BuzzJack Music Forum _ Britney Spears _ The Woman in Me (Autobiography)
Posted by: Slayer 21st February 2022, 08:28 PM
UPDATE: Britney has confirmed on instagram that she is in the process of writing a book
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Britney Spears has sealed a bombshell book deal said to be worth as much as $15 million.
Publishing insiders say Spears, 40, has reached a landmark deal with publishing house Simon & Schuster for her tell-all memoir about her career, her “Toxic” life and her family.
The deal comes after a bidding war from multiple publishers over her book, according to one insider, who claimed, “the deal is one of the biggest of all time, behind the Obamas.”
Source: Page Six
Both Deadline and Variety have independently confirmed the news also.
Posted by: -Jay- 21st February 2022, 10:19 PM
I'm so ready for this. I hope it proves to be a cathartic experience for Britney.
Posted by: Run_For_Cover 21st February 2022, 10:37 PM
I’m looking forward to this, hopefully this experience is great for her.
Posted by: Cody Madrigal 21st February 2022, 11:21 PM
SPILL THE TEA MA'AM
Posted by: Bustin Jieber 21st February 2022, 11:40 PM
Don't hold back, girl!
Posted by: Tafty³³³ 23rd February 2022, 10:16 PM
Cannot wait for this. It is a $15m deal which is the highest for a solo female (she's tied with Bill Clinton)! The Obamas are #1 overall with $65m but theirs was a multi-book deal!
This is going to be such an interesting read. I can see this being a massive seller too. Once the book is out there, I assume it won't be long until movie studios start a bidding war (if they haven't started already)
Posted by: pippa 24th February 2022, 12:55 AM
The book will have huge interest and should be well worth purchasing.
Posted by: Bdelita 25th February 2022, 09:33 AM
It has probably not even been written yet but this book should be studied in schools.
Posted by: dannjohn 25th February 2022, 01:43 PM
i have been waiting for a book from her since 2008.
Posted by: Nick F1 6th March 2022, 07:16 PM
Two officially licensed Britney ‘books’ being released in July
They are not really books, just a journal and an oracle deck, but they look kinda cool. Both are officially licensed Britney Brands products and list the author as Kara Nesvig (which they say is a Britney superfan). Release date for both is July 26th. More detailed descriptions at each of the links.
Posted by: spiceboy 19th March 2022, 05:49 PM
That oracle book looks so cool!
Posted by: Slayer 4th April 2022, 07:00 PM
UPDATE: Britney has confirmed that she is writing a book, cannot wait to read! So proud of her.
Posted by: Slayer 8th May 2022, 03:58 PM
Britney says the book is coming out at the end of the year.
Posted by: Tafty³³³ 14th April 2023, 12:52 AM
Looks like this book is finished and as suspected, it's going to be one of the biggest emotional rollercoasters you're ever going to read!
Posted by: Slayer 14th April 2023, 12:54 PM
I AM READY FOR THIS BESTSELLER!!
Posted by: Tafty³³³ 8th May 2023, 06:27 PM
Oh… this book is gonna be an ALL TIMER OMFG
Posted by: spiceboy 8th May 2023, 08:27 PM
I wonder what it could be, Justin not wanting her to expose what an ass he was in reality? I mean it's likely celebs she has done drugs with or something who don't want it written about or something of that type. Or it's all made up bollocks and is an easy headline.
Posted by: No Sleeep 8th May 2023, 10:05 PM
Kinda don’t believe this is ever going to come
And if celebs are so scared about what she’ll say god knows how somebody like Mariah got away with her memoir and everything she said about Tommy Mottola!
Posted by: LoveMeDown 9th May 2023, 09:17 PM
The article comes from The Sun, so take it with a grain of salt!
Posted by: Tafty³³³ 19th May 2023, 07:14 PM
Sounds like it’s not even finished yet (and it might take a while!)
Posted by: Big Fat Padam 29th June 2023, 01:25 PM
I think once fans see the full picture, not one will hold it against her (no pun intended) for retiring.
Posted by: LoveMeDown 29th June 2023, 01:39 PM
QUOTE(Big Fat Padam @ Jun 29 2023, 01:25 PM)
I think once fans see the full picture, not one will hold it against her (no pun intended) for retiring.
When did she retire?
Posted by: Tafty³³³ 29th June 2023, 01:57 PM
QUOTE(LoveMeDown @ Jun 29 2023, 02:39 PM)
When did she retire?
She hasn’t, yet. Michael likes to keep repeating the inevitable thing so that he gets the first “TOLD YOU ALL!!!”. It’s kinda his gimmick.
Posted by: Big Fat Padam 29th June 2023, 01:58 PM
QUOTE(Tafty³³³ @ Jun 29 2023, 02:57 PM)
She hasn’t, yet. Michael likes to keep repeating the inevitable thing so that he gets the first “TOLD YOU ALL!!!”. It’s kinda his gimmick.
