for it—we were all over each other, grappling so passionately it was like we were in a street fight,” Spears writes of their short-lived romance in her memoir, which Time obtained ahead of its official October 24 publication date.

    Spears and the actor briefly connected in 2003 shortly after her very public breakup with Justin Timberlake, whom she called her first love. During her relationship with Timberlake, from 1999 to 2002, Spears became pregnant and then got an abortion at Timberlake’s urging, and was later broken up with via text message and subsequently portrayed as “a harlot” in the singer’s “Cry Me a River” music video, all of which she writes about in the forthcoming book. 

    Elsewhere in the memoir, Spears writes that Timberlake slept with “six or seven girls” in the weeks after their relationship “officially” ended, so she went out to have a little fun of her own in the midst of her heartbreak. “He was a girl’s dream,” she said of Timberlake. “I was in love with him.”

    She writes that a “club promoter” friend set her up with Farrell, and they had a “two-week brawl.”

    The two attended the premiere of Farrell’s movie The Recruits together, where Farrell insisted they weren’t dating and Spears reportedly dipped as soon as the cameras were gone.

    “We’re not dating,” Farrell said at the time. “She’s a sweet, sweet girl. There’s nothing going on—just mates.”

    Later that year, Spears would tell W Magazine, “Yes, I kissed him… He’s the cutest, hottest thing in the world—wooh!… But it was nothing serious.”

    In her book, per Time, Spears writes of Farrell “for a brief moment in time, I did think there could be something there. The disappointments in my romantic life were just one part of how isolated I became. I felt so awkward all the time.”

    “As I had before when I’d felt too attached to a man, I tried to convince myself in every way that it was not a big deal, that we were just having fun, that in this case, I was vulnerable because I wasn’t over Justin yet.”

    Representatives for Britney Spears and Colin Farrell did not immediately return requests for comment.

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  • Britney Spears Admits To Cheating On Justin Timberlake With Dancer

    Britney Spears Admits To Cheating On Justin Timberlake With Dancer

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    More bombshell revelations are rolling out from Britney Spears’ upcoming memoir.

    Just days after fans were surprised to learn the pop star had an abortion when she was dating Justin Timberlake, The Sun reported the book also addresses a longtime rumor that she was unfaithful during her relationship with the singer.

    In “The Woman in Me,” Spears reportedly confesses to cheating on Timberlake with dancer and choreographer Wade Robson.

    She said she cheated on Timberlake after finding out that he had slept around behind her back.

    “We were out one night and we went to a Spanish bar. We danced and danced. I made out with him that night,” she shared of her brief fling with Robson, who later famously accused Michael Jackson of sexually abusing him as a child in an HBO documentary.

    The “Toxic” crooner said that Timberlake subsequently “agreed to move past” her cheating, adding that she was “loyal to Justin” for years “with that one exception.”

    Spears went on to claim in the book that Timberlake was also unfaithful during their three-year long relationship.

    She wrote that the Grammy winner cheated on her with “another celebrity,” but refused to spill the woman’s name because she is now “married with children.”

    Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears dated from 1999-2002. (Photo by Denise Truscello/WireImage)

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    Though the “Gimme More” singer didn’t cough up a name, eagle-eyed fans have since speculated that the unidentified woman could be singer Nicole Appleton from English girl group “All Saints” after an old newspaper clipping began making rounds across social media.

    The clipping showed Timberlake and Appleton in the back of a car together after a boozy night out in 2000.

    Spears, 41, and Timberlake, 42, became one of Hollywood’s most famous couples when they dated from 1999-2002.

    Gossip that Spears’ infidelity ended their relationship kicked off after Timberlake released the hit breakup tune “Cry Me a River” following their split.

    A woman with blonde hair was notably featured in the song’s music video, leading to speculation that Spears had stepped out on Timberlake.

    Spears later welcomed two sons — Sean Preston, 18, and Jayden James, 17 — with her second husband, Kevin Federline, whom she married in 2004.

    Timberlake went on to tie the knot with actor Jessica Biel in 2012. The pair share two sons; Silas, 8, and Phineas, 2.

