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natalie75's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Dysphoria, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Medical trauma, Pedophilia, Addiction, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Suicide
mmefish's review against another edition
4.0
"I became a robot. But not just a robot—a sort of child-robot. I had been so infantilized that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself."
"In that moment, I made peace with my family—by which I mean that I realized I never wanted to see them again, and I was at peace with that."
I really feel for Britney and wish her the best. Some people should never be parents.
Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Stalking, Misogyny, and Domestic abuse
Moderate: Abortion, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Infidelity
ressicajicks's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Body shaming, Mental illness, Abortion, Eating disorder, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, and Ableism
Moderate: Miscarriage
sierrabowers's review against another edition
5.0
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
echolliot's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Abortion and Medical trauma
Moderate: Mental illness, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Misogyny
zydecovivo's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Alcohol and Forced institutionalization
Moderate: Pregnancy, Grief, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, and Panic attacks/disorders
thackerleah's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Medical trauma, Forced institutionalization, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Bullying, and Toxic relationship
camartin1015's review against another edition
4.0
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.
Moderate: Gaslighting, Bullying, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Grief, Abortion, and Medical trauma
cerysl's review against another edition
3.5
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
katesant's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Forced institutionalization and Abortion
Moderate: Medical trauma, Drug use, and Toxic relationship