![]() ‘The Woman in Me’ is available for pre-order before its release on Oct. “After getting out of my conservatorship, I was finally free to tell my story without consequences from the people in charge of my life.” “Over the past 15 years or even at the start of my career, I sat back while people spoke about me and told my story for me,” Spears quoted to PEOPLE. Since then, she has been trying to take charge of her own destiny. Two months later, the conservatorship was dissolved.ĪLSO READ| Britney Spears says she had an abortion because ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake 'didn't want to be a father' The Music icon asked a judge to end the legal arrangement in September 2021, and Jamie was removed as her conservator. She writes in the book that those who controlled her life forced her to grow her hair back and told her to focus on fitness, “go to bed early” and take various medications. The Grammy winner was placed under a court-ordered conservatorship in 2008, which gave her father Jamie Spears and a lawyer control over her finances and personal life. “I am willing to admit that in the throes of severe postpartum depression, abandonment by my husband, the torture of being separated from my two babies, the death of my adored aunt Sandra, and the constant drumbeat of pressure from paparazzi, I’d begin to think in some ways like a child,” adds Spears in the memoir. ![]() I didn’t even really know how to take care of myself.” These painful experiences led to her erratic behavior, such as shaving her head and attacking a paparazzo’s car. “Flailing those weeks without my children, I lost it, over and over again. The ridicule that met Spears’ 2007 meltdown has since been reevaluated. “With my head shaved, everyone was scared of me, even my mom,” writes Spears in The Woman in Me. That same year, she also faced a legal dispute with her ex-husband Kevin Federline over the custody of their two sons, Sean Preston and Jayden James, who are now 18 and 17 years old.ĪLSO READ| ‘I’d been eyeballed so much…,' Britney Spears reveals why she shaved her head 16 years ago The ‘Oops!.I Did It Again’ singer writes in the book that she was “out of my mind with grief” after losing her aunt, Sandra Bridges Covington, to ovarian cancer in January 2007.
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