    Britney Spears' upcoming memoir alleges that Justin Timberlake cheated on her during their three-year relationship, though she did not reveal the identity of the other woman. (Photo by Denise Truscello/WireImage)
    Britney Spears’ upcoming memoir alleges that Justin Timberlake cheated on her during their three-year relationship, though she did not reveal the identity of the other woman. (Photo by Denise Truscello/WireImage)

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    On Tuesday, People revealed another major tidbit from Spears’ memoir. In the book, she alleges that Timberlake convinced her to get an abortion during their relationship because he “wasn’t happy” about her pregnancy and thought they were “too young.”

    “I’m sure people will hate me for this, but I agreed not to have the baby,” Spears reportedly wrote. “I don’t know if that was the right decision. If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it. And yet Justin was so sure that he didn’t want to be a father.”

    She added: “To this day, it’s one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life.”

    Spears’ memoir, “The Woman in Me,” is due to be published Oct. 24.

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  • Britney Spears says in new memoir she had an abortion while dating Justin Timberlake

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  • Christina Aguilera lets her loud-mouth miniskirt do all the talking

    Christina Aguilera lets her loud-mouth miniskirt do all the talking

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    For her next act, Christina Aguilera is embarking on her own Las Vegas residency, and she’s given her look a total refresh for the occasion. The “Beautiful” singer is no stranger to reinvention, after all.

    For her Jimmy Kimmel Live appearance on October 16, Aguilera was on trend from head to toe, starting with a chic new bob haircut and ending with thigh-high leather boots. The superstar’s fashion-forward look also included a black bodysuit layered under a cropped black zip-up hoodie layered under an oversized black leather bomber jacket. The ’fit’s pièce de résistance, however, was her bright red miniskirt printed with the image of an open mouth. I count at least four or five of this season’s hottest trends in this outfit.

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    During her Kimmel interview, Aguilera was, of course, asked about another pop superstar who has done many a Las Vegas residency: Britney Jean Spears. Aguilera and Spears both began their careers in the Mickey Mouse Club in the early ’90s, so Kimmel wanted to know if Aguilera had any thoughts on Spears’s just-released memoir, The Woman in Me.

    “Do you think you will be in it?” Kimmel asked. Christina Aguilera responded, “Dude, I don’t know…I’m hoping that you know, everything is all good with her and everything’s beautiful. I think the future should be celebrated.”

    This article was originally published by GLAMOUR (US).

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  • Britney Spears explains shaving her head after years of being

    Britney Spears explains shaving her head after years of being

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    Britney Spears opens up in her upcoming memoir about previously unknown details of her life — including an abortion she says she had while dating Justin Timberlake, and her highly scrutinized decision to shave her head at a California hair salon in 2007. 

    The choice to shave her head was an act of rebellion, Spears writes, against years of voyeurism and tabloid scrutiny that had targeted her since her meteoric rise to fame in the late 1990s. 

    “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,” Spears writes in one excerpt from “The Woman In Me.”

    “Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of pushing back,” she says.

    Spears says that under a conservatorship that dictated her life for nearly 14 years, as her father and a lawyer controlled everything from the pop star’s professional decisions to her finances, she 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,” she writes, according to excerpts from the book published by People magazine on Tuesday.

    In other excerpts from the book, which is published by Simon & Schuster, a division of CBS News’ parent company Paramount Global, Spears recounts more of her experiences under the court-ordered arrangement that gave her father, Jamie Spears, along with an attorney appointed his co-conservator, legal standing to control the most basic aspects of her existence starting in early 2008. 

    Spears recalls criticism and body-shaming from her father, which, she says, began in childhood and continued into the conservatorship. The anecdotes harken back to Spears’ striking testimony in court in 2021, when she successfully made her case to be free from the order, Spears said the conservatorship and her father’s dominion over her were abusive, adding, “I’ve been in shock. I am traumatized.”

    In the memoir, which will be published in full next week, Spears writes, “Feeling like you’re never good enough is a soul-crushing state of being for a child. He’d [her father] drummed that message into me as a girl, and even after I’d accomplished so much, he was continuing to do that to me.”

    “I became a robot. But not just a robot — a sort of child-robot. I had been so infantilized that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself,” she continues. “The conservatorship stripped me of my womanhood, made me into a child. I became more of an entity than a person onstage. I had always felt music in my bones and my blood; they stole that from me.”

