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whimsylee's review
4.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Abortion, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Grief, and Miscarriage
melist6's review
5.0
Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Abortion, Addiction, Grief, Misogyny, Abandonment, Body shaming, Cursing, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Sexism
Moderate: Death, Adult/minor relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Drug use, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Eating disorder and Pandemic/Epidemic
thevanessa's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Body shaming, Mental illness, Bullying, Abortion, Emotional abuse, and Forced institutionalization
Moderate: Miscarriage, Death, Blood, Infidelity, Alcohol, Cursing, and Drug abuse
babsi_222's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Cursing, Hate crime, Abandonment, Body shaming, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Sexism, Dysphoria, Grief, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexual harassment, Torture, Addiction, Child abuse, Abortion, Bullying, and Pregnancy
Minor: Miscarriage, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Death, and Addiction
blizzardinsummer's review
4.5
Graphic: Abortion
Moderate: Drug abuse, Death, and Suicidal thoughts
housedesignerking's review against another edition
5.0
I'm not a celebrity worshipper (they're just humans like us), but I've followed her career--for the most part--since I was 11. I had posters of her on my bedroom walls and listened to her CDs often growing up. Almost everyone paid attention through 2007 and knew stuff about her conservatorship. When I heard her legal statement not too many summers ago, I "joined" the Free Britney movement, not going to any rallies as I don't live where any were held, but being supportive and rooting for her just the same. Then, of course, she was freed November '21 and subsequently announced she was writing a book.
When she finally released it, no freaking store I live near were selling it. So stupid! It took till 2 freaking months to get it, but at least I got to enjoy that feeling of snagging the very last copy in the store in which I FREAKING FINALLY bought it.
Having to wait 2 months to read the blessed thing, I kept trying to avoid news articles with spoilers. Unfortunately, I saw most of the article titles, but it was still worth the wait.
She was candid and honest, though she didn't speak on everything I thought she might. There's nothing about lipsync allegations, nothing about what is her best song IMO {"Someday (I Will Understand)"}, or even some of the so-called spoilers I saw in those article titles. Some of the claims I stumbled across are actually not found anywhere in 275 pages. For example, not once in 275 pages did she say, "he blanked my brains out." There was also an article I read that claimed Timberlake used his attorneys to get stuff about him out of this book, but I've never seen any proof of that and what's in here about him is pretty revealing, so I don't really see any reason to believe that he succeeded in editinf her book.
I enjoy autobios that feel less narrative and more like you're having a one-on-one convo with the writer and that's how it seems she wrote this. I read it within 2 calendar days and it's definitely a bit shocking even when you factor out the spoilers I already knew about it. The moment where she sat in what became her father's office comes to mind. "I'm Britney Spears now" has befome the creepiest and most psychologically eerie thing I've ever read and I can only imagine what her experience was like firsthand. The sexist and disturbing comments she recalled about her body, even as a teenage girl, were sadly remembered well by me, though.
I'm gonna give it 5 stars.
Moderate: Abandonment, Gaslighting, Sexism, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Confinement, and Cursing
Minor: Sexual content, Death, and Grief
Includes details about conservatorship abuse.samreynard's review
4.75
Graphic: Medical trauma, Forced institutionalization, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Abortion, Bullying, Grief, Emotional abuse, and Infidelity
Moderate: Death
Minor: Miscarriage
issyd23's review
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Gaslighting, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Cursing, Abortion, Car accident, Abandonment, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Torture, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship
mondovertigo's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Infidelity, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Body shaming, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Confinement, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, and Misogyny
Moderate: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Death, and Alcoholism
Minor: Eating disorder
bookswithlauren's review against another edition
4.0
Despite the book not being as detailed as it could have been, it was more than enough to show and explain not only everything Britney went through, but how it has impacted her and will continue to affect her.
This book does read almost like a teenage diary, but that is not surprising considering most of the control of her own life started to disappear when she was a teenager. So many opportunities and life experiences were taken away from her and it has definitely left its impact.
Graphic: Cursing, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Alcohol, Gaslighting, Child death, Abandonment, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Alcoholism, Bullying, Car accident, Grief, Medical content, Body shaming, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship