Britney Spears shares memories of run-ins with myriad celebrities in her new memoir 'The Woman in Me,' from ex-boyfriends including Justin Timberlake and Kevin Federline to mentors including Madonna
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And Spears reveals that her budding romance with future-boyfriend Timberlake began on the show's set. "Pretty soon I realized that I was head over heels in love with him — so in love with him it was pathetic," Spears writes of their young love. "We were like magnets."“There were a couple of times during our relationship when I knew Justin had cheated on me. Especially because I was so infatuated and so in love, I let it go, even though the tabloids seemed determined to rub my face in it," she writes. “There were rumors about him with various dancers and groupies.
In the book, Spears also shares a memory of when Timberlake met "Pony" singer Ginuwine on the street in N.Y.C. To this day, Spears respects Madonna for how she faced industry misogyny and writes: "She had endured so much sexism and bullying from the public and the industry, and had been shamed for her sexuality so many times, but she always overcame it.""Every time we rehearsed it, we did an air kiss," Spears writes of the iconic performance.
Spears met one of her rock heroes when she performed at the 2001 Super Bowl alongside Aerosmith and *NSYNC. "I’d appreciated it when Oprah told me on her show that my sexuality was no one else’s business, and that when it came to virginity, 'you don’t need a world announcement if you change your mind,'" Spears writes of the talk-show host.Brawl
Spears repeatedly declared herself “embarrassed” during the sit-down and was criticized by Sawyer for having “upset a lot of mothers in this country” by shedding her good-girl image via scantily clad magazine covers. The pair married in 2004, and they welcomed their kids Sean Preston and Jayden James in 2005 and 2006, respectively."One time he came home late and told me he’d been at a party. 'Justin Timberlake was there!' he said. 'Lindsay Lohan was, too!'" Spears writes of how Federline changed. "0Kevin was just so enthralled with the fame and the power. Again and again in my life I’ve seen fame and money ruin people, and I saw it happen with Kevin in slow motion.
" delivered a monologue and skit about Kevin, who he called 'the world’s first-ever no-hit wonder.' They sealed a stand-in into a crate and put it on a truck and dumped it into the ocean. But this was the father of my two infant sons. I found the violence toward him unsettling," Spears writes. "I hadn’t known that was going to happen and it caught me completely off guard ... I had been blindsided and didn’t like it.
"She said that at the age of twenty-five I’d done everything worthwhile in my life I’d ever do. She called my two babies 'the most adorable mistakes you’ll ever see,'" Spears writes. "I didn’t hear that until later, though. At the time I was backstage sobbing hysterically."came out in 2007 during a difficult time for Spears. She only did one interview to promote the project: a live radio interview with Ryan Seacreest.
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