    Spears remembered “feeling like a shadow” of herself under the conservatorship.

    “I think back now on my father and his associates having control over my body and my money for that long and it makes me feel sick,” she writes. “Think of how many male artists gambled all their money away; how many had substance abuse or mental health issues. No one tried to take away their control over their bodies and money. I didn’t deserve what my family did to me.”

    CBS News has reached out to a representative for Jamie Spears’ attorney but did not not immediately hear back.

    Spears also says in the book her high-profile romance in the 2000s with Justin Timberlake wasn’t what it seemed, and that she had an abortion while they were dating.

    “At one point when we were dating, I became pregnant with Justin’s baby,” she says. “It was a surprise, but for me it wasn’t a tragedy. I loved Justin so much … But Justin definitely wasn’t happy about the pregnancy.”

    CBS News has reached out to representatives for Timberlake for comment but has not yet heard back. 

    Additional excerpts from “The Woman In Me” were released Monday by Spears herself.

    “My story is yours October 24th,” she captioned a video shared on X, formerly known as Twitter. The video itself is fleeting, with a total run time of just 26 seconds. It features a string of quotes taken from the memoir, although the context surrounding them is unclear. 

    “My demeanor was innocent — and it wasn’t an act. I didn’t know what I was doing,” one quote reads, while others say, “It felt like I was living on the edge of a cliff,” and “I don’t want it to be real, this is just a dream.”

    Wendy Naugle, the editor-in-chief at People magazine, discussed Spears’ book Tuesday on “CBS Mornings,” saying the star “writes very honestly and painfully in the book that the conservatorship was soul-crushing” and calls it “her attempt to reclaim her own life and her own narrative.”

    “She would try to be an adult but they wouldn’t allow her to be an adult so she would regress into being a child,” Naugle said. “Becoming an adult is a process and she was really kind of denied that process of becoming a woman.”

    Exclusive excerpts from “The Woman in Me” will be available this week on People magazine’s platforms as well as “CBS Mornings” leading up to the memoir’s release.

    —Analisa Novak contributed to this article.

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  • Britney Spears Had an Abortion After Justin Timberlake Said He “Didn’t Want to Be a Father,” Memoir Reveals

    Britney Spears Had an Abortion After Justin Timberlake Said He “Didn’t Want to Be a Father,” Memoir Reveals

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    Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake were the couple the whole world was talking about when they dated from 1999 to 2002, and two decades later, the former Mickey Mouse Club costars are making headlines once again. 

    Spears’s memoir, The Woman in Me, doesn’t hit shelves until next week, on October 24, but the revelations from the book about Spears’s life are already coming fast and furious. In a newly revealed passage from the book, Spears writes that she became pregnant with Timberlake’s child while they were dating. She got an abortion at Timberlake’s urging, she writes, according to a brief quote published by People.

    “It was a surprise, but for me, it wasn’t a tragedy,” she wrote of 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.” 

    “But 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.”

    “If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it,” she wrote of the abortion. “And yet Justin was so sure that he didn’t want to be a father.”

    “To this day, it’s one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life,” she wrote of the abortion. 

    Spears eventually had two children with ex-husband Kevin Federline, 18-year-old Sean Preston and 17-year-old Jayden James. Her sons currently live in Hawaii with Federline. Spears and Timberlake began dating when Spears was 17 years old, and Timberlake was 18. 

    Vanity Fair has reached out to representatives for Spears and Timberlake for comment, as well as The Woman in Me publisher Simon & Schuster.

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  • Britney Spears reveals she had abortion while dating Justin Timberlake – National | Globalnews.ca

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    Britney Spears has revealed that she got pregnant while dating Justin Timberlake and had an abortion when he decided that they were “way too young” to have a baby.

    The bombshell report, first detailed by People, comes via Spears’ upcoming memoir, The Woman in Me. (The book is out on Oct. 24.)

    “But 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,” Spears writes of the decision to terminate the pregnancy in the book, according to the outlet.

    Spears and Timberlake began dating in 1999, when she was 17 and the *NSYNC alum was 18. They dated until 2002.


