Spears writes about everything from shaving her head in 2007 to her 13-year-long conservatorship that controlled her finances and daily life.
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Spears’ long-awaited memoir, which will be released Tuesday, has revealed bombshell secrets about the singer’s highly publicized life, according to early excerpts and reviews, including why she famously shaved her head in 2007 and her rocky relationship with Justin Timberlake.Key Facts
In The Woman In Me, Spears reveals the reason she shaved her head in 2007—an incident that garnered much media attention at the time—was because it was her way of pushing back against being “eyeballed” and having public scrutiny on her body since she was a teenager.
Spears detailed her relationship with Justin Timberlake, whom she dated between 1999 and 2002, stating she made the “agonizing” decision to have an abortion because Timberlake was not ready to have a family and that Timberlake broke up with her over text message, leaving her “devastated.”
Spears wrote she “knew Justin had cheated” but ignored it to maintain their relationship, adding she was painted as the unfaithful partner by the media (and by Timberlake’s 2002 song “Cry Me a River,” which he wrote about being cheated on) but had only once kissed choreographer Wade Robson.
She wrote that her 13-year-long conservatorship—through which her father controlled her finances and many aspects of her daily life from 2008 to 2021—made her feel like a “child-robot” and deprived her of her womanhood and her love for music, stating her father even once told her: “I’m Britney Spears now.
