A review by daiinty
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

“You have to speak the thing that you’re feeling, even if it scares you. You have to tell your story. You have to raise your voice.” — Britney Spears

this was such a heart wrenching read. reading britney’s story in her own words, it is just unfathomable to me just how many people failed her. i went into this with very little knowledge on britney spears. of course, i grew up listening to her music, but when most of the events in the first half of this book took place i was really young. britney spears was kind of like this idea i had in my head based off of pop culture and people’s ideas of her. come to find out everything i thought i knew was wrong. my perceptions of britney growing up in the early 2000s during her “breakdowns” was fully from the media so this whole time i did think she was on drugs or something around the time she shaved her head. really interesting to find out she never had a drinking/drug problem at all. as someone about to be studying law, it just blows my mind that the conservatorship was able to happen at all, but the fact it went on so long while she was still working her ass off? crazy. as sad as many aspects of this book were, britney’s strength and optimism for the future is very aspirational. i really enjoyed this read.

i’ve seen that britney used a ghost writer for this book, but in reading it, it feels like someone just captured her talking about her life and maybe just edited the grammar and changed some words around. this story was a long time coming, and i’m glad she finally is able to share her story with the world.