With only a week to go until the release of Britney Spears’ highly-anticipated memoir, The Woman in Me, early-release quotes are giving fans a taste of the realness that’s headed their way.
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Excerpts from the book shared by Spears are a peek at just how raw she gets in the tell-all book, including details about her 14-year conservatorship under her father.
“Thirteen years went by with me feeling like a shadow of myself,” she shares as a direct quote from the book. "I think back now on my father and his associates having control over my body and my money for that long and it makes me feel sick… Think of how many male artists gambled all their money away; how many had substance abuse or mental health issues. No one tried to take away their control over their bodies and money. I didn’t deserve what my family did to me.”
In addition to sharing details around her highly-public conservatorship and her road to freedom, Spears also opens up about her rise to fame before the conservatorship and her last acts of “freedom.” One of those acts was Spears shaving her head in 2007, an act she defined as “pushing back.”
“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 writes. “Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of pushing back.”
Spears’ memoir, The Woman in Me, is available for pre-sale now and will be available to the public beginning October 24.