    FILE – Singer Britney Spears and boyfriend Justin Timberlake from the band NSYNC arrive at Clive Davis’s pre-Grammy Awards gala Feb. 26, 2002 in Beverly Hills, Calif.

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    After their split, Spears went on to briefly marry her childhood friend Jason Alexander in a surprise ceremony in Las Vegas in 2004, but the marriage was annulled just 55 hours later.

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    Nine months later, she married backup dancer Kevin Federline, and eventually had two children with him — Sean Preston, now 18, and Jayden James, now 17.

    Timberlake has yet to publicly comment on the contents of Spears’ memoirs.

    The Woman In Me hits shelves next week, and Spears has promised a no-holds-barred tell-all for her fans.

    “It is finally time for me to raise my voice and speak out, and my fans deserve to hear it directly from me,” she told People via email. “No more conspiracy, no more lies — just me owning my past, present, and future.”

    The book comes two years after the end of Spears’ 13-year legal conservatorship, in which she faced deep legal, financial and physical control at the hands of her family.

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    “I didn’t deserve what my family did to me,” Vanity Fair reports Spears writes in an excerpt from the book.

    “Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of pushing back. 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.”

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    (To read an exclusive excerpt from Spears’ book, which includes details of her infamous snake performance at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards and how she felt about filming the ‘Crossroads’ movie, head over to People.)

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  • Jessica Simpson Hilariously Reacts To Fan Mistaking Her For Britney Spears

    Jessica Simpson Hilariously Reacts To Fan Mistaking Her For Britney Spears

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    It’s not unheard of for celebrities to have lookalikes who also happen to be stars themselves. Some famous people look so similar that even fans can get confused every now and then.

    And the mix-ups can get pretty awkward, but Jessica Simpson — like the good sport she is — delivered a hilarious reaction after recently being mistaken for Britney Spears.

    While shopping at a local mall over the weekend, the “Irresistible” singer was approached by an eager fan who wanted her autograph. But unbeknownst to the fan, she asked for the John Hancock of the wrong pop star.

    Simpson, 43, shared her humorous reaction to the light-hearted mishap on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday.

    “The face when someone in the parking lot at the mall asks you for your autograph, but expects you to sign it Britney Spears,” she wrote alongside a photo of her and her daughter Maxwell Drew, 11, making some exaggerated shocked facial expressions.

    Fans on X reacted to the mallgoer’s blunder in Simpson’s comments section, with some quipping that the two superstars do indeed look similar.

    While some fans in Simpson’s comments section said it’s easy to tell the two apart, the honest mistake isn’t too hard to believe, considering they both sport blonde hair and were compared to one another at the height of their pop star careers. Yes, we’re talking about MTV’s “TRL” days.

    Even Spears pointed out their debatable similarities back in an Instagram post last December.

    “Why do I look EXACTLY like Jessica Simpson ??? Also my face looks so pale 🤧🤧🤧🤔🤔🤔 !!!” she captioned the post alongside a photo of herself donning a tight-lipped expression.

    Back in February 2020, Simpson recalled to Entertainment Tonight that she was often unnecessarily pitted against Spears and Christina Aguilera since they all “grew up in a very competitive environment” among record labels.

    “I think everybody’s careers have their own unique stories, and I love that Britney owns herself, Christina owns herself, and they don’t let the world control them,” she said. “They just are themselves, and that’s who I am as well.”

    Simpson added: “Everybody has found their own way, in such a beautiful, inspiring way. I just love it that everybody has remained authentically who they are. There’s so much room at the top! I mean, think about how many people are in heaven! Come on.”

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  • Troye Sivan Subverts the 90s Calvin Klein Ad in “One of Your Girls” Video

    Troye Sivan Subverts the 90s Calvin Klein Ad in “One of Your Girls” Video

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    With the release of Troye Sivan’s third album, Something to Give Each Other, he’s in full-blown promotion mode. Which means, rightly, the release of another single to coincide with the album’s unveiling on October 13th. That single happens to be “One of Your Girls”—not to be confused with Kate Winslet as Rose urging Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack to draw her like “one of your French girls.” Though it seems Sivan would be down for that based on his self-confidence in the Gordon von Steiner-directed video for “One of Your Girls.”