A recent post caption literally starts with "I know I told you I retired from the industry".
I don't really like that cover, it looks like a paint job with the image pasted on a black background. Plus that picture must be at least 20+ years old and it's not exactly the most flattering photo of her.
ALSO - she's named it after a Shania Twain album!
Posted by: Slayer 11th July 2023, 04:30 PM
She's repeatedly said she hates people touching her, i'm glad she chose a photo she likes. I did not expect a new photo at all, we shouldn't be complaining.
We finally get to hear her story.
Love that the title is lyrics from Not A Girl.
Posted by: Slayer 11th July 2023, 05:41 PM
Posted by: spiceboy 11th July 2023, 06:32 PM
QUOTE(Slayer @ Jul 11 2023, 05:30 PM)
She's repeatedly said she hates people touching her, i'm glad she chose a photo she likes. I did not expect a new photo at all, we shouldn't be complaining.
We finally get to hear her story.
Love that the title is lyrics from Not A Girl.
It’s not? The lyrics to that are “not yet a woman”
I am looking forwards to reading this.
Posted by: LoveMeDown 11th July 2023, 06:49 PM
QUOTE(spiceboy @ Jul 11 2023, 06:32 PM)
It’s not? The lyrics to that are “not yet a woman”
I am looking forwards to reading this.
"I'm just tryin' to find the woman in me"
Posted by: Slayer 11th July 2023, 06:57 PM
I find it weird people have tried to correct me twice when it is literally in the lyrics
^ thank you for posting the lyrics!
Posted by: Tafty³³³ 11th July 2023, 07:43 PM
Is anyone else able to pre-order? I can’t seem to find one that works 😭
Posted by: Nick Jonas 11th July 2023, 07:49 PM
Only Amazon Kindle so far
Posted by: Slayer 11th July 2023, 07:54 PM
I'm waiting for it to show up on Amazon UK!
Posted by: Tafty³³³ 12th July 2023, 12:58 AM
Already #1 on Amazon and #6 on Apple Books (where it's the only pre-order in the top 6).
Now for the UK links to fix themselves so we can start tracking that!!
Posted by: -Jay- 12th July 2023, 07:31 AM
It's now able to be pre-ordered on Amazon UK! Pre-ordered mine
Posted by: spiceboy 12th July 2023, 09:15 AM
QUOTE(LoveMeDown @ Jul 11 2023, 07:49 PM)
"I'm just tryin' to find the woman in me"
I literally went to look it up after listening to the song again because I couldn't hear it at all
(I am profoundly deaf to be fair )
Posted by: spiceboy 12th July 2023, 09:17 AM
£25! I'll be waiting for it to come and and picking it up for ASDA for half the price!
Posted by: Nick Jonas 12th July 2023, 09:32 AM
QUOTE(spiceboy @ Jul 12 2023, 10:17 AM)
£25! I'll be waiting for it to come and and picking it up for ASDA for half the price!
Mate I’d pay £250
Posted by: Tafty³³³ 12th July 2023, 10:30 AM
Pre-ordered!
I wonder if anywhere will do any signed ones? Imagine owning something that Britney has signed????
(I don't expect a signing tour btw - I just mean ones she has signed at home or wherever and put on sale etc..)
Posted by: No Sleeep 12th July 2023, 12:58 PM
I think I’ll wait and buy it in store, the old fashioned way. So excited for this.
Posted by: Slayer 12th July 2023, 02:15 PM
Pre-ordered on Amazon! You bet I’ll be buying every version!
Posted by: Big Fat Padam 12th July 2023, 04:03 PM
Oh my!!
Also lol at fans not knowing that those are lyrics from one of her most famous songs!!!
Posted by: Slayer 12th July 2023, 04:51 PM
Screaming!
Posted by: vibe 12th July 2023, 08:22 PM
Cant wait to read this!
Is that the official cover?
Posted by: Slayer 12th July 2023, 08:53 PM
Posted by: Jade 12th July 2023, 09:01 PM
Pre-ordered! I really like the title choice - referencing her own hit and she's been so infantilised under the conservatorship, feels like a powerful move.
I don't believe we'll get the full story in this book.
Posted by: Slayer 14th July 2023, 11:20 AM
We’ll get whatever she’s comfortable with sharing and what she legally can, which is good enough for me
Posted by: Melancholia 14th July 2023, 08:46 PM
QUOTE(Slayer @ Jul 14 2023, 12:20 PM)
We’ll get whatever she’s comfortable with sharing and what she legally can, which is good enough for me
or what Cade wants.
Posted by: Slayer 14th July 2023, 09:17 PM
Yawn, Banon twitter is for you.
