Britney Spears is putting everything on the table! The pop icon is gearing up to release her new memoir titled “The Woman in Me,” and it will cover everything from her childhood, career, her controversial conservatorship and her past relationships.
Speaking on that, in an excerpt, Spears talks about a painful experience that she’s kept private for 20 years. In her book, the 41-year-old reveals that she became pregnant while dating fellow singer Justin Timberlake but had an abortion.
“It was a surprise, but for me, it wasn’t a tragedy. I loved Justin so much. I always expected us to have a family together one day. This would just be much earlier than I’d anticipated,” Spears writes of the pregnancy in her new book. “But Justin definitely wasn’t happy about the pregnancy. He said we weren’t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young.” As previously reported, the two started dating in 1999 when she was 17 and he was 18. Spears went on to share that she decided to go through with terminating their baby because the former NSYNC member wanted her to. She writes,
“I’m sure people will hate me for this, but I agreed not to have the baby,” she writes in the book. “I don’t know if that was the right decision. If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it. And yet Justin was so sure that he didn’t want to be a father.”
Spears and Timberlake eventually called it quits in 2002. Later in life she did become a mother, welcoming two sons — Sean Preston, 18, and Jayden James, 17 — with Kevin Federline.
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In her new book, Spears also talks about another painful time when she used to be brutally criticized by the paparazzi and tabloids which led to her infamous 2007 head shave.
Explaining why she did it, she said, “I’d been eyeballed so much growing up. I’d been looked up and down, had people telling me what they thought of my body since I was a teenager,” she writes in her much-anticipated memoir. “Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of pushing back,” PEOPLE quotes.
Spears talks about so much more including her tough battle with trying to end her conservatorship and reclaim her life.
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