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katiez624 's review for:
The Woman in Me
by Britney Spears
Britney Spears is a pop icon. Her CD was the first one I ever purchased, and I spend many hours singing her songs, entire albums front to back. She was a music and fashion role model in my most formative years, but her life and career has been a series of extreme ups and downs.
This memoir allows us to see what really happened behind the scenes, when the media talked about her crazy antics and then her disappearance from the public eye for many years. Britney's natural ability to sing, dance, and perform made her a star instantly. But the combination of her mental struggles, personal relationship issues, and the abuse she suffered from her parents did not allow her to maintain her career trajectory. She often sounds much younger than she is, probably due largely to the fact that she was treated like a child and her maturity was stunted by the mistreatment she endured. The abhorrent way Britney was treated and used by the people who were supposed to love her the most was so sad to read about. She was virtually imprisoned for 13 years, making money for terrible people who controlled her every move. If she had better people in her life, who knows what would have happened?
Her writing style is much more conversational than literary, which is to be expected for celebrity memoirs. But most importantly, the words sound like her voice, and her story is one that desperately needs to be told, after being silenced for so long. She is an amazing artist and mother, and she deserves all the happiness.
This memoir allows us to see what really happened behind the scenes, when the media talked about her crazy antics and then her disappearance from the public eye for many years. Britney's natural ability to sing, dance, and perform made her a star instantly. But the combination of her mental struggles, personal relationship issues, and the abuse she suffered from her parents did not allow her to maintain her career trajectory. She often sounds much younger than she is, probably due largely to the fact that she was treated like a child and her maturity was stunted by the mistreatment she endured. The abhorrent way Britney was treated and used by the people who were supposed to love her the most was so sad to read about. She was virtually imprisoned for 13 years, making money for terrible people who controlled her every move. If she had better people in her life, who knows what would have happened?
Her writing style is much more conversational than literary, which is to be expected for celebrity memoirs. But most importantly, the words sound like her voice, and her story is one that desperately needs to be told, after being silenced for so long. She is an amazing artist and mother, and she deserves all the happiness.