Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Femeia din mine by Britney Spears

212 reviews

edietz22's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Abandonment, and Alcohol

chloeanderson's review against another edition

dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Mental illness

Minor: Miscarriage and Car accident

theverybookish's review against another edition

emotional informative fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Eating disorder, and Toxic relationship

rroseking's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

3.75

If you're a fan of Britney Spears you should read this. She's been through so much from childhood right through to the conservatorship. You can hear throughout the book how people have failed her throughout her life. But you also hear a lot of hope in the way she describes moments in her life. The book itself is written well enough. Michelle Williams was a good narrator. Highly recommend to anyone who is curious about this book.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, and Grief

ehmannky's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

This is another book that has helped me solidify my belief that fame, especially for women and especially for women who became famous as children, almost inevitably leads to abusive and toxic situations. I think this is a really moving memoir. I knew the conservatorship was bad, but I just did not have any idea the depths to which her whole family aided and abetted her father's abuse of her. I'm glad she's free of her terrible family, and I'm glad she's getting time for herself and to recover from the decades of abuse she's experienced at the hands of her family, her exes (truly would like to fight Kevin Federline and Justin Timberlake in a parking lot). I don't think it's the best written memoir I've ever read, but it's compelling and I think a good read for anyone interested in the ways that disability rights are important for people on all levels of society. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Forced institutionalization

tombo2093's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I'm a huge Britney fan and I loved this book. So sad what she went through. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

amycourts's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.75

Britney has always deserved better treatment than what she got, but hearing her full story from her own perspective, and in details previously unknown, built a whole new level of rage in me against the exploitative and hateful powers around her. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Stalking, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

monica_moser's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.75

Britney deserves the world

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Abortion, and Gaslighting

Minor: Miscarriage

abicaro17's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.5

Wow. Damm. Britney has a compelling and heart wrenching story. It's one thing to read about it in the news and its another thing to read and her own family trapping her from her pov. The things she went through sound almost made up they're that insane. Unfortunately this was clearly written by a singer and not an author. It reads like a 13 year olds diary. It has no real structure and lots of stories/chapters have like no value. The story also just ends? Like no moral or overarching conclusion. Just weird. Wish it was ghostwritten almost. Very compelling though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Abortion, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

kbairbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

This is the second celebrity memoir that I’ve read in the span of a year and phew they have been emotionally challenging to read. I have so much empathy and sympathy for Britney and everything she’s been through in her life. I truly hope she can put in the work to heal as much as she can from her traumas, even though she shouldn’t have to. To read about the horrors that she has been through makes my heart ache and I hope that whatever she is doing now brings her nothing but joy and healing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Abortion, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Pregnancy

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic