The girl sang in the church choir

Britney Spears' memoirs - about drugs, Abuez and faith in God

“The Woman in Me” appeared on sale on October 24 and parted in the amount of over 1.1 million copies in the first week - only an autobiography of recently died Matthew Perry shifted them from first place in the top of sales in the United States. The memoirs came out 25 years after their debut with the single “... Baby One More Time”, and were written with the help of several Gostostarites. This, however, did not prevent the book from becoming a collection of personal revelations-and at the same time a statement about the inside of the life of the celebrity and industry of pop music.

While filmmakers are fighting for the adaptation of Bestseller Book, and the former boyfriend of singer Justin Timberlake closes comments on social networks, Britney herself with already familiar immediacy shows outfits to the Instagram subscribers. “Freedom means that I can be as excellent imperfect as everyone else,” she writes in the book and follows her own affirmations while readers are horrified by her many years of tests.

The literary blockbuster of 49 chapters begins with a story about childhood, in which Britney already dreams of success. Prustov’s sketches of family everyday life complement psychoanalytic remarks: the paternal grandfather was unfair with his wives and son, and Britney's parents reproduced this model. The alcoholic father never appreciated the children, and even when Britney was already world famous and the whole family lived at her expense, the father’s attitude towards her daughter did not change. Usually, in such stories about professional take-off, relatives-rags remain the detail of the dark past. But in the life of Spears, the shadow of the father remained with her until 2021. The singer tells in detail the story that had opened a few years ago about how the father, under the pretext of the singer’s mental problems, received guardianship over her and for 13 years not only disposed of the property of her daughter, but also controlled her life and career.

Love shocks are also rooted in childhood. Britney meets his future partner Justin Timberlake on the set of children's television program “Mickey Mouse Club”. The couple’s relations develop synchronously with the development of their quarry: Timberlake performs with the NSYNC Boyz-Bend, and Britney releases the first disk, and young people come closer when they go to promotions together. At the beginning of the zero, Timberlake parted with Britney along the SMS and leaves the relationship with a beautiful legend of a broken heart, which helps the singer to start a solo career with a sad hit “Cry Me a River”. According to the singer, they and Justin cheated on each other, but a truly difficult moment in their relationship was a drug abortion that Britney made at home at the insistence of Timberlake in 2000. According to the singer, the partner was not ready to become a father and opposed an abortion in the hospital, since no one should have learned about it.

Britney did not talk about the aborted pregnancy from Timberlae earlier, and this fragment of memoirs appeared in the PEOPLE publication on the eve of the official release. Timberlake had to close the comments on his Instagram page. He himself has not yet spoken about the situation.

The story with that long -standing abortion is heavier that the singer was again preparing to become a mother again, but she had a miscarriage.

Although in the 2000s on the career front, Britney was fine, after a heavy parting with Justin Timberlak, a gloomy period began. She married rapper Kevin Federlin and gave birth to two sons, but after the divorce, her husband began to forbid Britney to see children. Due to family scandals, the paparazzi watched the singer more and more aggressively, and it became more and more difficult to speak on stage. Finally, the native family condemned the singer for a “party” lifestyle, and Britney, according to her, tried to hide from personal problems in him. Then the relatives presented Spears inadequate and through the court gained control over her life. According to the singer, the next 13 years she existed as a robot: under the rule of her father, resigned to this for the forces of seeing her sons. Fans helped the singer, who began to widely discuss the problem with excessive guardianship in social networks, and a good lawyer.

Suddenly, Britney pays great attention in his book to spiritual experience. “The Bible says that language is your sword,” the singer emphasizes the significance of singing in her life, but the expression is not just a beautiful biblical quote. Britney begins his work in the church choir, and Gospel becomes its first vivid vocal impression. When the singer is faced with public criticism, she addresses the series of books by Neil Donald Walsh “Conversations with God”. After breaking up with Timberla at Britney, he and his friend go to the desert, and the trip pushes her to think in the spirit of New Age. Madonna devotes Britney Spears to Kabbalah through a ritual with a red thread and gives her books for prayers, and Britney herself makes a tattoo with one of the names of God in Hebrew. “I never had strict religious views,” the singer notes in the book, but in the last chapters admits that the period under the care of her father became a test for her faith.

Britney is trying to challenge the stereotype that has arisen in the media about his drug addiction and directly tells the history of his relations with substances. In 2000, the singer began to take an antidepressant prose. After a divorce from Kevin Federlin in the life of the singer, Adderol appeared. Litius is prescribed for forced treatment in the 2010s in the 2010s, and a whole family story is connected with this:

Once the singer’s grandmother was also sent to the hospital to be treated with lithium after the loss of the child, and later the woman shot himself.

In separate episodes, the Britney’s book Spears is full of “simple truths”, and there is a feeling that the text is slightly outdated. “Even on the darkest night you can find a lot of light,” the singer writes, and you feel either in the statuses of the early VKontakte, or in the thick of the cards from relatives from WhatsApp. The content of such psychologically loaded texts really does not change over time - but the book Spears with the current content is difficult to imagine in a world where the question of whether the girl had her breasts was seriously interested in the audience, and a sudden haircut seemed like a sign of madness.

Perhaps the strongest element in the narrative is not the presence of sensational details, but the lack of stories about suicidal thoughts. Perhaps Britney simply retains the rhetorical correctness that she could learn to read non-fiction about a caring attitude towards herself. But the autobiography contains many sharp statements, and among them there is no hint of the desire to surrender, stop the struggle for children or their own subjectivity. With attitudes in the spirit of “Find love and settling” and “fight for the right” Britney Spears looks almost a Balaban heroine - only the terrible world of her life is most realistic in the animated series “South Park”. In this light, “The Woman in Me” looks like a modern story about the patient Griseld, which suddenly turned out to be at the hand of the Addroela.

Britney Spears herself notes that singing allows her to express much more than speech. The singer calls Instagram for the most frank communication with fans. "So and why the book?" - You can ask. Today it became familiar that celebrities write books about themselves in the format of “intermediate serifs” on the life path. The autobiography of Britney seems to be a rare case when the author really summarizes some result. But if this is usually done in the final of a bright period, then the Pop Drints of the 2000s is more likely hoping to start everything again.

Perhaps in the memoirs about the next stage of the life of Britney Spears, there will no longer be stories about leadership in music charts. But the path in show business is not in the spotlight and now: “The Woman in Me” tells about the first broken heels and migraines, about the love of food and sex during pregnancy, about self-perception in relations with the child. A woman of any profession could write this book-only now the status of a pop star still leaves much more chances to be heard. Now the singer, according to her, will go through the crisis of identity. It seems that her experience will become more and more personal - time changes the idea of ​​success. Today, envy is no longer so much hits as freedom to live the way you yourself want.