Britney Spear's book

[Mooshamoo]

Her autobiography is out today. Did anyone read it. Honestly it's shocking.

What they put her through under the conservatorship. It's really awful. It's nearly unbelievable.

She wasn't allowed to eat what she wanted. She wasn't allowed to see her children.

Her father would lock her up in psychiatric centres if she disagreed with him .

Really awful.

I cant help but think the fame so young, the controlling of her life, her conservatorship and other factors, the life under a microscope has made her the way she is now. Is a big factor on her mental state/her child likeness, i think that is why she doesnt function like most adults do. I think had she had someone care for her properly, not place her under conservatorship, help her with her mental well being when it all first started instead of locking her away. She would more than likely be totally different to how she is now. I dont think she would have ended up as ill as she is now. She has been abused her whole life and the conservatorship was abuse. She will never lead a normalish life because it has never been normal for her, how is she to know any different (I mean normal as in as normal as celebrity can get) I do believe she is as she is now because of the abuse, I dont think she would have ended up this way if she got proper help of professionals. That conservatorship was a disgusting thing to do to her

@YouveGotAFastCar m not sure a book was a good idea. She feels she’s told her side of the story now so hopefully she’ll get some closure from that; but I can’t see any benefits to her other than that.

Besides closure, more fame, getting out her voice and the millions rolling in that this book is giving her? I only see benefits here 🤣

The bits I read were not what I would call well written- the language is very simple and reminds me of a teenage blog. Not that simple has to be bad, but it is a book written by someone with a mentality of a teenager as that's where I think she sort of stopped. Unless there is a lot more written by a ghostwriter?
Not invalidating her points she makes.

Someone who is so mentally unwell they require the extreme deprivation of liberty a conservatorship involves is not someone who was well enough to be working to the extent she was. I'm sure the actual situation is very complex, but in a nutshell that tells me everything.

Not a Brittney fan and won't be reading the book, but I have an interest in mental health, hence reading and commenting.

Exactly, the bits you read. I’m assuming the bits they have online are the more salacious extracts?
As I said, I’m listening, Michelle Williams has done an excellent job, she makes the words very vivid and heartbreaking, I used the free month in audible to listen to it so maybe it reads different but hearing her descriptions the of depriving her of her children, a mothers desperation. I think it’s very well written.

I feel so desperately sorry for Britney. She was sexualised from a very young age and used as a cash cow by her family. No wonder she has mental health problems. She has been treated appallingly by those that were meant to love and protect her.

Why cos she dances in her underwear to songs and hurts no one? Yet we have people like donald trump who Incites hate and riots and hurts and killa people talks a load of rubbish and no one calls him mental.
i get really annoyed when people call her crazy just for doing a bit of dancing!

Exactly, Britney Spears dancing in her underwear, gosh!! The horrors! Mental health issues is the only explanation 🤣

I’m skimming reading most posts. So much misogyny and “man knows best” crap!!!

Brittney grew up in an abusive family. She had post-natal depression. She had her children removed by an abusive husband. Then, her bankrupt father got control of her body and mind and money. He was using her children for further control. He finally had her institutionalised and given lithium. Further abuse.

I think she has a right to spin on the spot!!

Why are so many posters determined to discredit her as a liar and deserving of what she got? Are they paid/bots? Or just internalised misogyny?

@Mooshamoo look op I agree with you - the whole conservatorship was awful and abusive. A heartbreaking and unfair situation and I'm glad she is out of it.

But you have literally just read one book. A selective account of things. So she wasn't allowed to drive. Well I bet it didn't also mention in her book that she was shaving her head and then driving around with one of her children on her lap in the drivers seat. So maybe now that we know that the no driving thing maybe wasn't so bad!

Haven’t read the book but I’ve always been appalled that the court gave her dad that level of control over her. Very fucked up especially the bit about him forcing her to have a coil.

I’m so interested in this. Whenever a woman is treated badly by a man, the majority of commenters seem to be women piling on to side with the man and blame the woman. I think it must come from a place of fear. “That could never happen to me because I agree with the men, which makes me safe.” 🤷‍♀️

Honestly if you read the book and seen what she went through, the whole world blaming her for JT split and making out she was the bad guy, having her kids taken by Kevin for no reason, dvorces, controlled by her dad and having a tough upbringing from her alcoholic Dad then I think most people would have gone crazy and all of this with everyone watching you and wanting a piece of you. Obviously I don't know her personally but she really seems like a nice, sweet girl and it's so sad how she changed and I hope she doesn't commit suicide one day

Being mentally unwell doesn't make her a liar??

