Pop star Britney Spears opens up about being a parent in her memoir “The Woman In Me.”
The “Toxic” singer was married to Kevin Federline from 2004 to 2007. The former couple share two sons: Sean Preston, 18, and Jayden James, 17. In 2007, Britney went through a violent custody battle over her son, which is further complicated by the fact that he was placed under conservatorship in February 2008. He was not released from that conservatorship until November 2021.
Britney Spears Says She Approves Conservatories For Her Kids
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In an excerpt from her memoir “The Woman In Me” published by Many people magazine on Thursday night, the “Overprotected” singer claimed she’s stopped trying to fight court-ordered conservatorship to spend time with her children.
The pop princess was hospitalized twice for voluntary psychological evaluations before handing over control of her personal and financial affairs to her father, Jamie Spears. In the memoir, Britney recalled what the experience was like. “After being held on a gurney, I knew they could hold my body whenever they wanted,” she wrote. “So I followed him.”
“My freedom in exchange for a nap with my children – it’s a trade I’m willing to make,” he added. In an email interview with People magazine for their exclusive cover story, Britney said, “Starting a family is my dream come true,” adding, “Being a mom is my dream come true.”
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Although the two boys moved to Hawaii on August 1 with their father, the two boys are reportedly still in touch with their mother despite the years apart. In September 2022, Jayden spoke to the Daily Mail and said that he was interested in repairing their relationship.
“I 100% think this can be fixed. It will just take a lot of time and effort. I just want him to get better mentally. When he gets better I really want to see him again,” he said at the time before sharing why they did not attend their mother’s wedding in June 2022 with actor Sam Asghari. (The “Special Ops: Lioness” actress later filed for divorce on August 16, 2023).
“At that time it was not a good time to go. I’m not saying that I’m not happy for him,” Jayden told the outlet. “I’m so happy for them, but he didn’t invite the whole family and then if it was just me and Preston, I don’t see how that would end well.”
Britney Recalls Feeling Like a ‘Robot’ During Her Conservancy
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In another excerpt from “The Woman In Me” published by People magazine, the “Stronger” singer said that it felt like she became a “robot” under her conservatorship and noted that it was the “death” of her creativity.
“I became a robot. But not just a robot – a kind of childlike robot. I had become so childish that I lost a piece of what made me feel like myself,” she wrote. “Conservators stripped me of my femininity, made me a children. I became more of an entity than a person on stage. I always felt the music in my bones and blood; they stole that from me.”
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“This is what’s hard to explain, how quickly I can vacillate between being a little girl and being a teenager and being a woman, because of the way they’ve taken away my freedom,” she continued. “There’s no way to behave like an adult, because they won’t treat me like an adult, so I’ll fall back and act like a little girl; but then my grown-up self would retreat – only my world wouldn’t let me grow up.”
In the book, she added: “The woman in me was pushed down for a long time. They wanted me to be wild on stage, as they told me, and be a robot all the time. I felt like I was being stripped of my secrets. that good life – the cardinal sins of being considered pleasures and adventures that make us human,” he added. “They want to take away that privilege and keep everything as possible. It was death to my creativity as an artist.”
Britney Spears’ memoir “The Woman In Me” is scheduled to be released on Tuesday, October 24, 2023.
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