Britney Spears walks the red carpet in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Feb. 11, 2017.
, hers is a tale of rapid maturity followed by arrested development, freedom followed by imprisonment. In the book, Spears likens herself to Benjamin Button, a character who ages backward through time.
the school girl outfits in the"...Baby One More Time" video were her idea, as was the eventual collaboration with Madonna that manifestedshe also describes herself throughout the book as having been trusting, naive, and eager to please. The public's interest in her sexuality—the way she was supposed to be sexy onstage and demure in her personal life—created an impossible bind.
The consequences to Spears' personal life of the need to maintain her reputation as a virgin—even as she was hypersexualized by reporters who asked her whether her breasts were real—were tremendous. In one of the major revelations in the book, Spears writes that she had a medical abortion during her relationship with Timberlake.
In some of the most moving passages of the book, Spears writes how she found independence even in acts of desperation. She unpacks complicated feelings about shaving her head in 2007, an impulsive move after a plea to Federline to see her children went ignored. She writes that the decision"pains" her in retrospect, in part because the photos of the incident were leveraged against her by family members who wanted to prove she was out of control.
The struggle of that transition from girl to woman has become a popular theme in culture. Movies about literal puberty have dominated the box office. Those changes are often couched in metaphor and end in triumph .are delivered in a frank manner.
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