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The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

3 reviews

_ren's review

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.5

I have read some of the reviews, and understand that people who usually read memoirs have their educated opinions about Britney's memoir feeling like a girl's dairy or just generally unpolished. I, as someone who does not often read memoirs, thought that the writing style had some pros and some cons. The pros being the casual conversation feel of the whole book that made me feel that this was truly Britney speaking to us (some say her social medias are still highly controlled, I personally do not believe that), and the cons being the numerous jumps and time skips that were not warned about or acknowledged while I was reading. The time-skips were quite an annoyance at times because as someone who has kept up with the Free Britney Movement since summer of 2022, I felt that some details we uncovered that were crucial to the movement were not mentioned from Britney's perspective. I would have loved to seen more of Britney's version/feelings toward specific things we had uncovered about her case. In the end, this is definitely her way of saying FU to everyone who had wronged her through books, interviews, and documentaries. I am proud of her for just that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Torture, Abandonment, Cursing, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Eating disorder, Medical content, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Body horror, Confinement, Violence, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Grief, Drug abuse, Vomit, Sexism, Abortion, Addiction, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Pregnancy and Fatphobia

Minor: Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic friendship

aleilvandrea's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Abortion, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Pregnancy, Ableism, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Violence, Self harm, Torture, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Drug use, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Miscarriage, Infertility, Suicide, Infidelity, Blood, and Drug abuse

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Vomit, and Cursing

wytherwytch's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

3.0

Britney Spears' life in her own words... I was excited to read this but what struck me in listening is that Britney blames everyone else for everything that went wrong in her life which seems off to me. Nothing is her fault. Ever. Don't get me wrong - she didn't deserve what happened to her but literally nothing is her fault, ever? Doesn't seem balanced. There is a quite a bit of name dropping in the middle of the book as well which wasn't my bag. That said, it was an interesting read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Abortion, Forced institutionalization, Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Misogyny

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: Infidelity, Vomit, Alcohol, Drug abuse, and Addiction