to feel so very unnerved by Britney’s Instagram?

[Lesserspottedmama]

Just that. I rarely use Instagram but found myself scrolling Britney Spears account today. It’s incredibly unnerving. She is clearly very very unwell. I found some of her videos disturbing and hard to watch.

I’m laughing at the irony of this discussion. This intrusive speculation is PART of the reason things are the way they are. Us the public thinking we have a right to know what’s going on in her life and creating our own ignorant and superficial judgements. Leave this poor woman alone. Who knows what’s going on in her life.

@Babochan88 I get what you mean and of course some papparazzi etc are awful. Britney posts to communicate with the public though. Sometimes she is deliberately hinting stuff about her situation etc, and she does care what people think of her at least in as much as it might help her get out of the situation. She probably likes feeling that some people are on her side.

This doesn't look like so done with dementia

@AKissAndASmile Is that interview that bad? And anyway it was over 4 years ago. Like Britney, I have bipolar. What I was like 4 years ago isn't what I'm like now. It varies.

AKiss I agree.
My humble opinion: she's had some major mental illness, breakdown due to pressures of toxic music industry etc, prob drug and alcohol misuse, poss post partum psychosis. Poss bipolar diagnosis. I do think her father is toxic. I think he got the conservatorship at a point when she was severely ill. I understand thete is a lot of controversy about it in the legal profession.

I'm just watching the documentary now, from the link that @Esse321 posted. The paparazzi attention is making me feel stressed. Cannot imagine how exhausting and claustrophobic it must have been to experience that day in day out.

@AKissAndASmile she comes across quite sweet there.

I have seen her recent Instagram and it’s terribly sad

Britney is not posting from that Instagram account! That's her 'team', there's no way she's in control of it. I watched a video of her posted recently via new outlet and one commenter mentioned how weird it was that her posts are always from a set point and she looks like a prisoner playing up to the cctv and it really does, someone else posted that her roots don't match up to the dates videos are posted on her Instagram and that's right too, I hadn't noticed before.
I think she's very unwell, she has been for years. I liked her in the 2000's and followed her and if you watch her early reality show Britney and Kevin when she was actually in control it was an absolute insight into her not coping with her fame, her vulnerability shines through and it does look as though she was using some form of drug, either that or her erratic behaviour was part of a mental condition that contributed to her breakdown. And then if you followed her via TMZ throughout those years it was awful, awful. She was followed, chased, goaded with her children in the car, in shops, there was the dropping/ stumbling incident with her eldest child which made mainstream news with her crying in a coffee shop after. She couldn't leave her house and at one point there was helicopter footage of her smoking by her pool IN HER OWN HOME. There was footage of her screaming at her mother. It is so so sad and I feel sorry for her and her children, no-one helped her, they just cared about the cash cow and she didn't know who to trust. Poor woman will never be free and if they did free her she'd be back to the circus that was her life back then and she'd react in the same way, feeding the sharks because no-one's actually helped her sort herself out. And they could have, she could have left the limelight then and had all the money/ time to get proper help but she was set up to do the Blackout album, then the Circus tour and her residency in Vegas which she needed like a hole in the head. She's rich, but so so poor and it's shocking.

amp.theguardian.com/music/2021/feb/08/framing-britney-spears-documentary-conservatorship-media?CMP=share_btn_tw&__twitter_impression=true Timely and interesting.

Why is this thread ok @MNHQ

It is very sad.
I was very disappointed when she lost the case against her father he is an awful man.

Just watched the documentary. I never realised the paparazzi were so awful, thats absolutely appalling.

And the interviews when she was young! Asking about her body, and boyfriends, and her virginity. Disgusting. Thank god we're post 'Me Too' now and no one would get away with asking a woman (well a girl really) such downright inappropriate questions!

Vile. The poor woman.

Omg just finished the documentary. Feel very guilty, I remember laughing about the shaving head incident. That poor poor woman.

I loved her walking onto the stage at Vegas and then carrying walking right off! Obvious what she was saying!!

Her brother!! I'm surrounded by strong minded women who want to do what they want to do! Seriously mate this isn't 1950!!