    Evoking a similar feel to the “provocative” Calvin Klein ads of the 90s (and not just because most of the video is shot in black and white, and set against a stark white backdrop), Sivan offers the same seductive promise of “freedom” (or “permission,” if you prefer) to be oneself, no matter what gender they are. And, just as the 1994 ad for CK One “boldly” suggested that a fragrance could be “for a man or a woman,” Sivan opts to take that gender-bending tagline one step further by sliding into the titular role of “One of Your Girls.” Yes, that’s right, Sivan becomes the girl so that he can prove to the straight man he’s lusting after that he’s just as viable a candidate for a situationship. His lust for the hot straight man in question is evoked in lyrics that include, “Everybody loves you, baby/You should trademark your face/Linin’ down the block to be around you/But, baby, I’m first in place.” While the sentiments come across as “sweet like Marabou” (in case you were unsure that Sivan is Australian) in sonic form, the accompanying visual lends a more melancholic tinge to the song as we see that Sivan is bending over backwards to become desirable to a straight man by choosing to put on the drag of a “quintessentially hot” woman.

    Serving Willam from Drag Race realness, Sivan relishes his femme persona, working a chair prop with almost as much gusto as Britney Spears in the “Stronger” video. Almost. The Calvin Klein aesthetic stays consistent throughout, with the camera’s focus on muscular shirtless men (whether filmed in color or B&W) being ever-constant. One such shirtless and muscular man including Ross Lynch, who Chilling Adventures of Sabrina fans will recognize immediately as Harvey. While others will be quick to call out that another Disney star has gone “wild” (with Lynch formerly starring on a Disney Channel show called Austin & Ally). 

    Although Sivan recently gushed about Janet Jackson being “the blueprint, literally. As far as pop stars go, she’s it to me,” the look he adopts for his drag persona is decidedly Madonna-esque, right down to the white dress (“Like A Virgin” anyone?) that winks naughtily at the idea of “purity.” Then there is the aforementioned chair that could just as easily double as being from the “Open Your Heart” video. Not to mention the lap dance Sivan gives Lynch channeling Madonna’s own same-sex tease during The Girlie Show performance of “Bye Bye Baby,” in which she, too, switches guises into that of a man (or really, Marlene Dietrich) dressed in coattails to grind against three other women. And yes, there are similar “Open Your Heart” “lock and key” lyrics delivered by Sivan as he declares, “You get the key to my heart, and I need it.” 

    Meanwhile, it seems that what pop music needs is someone who is as much of a sexual chameleon as Sivan. Hence, that moment when he stares into the camera to tell us, “Pop the culture iconography, standin’ right in front of me.” The only problem is, he still can’t quite offer anything truly different apart from mimicking the female pop star “blueprints” that have come before him. And, by the end of the video, he’s transitioned to full-tilt Britney Spears circa “I’m A Slave 4 U,” delivering similar choreography and wearing an ensemble that a Britney wannabe might have once plucked from the racks of Charlotte Russe. 

    While some will interpret the pouty looks Sivan gives as being an affectation of his “sexy” persona, others might recognize the sadness shining through after being rejected by a straight man who is only “curious” about dabbling in homo encounters. Ergo, Sivan adopting this female persona to appeal to what the straight male ideal is supposed to be. As Sivan put it, “It was really just reflective of how I felt I was bending and changing my values or my self-worth for someone else. It’s like, slay, there’s this performance from a pop star girl version of me. But towards the end of the video, I think you really can see the vulnerability and the cracks that this isn’t going to work.”

    Even if it might have been fun to pretend for a while. With Sivan’s realizations about overly catering to straight men who were merely queer-curious, he started thinking about how that might be a reflection of his own enduring homophobia, noting, “A lot of the boys that song is about, I feel like they probably would’ve bullied me in high school, and now here they are paying me attention. So, at the sacrifice of my own self-worth, I’m throwing myself at them, and then you’re really just at their beck and call, and that can sometimes not feel so great.”

    But, at the very least, it must have felt great to dress up in Madonna and Britney-coded drag against the same all-white backdrop of a 90s CK One commercial in the name of subverting straight expectations.

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