Britney Spears finally revealed why she decided to shave her head in 2007. The singer spoke to “People” (17) this Tuesday and spoke about her freedom after the end of her guardianship and the pressure she suffered from her father. The magazine also shared excerpts from Britney’s book The Woman in Me, which will be released on October 24th. The singer commented several times about how she felt under control.
In excerpts from the book, Spears explained why she shaved her head in 2007. “Growing up, I was watched a lot. Since I was a teenager, I have been belittled by people telling me what they thought of my body. My way of reacting, shaving my head and engaging in this behavior because I was feeling bad. But under the guidance I realized that those days were over. I had to grow my hair out and get back in shape. I had to go to bed early and take all the medications I was told,” he wrote.
Britney also revealed that she fulfilled a dream by taking back control of her life. In December 2021, a judge in Los Angeles in the US ended the star’s conservatorship after remaining under the control of Jamie Spears, her legal guardian at the time, for 13 years. “For the last 15 years or even at the beginning of my career, I watched people talk about me and tell my story,” he explained. “After leaving my conservatory, I finally had the freedom to tell my story without consequences for the people who were responsible for my life,” he said.
And while she can reveal what she wants, she admitted it’s “difficult to talk about the darkest moments” she’s faced. The star made it a point to list some of these dire situations. “Not having a moment of peace, the judgments of strangers who don’t even know me, the freedom my family and the government take away from me, and the loss of my passion for the things I love,” he listed. “It’s finally time for me to speak out and speak out, and my fans deserve to hear it directly from me.” No more conspiracies and lies. Only I own my past, present and future,” he told People.
Britney shaved her head in 2007 and was caught by paparazzi wearing a wig (Morea Press/Shutterstock)
Elsewhere, Britney explained that her father’s criticism hurt her. “If I thought it was bad to be criticized by the press about my body, it hurt me even more from my own father. He kept telling me that I was fat and that I needed to do something about it,” she said. “I did little creative things here and there, but my heart wasn’t in it anymore. “As far as my passion for singing and dancing was concerned, it was almost a joke at the time,” he remembers.
“The feeling of never being good enough is devastating for a child. “He instilled that message in me when I was a girl, and even after I accomplished so much, he continued to do that to me,” she noted. “Guardianship usurped my femininity and turned me into a child. On stage I became more of a unit than a person. I have always felt music in my bones and blood; “They stole it from me,” he complained.
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The consequences of guardianship, maturation and relationship with the father
In the book, Britney also addressed the topic of machismo, pointing out that many male artists also have attitudes similar to hers but don’t have to face tutelage. “Thirteen years went by and I felt like a shadow of myself. I think now that my father and his partners had control over my body and my money for so long, and that makes me feel guilty,” he reflected. “Think about how many male artists have thrown away all their money; How many had substance abuse or mental health problems? No one tried to take away their control over their bodies and their money. “I don’t deserve what my family did to me,” he stressed.
Another reflection of the artist is that with guardianship she was considered unable to care for herself, but was still able to make a profit. “The thing is: I achieved a lot during the time when I was supposedly unable to care for myself. Sometimes I found it almost funny how I won these awards for the album (“Blackout”) that I made while I was supposedly so incapacitated that I needed to be controlled by my family. The truth is, when I thought about it for a long time, it wasn’t funny at all,” he said.
Britney Spears said that other male artists don’t have conservatorships like her. (Photo: Getty)
“That’s what’s hard to explain, how quickly I could switch back and forth between a girl, a teenager and a woman because of the way my freedom was stolen. I couldn’t act like an adult because they didn’t treat me like an adult, so I regressed and behaved like a little girl; but then my adult self would return only my world wouldn’t allow me to be an adult,” he described.
“The woman in me has been repressed for a long time. They wanted me to be wild on stage like they told me to be, and for me to be a robot the rest of the time. I felt like I was being robbed of these good secrets of life these supposed deadly sins of selfindulgence and adventure that make us human. They wanted to take away that specialty and keep everything as mechanical as possible. It was the death of my creativity as an artist,” he explained.
But now she hopes to inspire her fans with her stories and her comeback. “It took a long time and a lot of work until I felt ready to tell my story. I hope it can inspire people in some way and touch hearts. Since I’ve been free, I’ve had to build a completely different identity. I had to say: Wait a minute, I was like this: someone passive and pleasant. A girl. And that’s who I am now someone who is strong and confident. A woman,” he concluded.
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