I hope poor Brittany gets what she needs, and I don't think it's her father!! The documentary didn't mention her mother much.

Not my sort of programme at all but very insightful I thought.

I watched the documentary on YouTube before it was took off today.
Poor Britney , when you see the clip of her as a child singing in her natural voice before they retrained her made me feel so sad for her . They way the press hounded her no wonder she suffered a breakdown.
They took her 2 boys from her, heartbreaking for any woman to endure. Maybe she agrees with the conservatorship just to be able to have visitation with her kids ? Who knows for sure but it is a scandal that she’s done so much work and earned so much money all whilst being too ill.

You're re 18 months late to the party on this. Her fans have noted concerning behaviour for a good while. Swaying, looking miserable & anxious, robotic obviously scripted speeches, looking to the side as though someone is there prompting her. Dishevelled & unwashed hair , looking like she's been crying etc. She's fighting to get control of her money as her Dad controls everything since her breakdown. Recentky she stated she wouldn't perform until her Dad was removed from his Conservator role. What was more disturbing was a recent documentary showed her Dad & her 'team' deciding her work schedule without her there. It was decided she'd perform on her birthday. As an adult who is the star & brings in the money, she should be included in decisions on her career & her life. It was not made clear why she wasn't there.

Watching the programme now on YouTube. Makes me sick, old man asking a 10 yr Britney if they could be her boyfriend. Chat show hosts asking about her breasts, her virginity 🤮🤬
And then the post Timberlake takedown. Misogyny unleashed.
In lots of the interviews she talks about knowing what's in her contracts, having control.

Miley Cyrus black mirror episode is far fetched but not dissimilar to what’s happening to Britney.

Urgh had to switch off with all the paparazzi and media judgement following her and her babies

I found it odd that she was tagging Justine Timberlake.

Ugh the questions about her breasts about her virginity. Diane Sawyer asking what 'she'd done to Justin'. Justifying that politician's wife saying she's shoot Britney if she had a chance because Britney's performances are apparently so overly sexual and that's a justification. Er...

The pap guy saying 'she should just asked us to stop'. Dread to think how much money he made on her smashing his car with the umbrella.

Her father and brother are clearly cut from the same cloth.

And the conservatorship lawyer was right, if she's so incapable of managing her own life that she needs a conservator then how was she so capable of working so intensely for so long after it was set up.

Misogyny and money, that's what it comes down to. This wouldn't have happened to a male artist.

This isn’t new she has been unwell for many many years but under contract to perform

I can remember years ago she made a come back performance (I think after the hair shaving incident which was absolutely shocking to see she was hounded by the press and expected to still be the pop star by her management) I remember Kayne West spoke out about her being exploited (another performer who has public struggles that have become part of the entertainment)

Poor poor women

It’s like she’s trapped in the year 2000 and can’t get out
Those weird midrif tops
The shorts you used to wear to low
The only dance moves she had, spinning the endless spinning

Harrowing. I remember her shaving her head. Some of the men in her life are awful - her father, brother, Lufti.
It reminds me of a book I read about Judy Garland. She was pumped fullof uppers, downers, diets. pulled this way and that all so a lot of people could make a lot of money. Horrible.

@SoulofanAggron sorry for the typos: 'so done' was meant to be 'someone'.

The bit where she attacked the paps with an umbrella I found upsetting. She's at the lowest ebb in her life. Desperate to see her children, clearly unwell, been told no twice (for whatever reason, it may well have been in their best interests at that time but doesn't mean it wouldn't be horribly upsetting for her) and they're still chasing her. You can hear her cousin begging them to leave her alone, and they still persist. I'm not surprised she snapped and walloped the car, to be honest I wouldn't have blamed her for whacking them one if she'd have done so. They're absolute scum. That man saying 'oh I said I'm just going to ask you a few questions then I'll leave you alone' like he was some sort of nice guy concerned for her. What bollocks.

It's like persistently and relentlessly poking and prodding someone until they snap and scream at you - that's what they did to her, then called her crazy when she reacted. I'm sure she does have serious mental health issues, but even if you don't the sanest and most reasonable person would snap after being goaded like that.