Posted by: Melancholia 15th July 2023, 11:55 AM
QUOTE(Slayer @ Jul 14 2023, 10:17 PM)
Yawn, Banon twitter is for you.
How rude.
I'm sorry I don't trust the guy that was offering access to his clients for sex.
Posted by: Tafty³³³ 26th July 2023, 10:15 AM
Oh they're scared SCARED.
The way this actually feels worse for them than it would have been had they allowed her to just get her story out
Posted by: London 26th July 2023, 11:13 AM
Pre-ordered this last night while listening to mind your business obsessively. I can't wait to read her story. I'm going to be crying most the way through.
Posted by: No Sleeep 7th August 2023, 07:12 PM
Half price on Amazon! I finally pre-ordered, I knew it was coming
Niiice. I pre-ordered through them and they have a pre-order price guarantee (they sell it for the cheapest price it went for)
I’m wondering and it’s 99% not happening, but I have wondered if she’d do a book signing. Would be nice to get a signed copy (although I completely understand why she would opt not to do it ofc!!)
Posted by: Slayer 7th August 2023, 10:35 PM
Honestly I’d be so shocked if she did anything signed.
I see her doing the bare minimum. Imagine if she did sign, those would be insanely rare and hard to get!
Posted by: Voodoo 11th August 2023, 01:00 PM
Only 288 pages? That's quite short for an autobiography of someone who has been through a lot.
Legit one of the most iconic (if not the, imo) performances of all time! Incredible.
Posted by: spiceboy 7th September 2023, 04:48 PM
Great promo strategy!
Posted by: Slayer 22nd September 2023, 09:38 PM
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Posted by: Moby Dick 30th September 2023, 06:08 PM
I thought Whinealake's lawyers and Colin Farrell's lawyer forced her to tske stuff out?
Posted by: LoveMeDown 30th September 2023, 11:19 PM
QUOTE(Moby Dick @ Sep 30 2023, 06:08 PM)
I thought Whinealake's lawyers and Colin Farrell's lawyer forced her to tske stuff out?
Wasn't it mostly just tabloids claiming that? Page Six never did.
Posted by: Moby Dick 2nd October 2023, 01:52 PM
Maybe it could be a multi-part series? She will have a LOT to tell.
Posted by: Slayer 3rd October 2023, 11:01 PM
She’s teasing a volume 2!
I don’t know how seriously to take this.
Posted by: Tafty³³³ 3rd October 2023, 11:12 PM
Not MobyDick being correct! Omg.
What if Volume 2 is an album??? OMGGGGGG
No, but seriously, I CANNOT WAIT! It makes sense as I presume she has a LOT to get off of her chest!
Posted by: Moby Dick 4th October 2023, 03:56 PM
QUOTE(Tafty³³³ @ Oct 4 2023, 12:12 AM)
Not MobyDick being correct! Omg.
What if Volume 2 is an album??? OMGGGGGG
No, but seriously, I CANNOT WAIT! It makes sense as I presume she has a LOT to get off of her chest!
!!!!!!
I knew it!!!!!
Posted by: Slayer 5th October 2023, 03:55 PM
Loving this!
Posted by: Nick F1 5th October 2023, 08:26 PM
Omg
Posted by: Slayer 12th October 2023, 02:17 PM
According to TMZ Britney has recorded some of the audio for the book.
Posted by: Slayer 13th October 2023, 02:16 PM
The five-time Oscar-nominated actress will narrate the audio edition of The Woman in Me, Spears’ upcoming memoir, PEOPLE can exclusively confirm. The pop icon will record an introduction to the audiobook, while Williams will lend her voice to the rest.
"This book has been a labor of love and all the emotions that come with it,” Spears says in a statement shared with PEOPLE. “Reliving everything has been exciting, heart-wrenching, and emotional, to say the least. For those reasons, I will only be reading a small part of my audiobook.”
Spears adds, "I am so grateful to the amazing Michelle Williams for reading the rest of it."
“I stand with Britney,” Williams says in a statement of her support for the Grammy-winning singer.
Posted by: Slayer 13th October 2023, 04:47 PM
A source tells Page Six that Britney Spears chose Michelle Williams to narrate #TheWomanInMe book because of her accolades, personal attributes and complex family history.
“She has an incredible amount of integrity and stature in the industry. She brings gravitas. The award-winning actress also has an interesting connection to Spears, as both successful women started in the entertainment industry when they were very young and have been estranged from relatives.”
Posted by: One_For_Sorrow 13th October 2023, 09:02 PM
Not long until it’s released now?
Posted by: Slayer 13th October 2023, 09:44 PM
Yes just 11 days now!
She’s currently in New York too for some reason 👀 she’s with her new manager there.
Posted by: Tafty³³³ 14th October 2023, 03:15 AM
I PRAY that she gets a slot on Kelly Clarkson's show to promote it! Kelly's show is now in New York and they pre-record several episodes at a time etc..
Posted by: Tafty³³³ 16th October 2023, 04:04 PM
This is going to be soooo interesting! Half of me is expecting her to not go into too much detail whatsoever though lmao. Omg. GIVE US THE TEA, BRIT!
Posted by: Slayer 16th October 2023, 06:00 PM
Apparently she's turned down every chat show/morning show. Surely a documentary would be better and she chooses the edit she gets.
I LOVE this teaser!
Posted by: Slayer 17th October 2023, 02:57 PM
It’s a sun-kissed afternoon in late September, and Britney Spears pirouettes in powdery white sands on a beach in Tahiti. Tousled blond hair falls over her shoulders as she goes barefoot at the surf’s edge. The 41-year-old pop icon, capturing photos for the cover of PEOPLE while on a tropical getaway, smooths her Anthropologie sundress, fixes her bangs and moves into the shallows in search of a good shot. Working the camera as only she can, Spears looks up and smiles.
Yet, until Nov. 12, 2021 — the day a Los Angeles County judge terminated the conservatorship that had governed Spears’ life for nearly 14 years — she had few respites like this. The legal victory, following fervent testimony in which Spears accused her father Jamie, 71, and others of exploitation and abuse, set the stage for a second act that is both exhilarating and tricky. “Learning this new freedom, I’ll admit, is challenging at times,” she tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview, done via email.
There have been setbacks as she’s navigated her new normal, including her split from model-actor Sam Asghari, 29, in August after just 14 months of marriage. She also has a complicated relationship with her family, including her dad, mom Lynne, 68, and sister Jamie Lynn, 32. But there have also been high notes: Her collaboration with Elton John, “Hold Me Closer,” for one, marked her first Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 11 years. Mostly, though, Spears says she finds joy in everyday moments, whether “I’m playing with my dogs ... [or] watching episodes of Friends and belly laughing. I love, love to travel and explore,” she says. “I am a simple girl.”
When Spears looks back on the best times of her life, she recalls her earliest days of performing, “trips with my dancers [and] acting silly with my girlfriends.” But she’s proudest of becoming a mother to sons Sean Preston, now 18, and Jayden James, 17, with her ex-husband Kevin Federline. “Starting a family was my dream come true,” she tells PEOPLE of raising her boys, who now live with their dad in Hawaii, but are in contact with Spears. “Being a mom was my dream come true.”
Another dream has been to reclaim her voice. “Over the past 15 years or even at the start of my career, I sat back while people spoke about me and told my story for me,” she says. “After getting out of my conservatorship, I was finally free to tell my story without consequences from the people in charge of my life.”
The result is a revealing new memoir, The Woman in Me, excerpted below. Sharing often-brutal truths, Spears details her incredible journey from teen superstar to one of the bestselling female artists of all time, her “soul-crushing” conservatorship experience and her past relationships. “It's hard to speak about,” Spears says of recounting her life’s darker moments, including “not getting a moment of peace, the judgments from strangers who don't even know me, having my freedom stripped away from me by my family and the government [and] losing my passion for the things I love.”
Now it’s Spears’ time to wrestle back the narrative.
“It is finally time for me to raise my voice and speak out, and my fans deserve to hear it directly from me,” she says. “No more conspiracy, no more lies — just me owning my past, present and future.”
In turn, Spears would love to empower others to do the same, telling PEOPLE she hopes the overall takeaway is to “speak up. Be loud. Know your worth. Inspire people and most of all, just be kind.”
A precocious kid from Kentwood, La., Spears was cast on The Mickey Mouse Club at age 11.
Being in the show was boot camp for the entertainment industry: extensive dance rehearsals, singing lessons, acting classes, time in the recording studio, and school in between. The Mouseketeers quickly split into our own cliques, divided by the dressing rooms that we shared: Christina Aguilera and I were the younger kids, and we shared a dressing room. We looked up to the older kids — Keri Russell, Ryan Gosling, and Tony Lucca, who I thought was so handsome. And I quickly connected with a boy named Justin Timberlake.
It was honestly a kid’s dream — unbelievably fun, particularly for a kid like me. But it was also exceptionally hard work: we would run choreography thirty times in a day, trying to get every step perfect.
[Once] at a sleepover, we played Truth or Dare, and someone dared Justin to kiss me. A Janet Jackson song was playing in the background as he leaned in and kissed me.
When the show ended a year and a half later … I decided to go back to Kentwood. Already within me was a push-pull: part of me wanted to keep building toward the dream; the other part wanted me to live a normal life in Louisiana. For a minute, I had to let normalcy win.
