Britney Spears’ new memoir, The Woman in Me, officially hit shelves this week, with the singer revealing a lot (and we mean, a lot) of previo
, officially hit shelves this week, with the singer revealing a lot of previously unknown information.
“I had been so infantilised that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself,” she continues, adding that the conservatorship “stripped of womanhood”. “ made me into a child.” Perhaps influenced by Jamie’s own struggles with alcohol, Britney admits that she was drinking and smoking by the age of 13.On the topic of the #FreeBritney movement, the singer says she first heard about the whole thing while in rehab – something Jamie Spears had pushed for.
“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.”Explaining why she shaved her head, Britney says it was because she was “out of mind with grief”. “Everyone thought it was hilarious.Even my parents acted embarrassed by me. But nobody seemed to understand that I was simply out of my mind with grief.
Claiming that it was nothing more than “innocent fun”, Spears says she was shocked at how the public and her family reacted to the whole thing.Spears married backup dancer Kevin Federline in September 2004, giving birth to sons – Sean and Jayden – in 2005 and 2006. Admitting that she had post-natal depression after having Jayden, the singer says she hopes that her story might help others who are going through from something similar.