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kelisabeth's review against another edition
3.25
Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Kidnapping, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Grief, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Infertility, Addiction, Confinement, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Abortion, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Cursing
elizabethplucker's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Suicide, and Child abuse
Minor: Miscarriage
marysunburn's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Body shaming, Addiction, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Ableism, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Drug use, Eating disorder, Medical content, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Abortion, Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, and Toxic relationship
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.sweetmusic22's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Bullying, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Grief, Misogyny, Abortion, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Torture, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, and Pregnancy
If you're not in the right head space, don't read this!aseel_reads's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Forced institutionalization, Bullying, Infidelity, and Domestic abuse
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Alcohol, Miscarriage, Sexual harassment, and Stalking
Minor: Physical abuse
chrisljm's review against another edition
4.0
There are many complaints on the writing in this memoir, which is just focusing on the wrong thing imo, but the narrative tone of voice just sounded very young to me. I found this to be very fitting given the trauma she experienced, specifically in the sense of how trauma effects you neurologically, and it helps you understand just how young she was going through all this.
Graphic: Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Abandonment, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Abortion, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Death, Stalking, Sexual harassment, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Drug use, Grief, Infidelity, Medical content, Murder, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide
Minor: Cannibalism, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Sexual content
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
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
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
chris_reads's review against another edition
Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Grief, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Abortion, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Stalking
Moderate: Mental illness, Car accident, Alcohol, Body shaming, Drug use, Infidelity, Kidnapping, and Pregnancy
Minor: Miscarriage, Addiction, and Death