Back at home, I returned to [high school], settling into normal teenage life — or the closest thing to “normal” that was possible in my family.
For fun, starting when I was in eighth grade, my mom and I would make the two-hour drive from Kentwood to Biloxi, Mississippi, and while we were there, we would drink daiquiris. We called our cocktails “toddies.” I loved that I was able to drink with my mom every now and then. The way we drank was nothing like how my father did it. When he drank, he grew more depressed and shut down. We became happier, more alive and adventurous.
There was something so beautifully normal about that period of my life: going to homecoming and prom, driving around our little town, going to the movies.
But, the truth was, I missed performing. My mom had been in touch with a lawyer she’d met on my audition circuit, a man named Larry Rudolph, who she would call sometimes for business advice. He suggested I record a demo. He had a song that Toni Braxton had recorded for her second album that had ended up on the cutting room floor. This would become the demo that I would use to get in the door at record labels.
Larry took me around [New York City], and I went into rooms full of executives and sang Whitney Houston’s “I Have Nothing.” Gazing out at the rooms full of men in suits looking me up and down in my small dress and high heels, I sang loud.
I ended up getting a record deal with Jive Records at the age of fifteen.
The label wanted me in a studio immediately.
I worked for hours straight. My work ethic was strong. If you knew me then, you wouldn’t hear from me for days. I would stay in the studio as long as I could. If anyone wanted to leave, I’d say, “I wasn’t perfect.”
When all the songs were done, someone said, “What else can you do? Do you want to dance now?”
I said, “Hell yeah, I do!”
ollowing the success of her first two record-smashing albums …Baby One More Time (1999) and Oops!...I Did It Again (2000), Spears hit the stage at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards to promote her third album, Britney.
The plan was for me to sing “I’m a Slave 4 U,” and we decided I would use a snake as a prop. It’s become an iconic moment in VMAs history, but it was even more terrifying than it appeared.
All I knew was to look down, because I felt if I looked up and caught its eye, it would kill me.
In my head I was saying, Just perform, just use your legs and perform. But what nobody knows is that as I was singing, the snake brought its head right around to my face, right up to me, and started hissing.
I was thinking, Are you f---ing serious right now? The f---ing goddamn snake’s tongue is flicking out at me. Right. Now. Finally, I got to the part where I handed it back, thank God.
While recording her album Britney in 2001, Spears also filmed her first movie, 2002’s Crossroads, a coming-of-age tale about teens on a road trip, with Zoe Saldaña and Taryn Manning.
The experience wasn’t easy for me. My problem wasn’t with anyone involved in the production but with what acting did to my mind. I think I started Method acting—only I didn’t know how to break out of my character. I really became this other person. Some people do Method acting, but they’re usually aware of the fact that they’re doing it. But I didn’t have any separation at all.
I ended up walking differently, carrying myself differently, talking differently. I was someone else for months while I filmed Crossroads. Still to this day, I bet the girls I shot that movie with think, She’s a little…quirky. If they thought that, they were right.
That was pretty much the beginning and end of my acting career, and I was relieved. The Notebook casting came down to me and Rachel McAdams, and 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.
I imagine there are people in the acting field who have dealt with something like that, where they had trouble separating themselves from a character.
I hope I never get close to that occupational hazard again. Living that way, being half yourself and half a fictional character, is messed up. After a while you don’t know what’s real anymore.
By 2008, Spears — who had welcomed two sons with her second husband, Kevin Federline — had become a constant paparazzi target and a tabloid fixture. After being placed under psychiatric holds that February, she was put in a court-ordered conservatorship, granting her father and a lawyer control over Spears’ financial and personal affairs for the next 13 years. In that time, she recorded and released four successful albums and headlined her Piece of Me Las Vegas residency that grossed $138 million during its four-year run. But behind the scenes, she says she was unhappy.
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. 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.
If I thought getting criticized about my body in the press was bad, it hurt even more from my own father. He repeatedly told me I looked fat and that I was going to have to do something about it.
I would do little bits of creative stuff here and there, but my heart wasn’t in it anymore. As far as my passion for singing and dancing, it was almost a joke at that point.
Feeling like you’re never good enough is a soul-crushing state of being for a child. He’d 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.
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.
If they’d let me live my life, I know I would’ve followed my heart and come out of this the right way and worked it out.
Thirteen years went by with me feeling like a shadow of myself. 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.
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.
The thing was: I accomplished a lot during that time when I was supposedly incapable of taking care of myself.
I sometimes thought that it was almost funny how I won those awards for the album I made while I was supposedly so incapacitated that I had to be controlled by my family.
The truth was, though, when I stopped to think about it for very long, it wasn’t funny at all.
