Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Femeia din mine by Britney Spears

304 reviews

gabriellegoldenhour's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Gaslighting

katara42's review against another edition

emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Grief, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Moderate: Infidelity and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Miscarriage

marysunburn's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad fast-paced

4.75

A harrowing, painful, yet sweet and chipper dive into the mind of one of this generation's great pop queens. The story we needed to have told all these years of controversy and gossip, an inside glance at her career and adventures – and yes, Blackout IS her greatest album, I'm glad I agree with the author – which determines a definite skip forward in the cultural moment and the way we look at celebrities. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Body shaming, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Abortion, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

The book is a first-person account of Britney Spears' real-life journey through her conservatorship, which granted her father complete and total control on everything she did: what she ate, what she wore, how she did her job and how, or if, she was allowed to see her family. The singer is institutionalized and forced to take prescription drugs.

katie0528's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

Brittney recounts her life, career, and the control she suffered under her father's control during her conservatorship. While I'm so glad Brittney is able to speak her truth and get her side of the story out there, something just felt lacking to me. It wasn't as introspective as I'm Glad My Mom Died or Spare. Similar to Paris Hilton's memoir, it reads very much like a woman setting the record straight. But unlike Paris, Brittney hasn't had time and distance to really begin the healing process, since this book was written and released within a year of the conservatorship ending. I'd like to see her thoughts on everything in a few years after the dust has settled and the wounds have closed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Death, Sexism, Medical content, and Gaslighting

Minor: Drug use, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, and Pandemic/Epidemic

marissaumble's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, and Forced institutionalization

_ren's review against another edition

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

Moderate: Fatphobia and Pregnancy

Minor: Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic friendship

add_a_little_spook's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Body shaming, Miscarriage, and Abortion

hayleyvem's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Pregnancy

Minor: Addiction, Miscarriage, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

ssurber98's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Miscarriage, and Abortion

I love how much grace and compassion she took given her circumstances. My rage would have boiled over so much faster. I really hope she lives a life of peace this far and her family have the day they deserve.

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

This five star rating is a huge surprise to me. I didn’t know anything much about her aside from the tabloid headlines (never listened to her music). Really glad I read this book. She’s overcome a lot. I probably would’ve crumbled. Made me proud of her and also inspired me to be clearer about my priorities and boundaries. I hope the world will leave her alone and let her be, and I hope her parents, sister, and Kevin all experience very painful and elongated suffering.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Grief, Abortion, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic