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The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

217 reviews

c_dmckinney's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, and Sexism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Grief, Mental illness, Abortion, Body shaming, Addiction, and Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Pregnancy, Pandemic/Epidemic, Miscarriage, Car accident, Panic attacks/disorders, and Injury/Injury detail

teganbeesebooks's review

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This poor woman. If you are in any way a Britney Spears fan, and even if you're not, this is important to read. She is literally treated like the protagonist of THE YELLOW WALLPAPER. If we lock her up, we can do whatever we want. Heartbreaking. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Grief, Pregnancy, Sexism, Abortion, Abandonment, Bullying, Body shaming, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Confinement, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death, Medical content, Drug use, Miscarriage, Addiction, Infertility, Misogyny, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexual content, Alcohol, Car accident, Child abuse, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

sierrabowers's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This was a great read. I highly recommend to anyone that’s a fan, or even if you’re not! Brittany tells her personal story regarding her life and conservatorship. I think her story can help others in similar situations in the future. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Dysphoria, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Body shaming, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Suicide, Medical trauma, and Miscarriage

svtephreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

3.0

It’s clearly written in her voice and her life before and during the conservatorship is shocking. It’s a quick read. I recommend it if you are into pop culture.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Child abuse, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse

greenclovers75's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Mental illness and Alcoholism

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Body shaming, Cursing, and Infidelity

thackerleah's review against another edition

dark reflective sad

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Forced institutionalization, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Bullying, and Toxic relationship

camartin1015's review

emotional sad fast-paced

4.0

I was excited about the release of this memoire, if a little hesitant because the audiobook isn't narrated by the author (which I tend to prefer). That said, Michelle Williams does an absolutely phenomenal job and, in some ways, sounded more like how I remember Britney Spears than Spears did herself in the opening that she recorded.

I'd learned some of Spears's life through the media and (unauthorized?) biographies that released during the height of her popularity, but this book provides a lot more information and context to her rise to fame, her role in her early choices, and the complicated way her family has seemed both incredibly well-off and incredibly poor. There is so much sadness and heartbreak (and anger) in the book and Spears's life. On the one hand, she is such an incredibly strong person to have endured media bullying, sexism and sexualization, and the paternalism and exploitation of a conservatorship--and to have fought for her freedom throughout it. At the same time, it's clear that there is no magical, pure happy ending for Spears (or, maybe anyone), and it left me wondering how we create a society where people are able to seek care and support in empowering ways, on their terms, rather than in belittling and demeaning ways. This book was also a great reminder of the ways the public has consumed celebrity content and how social media has changed that but also how US culture is inherently misogynist, holds women to explicitly different standards by making a spectacle of their experiences when they deviate from specific norms or expectations, and how many women have and continue to be exploited and traumatized by it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Bullying, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Grief, Abortion, and Medical trauma

cerysl's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Sexual content, Abortion, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Mental illness, Alcohol, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Fatphobia, Grief, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Medical trauma, Transphobia, Death, Kidnapping, Medical content, Sexism, Abandonment, Addiction, Miscarriage, Pandemic/Epidemic, Biphobia, Drug use, Confinement, Physical abuse, and Torture

riannonsbookishera's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Grief, Abandonment, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Body shaming, Abortion, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Confinement, Bullying, and Sexism

eliza_beth_23's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Forced institutionalization, Bullying, Body shaming, Confinement, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Death, Abortion, Miscarriage, Dementia, Grief, Suicide, Ableism, and Gaslighting

Minor: Addiction and Alcoholism