This September, nearly two years after a court released Britney Spears from a strict conservatorship that many viewed as oppressive and exploitative, she will publish a highly awaited biography.
The captivating pop star’s book “The Woman In Me” will be released on October 24 by Gallery Books, a Simon & Schuster division.
Spears was largely controlled by her father, Jamie, for about 14 years while living under a contentious legal arrangement that prevented her from controlling her own life and finances.
In November 2021, a judge in Los Angeles dissolved the conservatorship. The singer said, in one horrifying allegation, that the agreement stopped her from having an IUD removed for contraception even though she wanted more kids.
The 41-year-old has alleged that her phone was tapped and that she was forced to work and go on tour.
Spears shot to popularity in her teens thanks to songs like “…Baby One More Time,” and by the turn of the 2000, she was one of the top pop performers in the world.
However, she had a well-publicized breakdown in 2007, during which she attacked a car belonging to a photographer at a service station.
In 2008, the conservatorship got going. After Jamie Spears, the pop star’s father, was demoted from overseeing her finances and estate at a hearing in September, it didn’t officially cease until November 2021.
“I just want my life back,” she told the court in 2021.
Since gaining her freedom, Spears has married her boyfriend Sam Asghari and collaborated on a song with Elton John.
Her forthcoming memoir is “a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope,” her publisher said in a statement.
“Written with remarkable candor and humor, Spears’s groundbreaking book illuminates the enduring power of music and love — and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last.”
