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The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

156 reviews

tamsterdam_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Bullying, Forced institutionalization, Body shaming, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Sexism, Miscarriage, Emotional abuse, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Alcohol, Child abuse, Cursing, Alcoholism, and Drug use

Minor: Drug use, Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexism

caitlin_davis22's review

emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Abortion, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Bullying, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, and Pregnancy

marysunburn's review

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: 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.

aromarunwayexpress's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Misogyny, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Body shaming

Minor: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Miscarriage, Abortion, Drug use, and Death of parent

katie0528's review

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

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

_ren's review

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

Moderate: Pregnancy and Fatphobia

Minor: Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic friendship

aseel_reads's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

Wow, some people are actual garbage and I can't believe the actual brainwashing power the media and paparazzi had to make us all feel negative thoughts about Brittany during the 00s. Absolutely disgusting and I hope only good things for Brittany in the future (and a lot of bad karma for her family and the media people, and her awful exs) 

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Content Warnings

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

ivi_reads_books's review against another edition

emotional informative sad medium-paced

3.5

Fue interesante leer como Britney fue tratado de manera hororosa en el público e incluso de algunos miembros de su familia y como sobrevivió esta tratamiento.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Drug abuse, Addiction, Abortion, Stalking, Sexism, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Forced institutionalization, and Drug use

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

beccajreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

It's absolutely awful that the things she endured were allowed to happen.

Imagine how difficult it is for those who don't have a huge fan base and lots of money to get out of situations like this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Drug use, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Eating disorder

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Abortion