This is what’s hard to explain, how quickly I could vacillate between being a little girl and being a teenager and being a woman, because of the way they had robbed me of my freedom. There was no way to behave like an adult, since they wouldn’t treat me like an adult, so I would regress and act like a little girl; but then my adult self would step back in — only my world didn’t allow me to be an adult.
The woman in me was pushed down for a long time. They wanted me to be wild onstage, the way they told me to be, and to be a robot the rest of the time. I felt like I was being deprived of those good secrets of life — those fundamental supposed sins of indulgence and adventure that make us human. They wanted to take away that specialness and keep everything as rote as possible. It was death to my creativity as an artist.
On June 23, 2021, Spears testified in open court, pleading with the judge to end the conservatorship. Her father was suspended as her conservator in September, and two months later, Spears’ conservatorship was terminated.
It took a long time and a lot of work for me to feel ready to tell my story. I hope it inspires people on some level and can touch hearts. Since I’ve been free, I’ve had to construct a whole different identity. I’ve had to say, Wait a second, this is who I was — someone passive and pleasing. A girl. And this is who I am now — someone strong and confident. A woman
'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.
'He said we weren’t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young. I’m sure people will hate me for this, but I agreed not to have the baby. 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.'
Posted by: Slayer 17th October 2023, 10:45 PM
Posted by: Jessie Where 19th October 2023, 01:40 PM
"Shaken by the traumatic experience, Britney ‘cried and sobbed’ on the bathroom floor – so her then-boyfriend began to play his guitar to try and ‘help’."
Wow, he really is a next-level scumbag :/
Posted by: Tafty³³³ 19th October 2023, 03:27 PM
The next snippet to come out is that he broke up with her through text…
It’s not looking good for him right before the TROLLS press tour…
Posted by: Nick F1 19th October 2023, 04:03 PM
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Posted by: spiceboy 19th October 2023, 04:08 PM
I mean we all knew he was a total douche after how he used Britney to elevate his own career, to find out he then cheated on her after the whole Cry me a river thing, plus encouraged her to have an abortion and dumped her by text... scumbag.
Posted by: Slayer 19th October 2023, 04:09 PM
Sooo many things have been leaked in a recent NYT article, I won’t post though.
Posted by: Slayer 20th October 2023, 05:06 PM
Posted by: Blond 2.0 23rd October 2023, 04:04 PM
He also cheated on her with the girl from All Saints anyway so the whole Nsync crap reunion is because he's afraid of the book I really can't stand him anymore
Posted by: -Jay- 24th October 2023, 05:01 PM
Earlier today my book arrived from Amazon... damaged. Like not just a little bit, the cover sleeve was bent/ripped quite considerably, and the actual hardback book itself was dented.
I've already returned it and now have to wait for the replacement. Sigh, I was looking forward to starting the book!
Posted by: Slayer 25th October 2023, 07:26 AM
Ahh so sorry Jay!!
I’m loving the book so far, not finished it yet though!
Also what a legend!
Posted by: Tafty³³³ 25th October 2023, 07:33 AM
3.2m being rumoured for first day sales!!!
Posted by: One_For_Sorrow 25th October 2023, 07:37 AM
Downloaded the audiobook today. Will need to wait for the weekend to listen to it though, got a bit on til then.
Posted by: schizo_spice 25th October 2023, 10:44 PM
QUOTE(Tafty³³³ @ Oct 25 2023, 08:33 AM)
3.2m being rumoured for first day sales!!!
Wow crazy and she’s not even personally promoted it.
I guess her name pulls a lot of weight still.
Posted by: Tafty³³³ 25th October 2023, 11:54 PM
I’d probably argue that her life is by far the most interesting (both good and bad) for a celebrity. One of the most prolific stars of all time but still so much people weren’t *really* aware of!
Also, I’m not a reader, really. But I’m actually really loving this so far (I’m up to Chapter 17 where she’s about to go into ‘In The Zone’ era.)
Will give full thoughts when I’ve finished but yeah. I’m most intrigued about everything from K-Fed onwards, personally. So I’m getting right up to that point!
Posted by: spiceboy 26th October 2023, 02:23 AM
I'm really looking forwards to reading this!
Posted by: One_For_Sorrow 26th October 2023, 05:07 AM
QUOTE(Tafty³³³ @ Oct 25 2023, 11:54 PM)
I’d probably argue that her life is by far the most interesting (both good and bad) for a celebrity. One of the most polific stars of all time but still so much people weren’t *really* aware of!
Also, I’m not a reader, really. But I’m actually really loving this so far (I’m up to Chapter 17 where she’s about to go into ‘In The Zone’ era.)
Will give full thoughts when I’ve finished but yeah. I’m most intrigued about everything from K-Fed onwards, personally. So I’m getting right up to that point!
It sounds like she covers each album era, which I was hoping she would or does do.
Posted by: Slayer 26th October 2023, 12:47 PM
Absolutely loved the book.
She has been through so much, I don't think I could have handled what she went through.
She is so freaking strong, so proud of her!
Posted by: Tafty³³³ 26th October 2023, 01:36 PM
Oh man! The ITZ era was a horribly dark time for her! She hated the Onyx Tour! I’m so sad coz it’s such an iconic tour
But they were moving her too fast through big events that happened in her life so she crashed! I hate (most of) the people around her. Ugh.
Edit/“: She’s so funny though! I think it’s unintentionally funny too lmao.
“[K Fed] really thought he was a rapper now. Bless his heart..”
D E A D
Posted by: One_For_Sorrow 28th October 2023, 01:50 AM
I’m currently up to chapter 7, a really good listen so far. Very interesting.
Posted by: The Haunted Hole 28th October 2023, 12:20 PM
QUOTE(spiceboy @ Oct 19 2023, 04:08 PM)
I mean we all knew he was a total douche after how he used Britney to elevate his own career, to find out he then cheated on her after the whole Cry me a river thing, plus encouraged her to have an abortion and dumped her by text... scumbag.
We Brirney fans knew it from day one. He also let Janet Jackson take all the flack over a nipple. He's a next level misogynistic scumbag.
Posted by: Slayer 31st October 2023, 09:34 AM
Posted by: Melancholia 31st October 2023, 10:37 AM
I hope they don't aim for a Britney "lookalike" but when Millie Bobby Brown had blonde hair I instantly thought she'd be a good Britney
Posted by: Slayer 31st October 2023, 11:29 PM
Posted by: Nick F1 1st November 2023, 11:05 AM
From ukmix
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The woman in me topped audio charts in the uk too, it’s total first week uk sales are 170,000 copies
this makes it her best selling week ever in the uk! GH:MP shifted 123k first week
Posted by: Slayer 1st November 2023, 11:31 AM
Oh wow incredible!
Posted by: Jessie Where 1st November 2023, 11:38 AM
QUOTE
this makes it her best selling week ever in the uk! GH:MP shifted 123k first week
Not taking BOMT single into account I'm guessing?
Posted by: LoveMeDown 1st November 2023, 01:46 PM
The Woman in Me in the UK: Week 1: 90,656 print copies, 170,000 across all formats, Fastest-selling Simon & Schuster title
Posted by: Slayer 1st November 2023, 01:57 PM
Another #1
Posted by: Slayer 1st November 2023, 10:05 PM
Officially #1 New York Times Best Seller!!
Posted by: Slayer 1st November 2023, 11:05 PM
1.1 million in the US
Posted by: LoveMeDown 2nd November 2023, 01:45 AM
2.4 million globally, per the publishers.
Posted by: Jessie Where 2nd November 2023, 12:38 PM
Bought myself a copy to read on the plane at the weekend!
Posted by: Slayer 3rd November 2023, 07:44 PM
Posted by: Tafty³³³ 7th November 2023, 04:35 PM
HOW f***ING VILE?????
Posted by: Slayer 7th November 2023, 04:52 PM
He’s so disgusting!
On a positive note:
Posted by: spiceboy 7th November 2023, 08:49 PM
QUOTE(Tafty³³³ @ Nov 7 2023, 04:35 PM)
HOW f***ING VILE?????
He is gross. Ok for Justin to talk and trash her rep but not her? Misogynistic w*n**r.
Posted by: Nick Jonas 7th November 2023, 09:36 PM
Jamie Lynn is flying to Australia for IAC
Posted by: Slayer 7th November 2023, 11:13 PM
QUOTE(Nick Jonas @ Nov 7 2023, 09:36 PM)
Jamie Lynn is flying to Australia for IAC
Please god no, not her ruining my show.
Atleast I can vote for her to do dreadful trials though!
Posted by: LoveMeDown 9th November 2023, 01:08 AM
Second week at #1 on NYT!
Posted by: Slayer 9th November 2023, 07:31 PM
Posted by: Nick F1 9th November 2023, 10:08 PM
Smash.
Posted by: Sour Candy 10th November 2023, 08:25 AM
Finished the book. It is poorly written, but the story is important as such.
Posted by: LoveMeDown 10th November 2023, 08:33 PM
QUOTE(Sour Candy @ Nov 10 2023, 08:25 AM)
Finished the book. It is poorly written, but the story is important as such.
What about it is poorly written?
Posted by: Sour Candy 11th November 2023, 05:42 AM
It might be because of the translation, as I didn't read it in English, and I would assume the translator did it very fast. But it's also kinda one long interview by Sam Lansky.
Posted by: LoveMeDown 11th November 2023, 06:03 PM
Yeah, definitely seems like a big issue translation issue because some fans in Germany and France have been complaining about that too. But I would say the original version is anything but poorly written.
