Britney Spears: Tell-all book released worldwide following Mexico ‘leak’
‘The Woman in Me’ is out now
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Your support makes all the difference.Britney Spears’s memoir is finally available to the public after pre-publication excerpts sent shockwaves through the entertainment world.
Ahead of its release on 24 October, Spears’s autobiography, titled The Woman in Me, appeared to accidentally go on sale in Mexico.
It is published by Simon and Schuster in the UK.
Among the biggest headlines to come out of the book so far are claims that Spears had an abortion while she was dating Justin Timberlake.
She also detailed the aftermath of their split, from the fallout from Timberlake’s hit song “Cry Me a River” to her fling with Irish actor Colin Farrell.
One subject that does not feature in The Woman in Me, however, is Spears’s recent divorce from ex-husband Sam Asghari after 14 months of marriage.
According to reports, Spears gave her final sign-off to Simon and Schuster mere weeks before it was announced that Asghari had filed for divorce, meaning she has “no right to demand any further changes”.
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Spears’s new memoir is shining a light on the singer’s recently concluded conservatorship.
The Woman In Me, released on Tuesday (24 October), sees the Grammy winner chronicle several chapters of her life, including the legal arrangement that previously allowed her father James (known as Jamie) control over her career, finances, and personal life.
The controversial legal arrangement came to an end in November 2021, 13 years after it was put in place in 2008.
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Britney Spears recalls father ‘repeatedly told me I looked fat’ during conservatorship
Spears wrote that her father Jamie Spears “body-shamed” her throughout her conservatorship.
In an excerpt from her memoir, The Woman in Me, the “Toxic” singer spoke candidly about the treatment she endured while under a 13-year conservatorship that began in 2008. She claimed that as she lost what little autonomy she had over her body and work, her creative spark was snuffed out.
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In the book, Spears reflects on her strained relationship with younger sister Jamie Lynn.
The singer said that she’s trying to “feel more compassion” for her younger sibling amid the upheaval that the termination of her conservatorship has caused.
The singer alleged that she texted her younger sister for help, and that Jamie Lynn wrote back: “Stop fighting it… There’s nothing you can do about it, so stop fighting it.”
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The 10 biggest revelations from singer’s new memoir
Spears has given fans an unprecedented insight into her career and personal life in her highly anticipated new memoir The Woman in Me.
Released on Tuesday 24 October, the book follows the “Oops!... I Did It Again” hitmaker as she recounts the last 20 years of her life in the spotlight – weighing in on her treatment by the media, her former romantic partners, and her controversial conservatorship.
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The Woman in Me review – Raw, unfiltered and breathtaking in its rage
In Adam White’s four-star review of the book for The Independent, he writes: “For the most part, this is a scorched-earth kiss-off to an incredibly dysfunctional family, a book so breathtaking in its rage that you can practically see the spittle on its pages.”
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Fans of the pop superstar will be disturbed by the relentlessly bleak portrait painted by her globally anticipated memoir
Sam Lansky: the ghostwriter who helped bring Britney’s troubled story to the page
The Woman in Me tells Spears’s story, but the singer reportedly had a little help in the process from American journalist and author Sam Lansky.
Having written a book about his turbulent teen years and interviewed A-listers from Adele to Madonna, he’s well placed to shepherd the star’s story, Annabel Nugent writes:
American journalist and author Sam Lansky has reportedly helped to shape Britney’s globally anticipated memoir, ‘The Woman in Me’. Having written a book about his turbulent teen years and interviewed A-listers from Adele to Madonna, he’s well placed to shepherd the star’s story, writes Annabel Nugent
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