If anything, the state of her mental health is further evidence of the abuse she's suffered, she's not in this condition for no reason.

She testified under oath about much of the abuse, and a court released her from the conservatorship - now, because she's so clearly mentally ill a victim she's to be disbelieved?

I find this bizarre and haven't seen any reason to 'take her word with a pinch of salt'.

I agree, its all of this piled on relentlessly with no break that has compromised her mental health long term.
She was hounded by the press, used by her family, deeply hurt by how the two men she loved treated her after the relationships ended and lost custody of dp young children as a result of all the chaos.
She spoke very eloquently when dealing with the conservatorship which seems very at odds with her instagram posts.
What a pity she didn't have one person in her life who loves her enough to put her first and not just see her as a cash machine. Shame on her parents. It's also a double shame because her sons have lost out on having a stable mother figure in their lives. I hope what they're witnessed doesn't impact them mentally going forward.

Being mentally unwell doesn’t automatically mean you cannot state fact or put across your point of view. It doesn’t mean you don’t know what your own needs are. It doesn’t mean that you can’t advocate for yourself.

perpetuating the idea that someone isn’t to believed because they are mentally unwell/outside of the “norm” is a dangerous viewpoint… there is a disproportionate amount of people with learning disability and mental ill health who ARE abused and taken advantage of, then not believed because people take what they are saying with “a pinch of salt”. I thought we knew better than that at this point.

This was written in 2021 (while she was still in the conservatorship) and there are people who worked as hairdresser or housemaids who corroborate what she's written in the book published in 2023

https://www.newyorker.com/news/american-chronicles/britney-spears-conservatorship-nightmare

The article I posted mentions Britney writing a letter and asking her friend (the photographer in the video posted below) to get it made pubic, unfortunately Jamie found out about it and the letter want allowed to get made pubic. He kept a copy and here he is reading it

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/tvshowbiz/video-2209268/Video-Britney-Spears-photographer-reads-letter-conservatorship.html

She’s got a bad relationship with her sons. Had anyone heard her arguments with them that were recorded in the car? Plus they ask her to stop with the dancing and naked or semi naked photos but she continues.
I think they also deserve some sympathy.

I haven’t read the book and have no desire to.

But let’s be honest, it’s actually common for parents of talented children to exploit them and in many instances to send them off the rails.

Look at Michael Jackson and all the Jackson’s for that matter. Clearly the products of an abusive parent who used them for his own gain. And whatever people think of Michael Jackson, it is undeniable that he was in part the person he was because of his childhood.
The Williams sisters were clearly the puppets of their father who essentially made them the stars they became. Yes they had talent but there is 0 doubt that he wanted them to be stars, felt they should be, pushed them into it.

In fact it’s rare for any childhood star to grow up into a well rounded adult without severe effects from the childhoods they’ve had, and what being a star so young has meant for them as adults.

I’m a big Britney fan but she doesn’t take responsibility for anything in the book. I actually found it draining to read that constantly.
K-FED was part of the downfall of her public image as he left a child/8 month pregnant fiancé to be with Britney. She says in the book she didn’t know about it (can only assume this is a lie) but even if it wasn’t a lie she CHOSE to stay with him after she found out he did this. She states he did a number on her - no accountability from Britney at all for running past all the red flags so she could do/have what she wanted.

I’ve seen her instagram. Why are people saying she’s mentally unwell? I wouldn’t post what she posts but, I mean, has anyone looked at Madonna’s feed over the years?

She strikes me as someone who hasn’t much matured beyond the age she was when she became famous.

Britney clearly wasn’t well after she had her 2nd baby, probably a combination of things: PND, marriage breaking down, being pregnant for basically 2 years straight, intense media coverage that was always, always negative… and by that time she had been taking Prozac for years according to her book.

It’s so telling and so fucking sad that when she was at her lowest and needed help- therapy, maybe her meds tweaking, and the love and support from those around her, her husband leaves and takes the babies, effectively using them as a way to get more from his divorce settlement, her mum writes a book about parenting(!) off the back of her daughter’s fame, her dad takes complete control over her entire life and every single member of her immediate family is complicit. All of them.

The incident with the abortion… I wonder how much of a choice she thought she had? Not just pressure from Justin (who is a piece of actual shit) but from others if they had found out? I’m sure I read somewhere that when Judy Garland was of a similar age and newly married the studio she was with made her have an abortion against her will so she would continue to work. Really how women are treated, even “powerful” women, is disgusting.

@StoneWashJeansWithAMatchingJacket agree with all of that.