Posted by: Sour Candy 11th November 2023, 06:07 PM
Oh good to know.. Maybe I should read it in English
Posted by: LoveMeDown 16th November 2023, 01:52 AM
#1 for a third week in the US, blocking Barbra Streisand's memoir. Insane.
Posted by: Sempachorra 18th November 2023, 06:51 PM
So her favorite song is "Before The Goodbye", what a banger. She regrets it wasnt a single, and so do I
Posted by: Tafty³³³ 18th November 2023, 10:17 PM
Before The Goodbye is so so so underrated!
Posted by: Sempachorra 18th November 2023, 10:34 PM
QUOTE(Tafty³³³ @ Nov 18 2023, 10:17 PM)
Before The Goodbye is so so so underrated!
An easy #1 hit for her in 2001 imo
Posted by: One_For_Sorrow 19th November 2023, 04:15 AM
Before the Goodbye is great. A highlight from its album.
Posted by: Nick F1 7th December 2023, 09:15 PM
Posted by: JackFrost's Nips 8th December 2023, 04:51 PM
Oh my! Don't tell Ego Spice!!!
Posted by: spiceboy 30th December 2023, 12:08 PM
QUOTE(Sour Candy @ Nov 10 2023, 08:25 AM)
Finished the book. It is poorly written, but the story is important as such.
I am reading it now and I agree it's very poorly written. Does not go into depth about her career at all totally skims it, and it jumps back and forth at times, also the language itself is quite weak, quite basic. It's still an incredibly important story and I feel so much sympathy for her reading it, but the ghostwriter did not do a good job at all.
Posted by: Nick F1 8th January 2024, 06:51 PM
Posted by: Anita Hanjaab 8th January 2024, 07:03 PM
What, no Geri Halliwell and David Walliams, with all their, um, "talent"?! They'll be RAGING!!
Posted by: Slayer 11th January 2024, 07:36 PM
“My book has officially sold over 2 million copies in the US!!! Thank you to all the fans who have supported me and my story. Love you All!!!” Spears says in the statement.
I wanna apologize for some of the things I wrote about in my book. If I offended any of the people I genuinely care about I am deeply sorry… I also wanted to say I am in love with Justin Timberlake’s new song “Selfish” 🌹 It is soo good and how come every time I see Justin and Jimmy together I laugh so hard ???
Ps “Sanctified” is wow 🤩 too
🎥: @fallontonight
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I really don't think she needed to apologise for anything, I wonder what's making her feel regretful today?
Posted by: -Jay- 1st February 2024, 06:29 AM
Following on from Britney’s apology…
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I'd like to take this opportunity to apologize to absolutely f---ing nobody," Timberlake said right before performing his 2002 song "Cry Me a River."
Read More: Justin Timberlake Apologizes to 'Absolutely Nobody' During Show | https://popcrush.com/justin-timberlake-apologizes-nobody-irving-plaza/
I can’t.
Posted by: spiceboy 1st February 2024, 08:50 AM
She really has nothing to apologise for while, yet again, he is a selfish arrogant prick. I cannot stand him anymore.
Posted by: One_For_Sorrow 1st February 2024, 09:27 AM
Have to agree, that was completely unnecessary.
What was the point other than try to make himself seem superior?
Posted by: Tafty³³³ 1st February 2024, 11:54 AM
He really is abhorrent. I don't understand why he felt the need to do that other than to get a cheap viral moment...
He's so fucking trash!
All he had to do was say that the "past is in the past - there are no hard feelings" etc.. (if he HAD to open his damn mouth) or should've just kept his mouth shut and said "this is 'Cry Me A River'"
Posted by: Slayer 1st February 2024, 06:14 PM
Yesss queen!
Posted by: Tafty³³³ 1st February 2024, 06:39 PM
Would love for this gem to get it’s moment!
Posted by: Jessie Where 1st February 2024, 07:27 PM
We all knew how hollow JT's previous apology was and that he only made it 20 years later because the Free Britney movement was gathering momentum and made him look bad... this proves it conclusively!
Posted by: Anita Hanjaab 1st February 2024, 07:39 PM
8've NEVER liked him. Always came across as totallybuntalented, arrogant, deceitful, and ready to throw any woman under the bus to further his solo career ambitions!!! He built his entire career- AAALL of it - on bashing Britney and using her name!!! Vile.
Posted by: spiceboy 1st February 2024, 08:16 PM
Go Britney that's more like it.
Posted by: Slayer 15th March 2024, 06:22 PM
Posted by: Anita Hanjaab 15th March 2024, 06:57 PM
I'm so ready for this. I hope it proves to be a cathartic experience for Britney.
Like not just a little bit, the cover sleeve was bent/ripped quite considerably, and the actual hardback book itself was dented.
