“It’s been a while since I felt truly present in my own life, in my own power, in my womanhood. But I’m here now.” This is how Britney Spears concludes her memoir, The Woman in Me, out today. In the powerful tell-all, the superstar candidly reflects on her route to the pop stratosphere, living life in the public eye , grappling with her mental health, and enduring a 13-year conservatorship that denied her a cell phone and the freedom to drive a car.
The only thing I was guilty of was feeling desperate to keep my own children for a few more hours.” She gets real about her best—and worst—musical moments Amid Spears’s personal turmoil in the late 2000s, there was much discussion around her work—both the good and the bad . Spears gets candid about it all. Of recording Blackout, Spears writes that it’s “the thing I’m most proud of in my whole career…Blackout was one of the easiest and most satisfying albums I ever made,” she writes.