From sharing daiquiris with her mother as a young teenager to the 13 years she spent as an adult in a conservatorship, the memoir details how Britney Spears struggled to escape the influence of her controlling father
The Mrs Riot bar in Covent Garden, London, is decorated with the image from the cover of Britney Spears' memoir. Picture date: Tuesday October 24, 2023. Image: Beverley Rouse/PA Images via Getty Images
Britney Spears, the dewy-eyed child star who became a global pop phenomenon and then melted down in full view of the world, tells her story Tuesday with the release of her already bestselling memoir.
"The Woman In Me" is the pop princess in her own, unvarnished words, shot through with the anguish of a family she believes has failed her at every step of the way, in an industry that mercilessly devours its talent.
From sharing daiquiris with her mother as a young teenager—two years after she became a regular on "The Mickey Mouse Club"—to the 13 years she spent as an adult in a conservatorship, the memoir details how she struggled to escape the influence of her controlling father.
Until two years ago, when she got out from under the conservatorship legal relationship that she says dictated everything from her birth control choices to the set list at lucrative Las Vegas gigs.
In the intervening months, Spears has married a former dancer, announced then lost a pregnancy, and is now on the road to her third divorce.