1. Justin Timberlake broke up with her – by text
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One of Britney’s most famous relationships was with pop star Justin Timberlake, and the memoir reveals the truth of how that relationship ended – namely, via a two word text message that read: “it’s over”. Justin sent the text to Britney while she was in the middle of working on a music video.
2. But Britney admits she cheated on him with Wade Robson
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The biggest rumour about the split was that Britney had hooked up with choreographer, Wade Robson. It was never confirmed for certain at the time, but now Britney herself has revealed the truth: she made out with Wade, once, one night, after being faithful to Justin every moment of their relationship other than that.
3. Britney had an ab*rtion at aged 19
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Britney has revealed that she fell pregnant unexpectedly when she was 19, during her relationship with Justin Timberlake. She made the difficult decision to terminate the pregnancy because she didn’t think Justin was ready to be a dad, and that the pair were too young at 19.
4. She tried to keep it secret – and feared she would be judged
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Britney didn’t want anyone to know about the ab*rtion, even her own family, so was forced to do it in secret at home. She had to go through the harrowing experience alone, and details how painful it was, and her fears that she would be judged after being brought up in a religious family.
5. The real reason she shaved her head
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One of the most infamous moments in Britney’s past was when she shaved her head and appeared to have a public meltdown – which then led to her being put into a conservatorship for 13 years. Explaining that moment, Britney has revealed that she’d been “eyeballed” her whole life and had people telling her what they thought of her looks, that shaving her head was her way of pushing against it all.
6. Under the conservatorship for her mental health, she had to get back into shape
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The conservatorship came a year later, with her father and a lawyer having complete control. While Britney might have been able to shave her head freely in an act of rebellion, under the conservatorship she was told what to do – and this included being made to grow her hair back, and get into shape.
7. She felt like her father controlled her body
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During the gruelling conservatorship, Britney was victim to not only her father’s control, but his jibes about the way she looked, and her weight. She admits she felt like her own father controlled her body, and that he would make fat jokes at her expense.
8. Her family made her feel sick and like a “child robot”
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The treatment Britney was party to growing up made her feel “sick”, and she admits that she lost so much of herself that she felt like a “child robot” and that she was never good enough, admitting it was soul-crushing as a child to feel that way – and even after everything she’d achieved.
9. She was forced to take medication against her will
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At one point during the conservatorship, Britney was allowed to return to work, but still wasn’t in control of her personal life – which meant she was still being told what to do. This included being forced to take medication, as well as to take birth control, against her will.
10. She went along with it all so that she could see her children
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The reason that Britney did what she was told and went along with what she was forced to do was her children: she went along with the terms because she wanted to be given the right to spend time with her two sons, Sean and Jayden. “My freedom in exchange for naps with my children – it was a trade I was willing to make.”
11. She once locked herself and sons in a bathroom so Kevin Federline couldn’t get them
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Kevin Federline was Britney’s ex-husband, and the father of their boys, and at one point he was granted sole legal and physical custody of the children. This happened in 2008 after Britney had locked herself in a bathroom with her two sons because she didn’t want Kevin to take them. She was hospitalised soon after.
12. The strains of the conservatorship stopped her from doing the music she wanted
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Although Britney was still allowed to return to music while still under the conservatorship, that didn’t mean that she had any sort of freedom with that, either. Her album, Glory, was one she was most proud of, because it was made solely based on what she wanted, but the albums before that she’d been restricted to never making the music she really wanted to make.
13. When she tried to speak out about it on a chat show, she was silenced
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Britney appeared on the Jonathan Ross Show in 2016 to discuss her new album, and she spoke candidly about the conservatorship while she was there, explaining how restricting it had been and how she’d been stopped from doing what she wanted. In the end, that part of the show never made it to air, seemingly being cut.
14. Sister Jamie-Lynn told Britney to stop fighting against it
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Britney didn’t just have a bad relationship with her father – she had a troubled one with sister, Jamie-Lynn. According to the memoir, Jamie-Lynn had told Britney to stop fighting against the conservatorship and go along with what they wanted, even though Britney had texted her sister for help.
15. Britney felt like the “ghost child” growing up
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Britney has also explained how she felt like the “ghost chid” in the family growing up, because Jamie-Lynn was the apparent favourite and parents acted as though Britney was barely there. She explained that she could walk into a room and nobody would notice, and that her sister “ruled the roost”.
16. She thought her father and sister were going to kill her
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Due to the growing tension between her and her sister, and Jamie-Lynn taking their father’s side, there was a time when Britney’s thoughts turned frightened: “This will sound crazy, but I’ll say it again because it’s the truth: I thought they were going to try to kill me.”
17. She’s scared of snakes – and that famous I’m a Slave 4 U performance terrified her
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One of the most iconic performances of Britney’s is the VMA performance of I’m a Slave 4 U with the white python. The star made it look so effortless, but what was really going through her head? Well, apparently she was scared, and with the snake hissing near her face, she had to stay focused!
18. She had her privacy massively invaded during her conservatorship
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Not only did the conservatorship invade everything she loved – with her father taking full control of her music – but she had her privacy massively invaded, too. According to Spears, she couldn’t even take a bath in private, as well as having parental controls on her phone like she was a child.
19. Her rocky relationship with Justin and knowing he’d cheated
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At the time of their relationship, Britney was seen in the media as the unfaithful one, with rumours about her and Wade as well as Justin’s song ‘Cry Me a River’ hinting he’d been cheated on. Britney details how she knew Justin himself had cheated on her, but let it slide because she wanted to stay with him.
20. She blasts Christina Aguilera after Justin split
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In 2003, fellow pop star Christina Aguilera teamed up with Justin for The Justified & Stripped tour, including them posing together on a magazine cover. Britney was hurt by this seeing as it had only been a year since her split from Justin, made even worse by comments Aguilera made in the magazine interview about how she thought Britney and Justin would get back together!
