Britney Spears, 41, has opened up about her long-running conservatorship and past relationship with Justin Timberlake ahead of the release of her highly-anticipated memoir, The Woman in Me.
Speaking to People, the Drive Me Crazy singer dropped a number of bombshells from her time during the 13-year conservatorship that officially ended in 2021.
Here’s everything you need to know ahead of her memoir, which drops October 24, including excerpts from the tell-all.
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She fell pregnant with Justin Timberlake
Spears says falling pregnant during her relationship with the ’90s boybander “was a surprise”.
“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,” she wrote.
However, she alleges Justin was “so sure that he didn’t want to be a father”, claiming he believed they were “way too young”. And ultimately, she claims they went on to have an abortion.
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The singer calls the experience one of the “most agonising things I have ever experienced in my life”.
Why she shaved her head
In 2007, Spears was seen shaving off all her hair with clippers at a hair salon. She says that moment was a way of “pushing back” against all the comments surrounding her appearance.
“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,” she explained.
According to Spears, she had grow her hair back after she officially was put under a court-ordered conservatorship a year later.
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Britney ‘drank alcohol with her mum in high school’
In an exclusive excerpt from her memoir obtained by People, Spears alleges she used to drink alcohol with her mother Lynne Spears when she was a teenager.
According the excerpt, the pair was drink daiquiris, that they called “toddies” for “fun”.
“I loved that I was able to drink with my mum every now and then,” she writes. “We became happier, more alive and adventurous.”
She was allegedly told she was fat by her dad
The superstar alleges she was subjected to hurtful comments from her dad, Jamie Spears.
”If I thought getting criticised about my body in the press was bad, it hurt even more from my own father,” Spears wrote in her memoir obtained by People.
“He repeatedly told me I looked fat and that I was going to have to do something about it,” she claims in the memoir.
“Under the conservatorship … 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.”
Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears’ parents have not yet commented on the claims made in the memoir.
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