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The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

103 reviews

sadiebugreads's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

4.0

i didn’t know much about Britney Spears before the book, never really listened to her music etc. But now i have so much sympathy for her and what she’s been through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Abortion, Forced institutionalization, Addiction, Body shaming, Mental illness, and Fatphobia

Minor: Miscarriage, Infidelity, Car accident, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy

kimberlina82's review

inspiring sad fast-paced

3.0

I really liked the idea of this book, and have been a big Britney fan since high school. However, this was a tough read for me as it seemed like something someone in middle school wrote. There were some inconsistencies in her stories as well.  All that said, I truly believe it is caused by years of confinement and probably being medicated when she didn’t need it.  I’m so glad she was finally able to get out from under the thumb of her family.  I hope she truly loves how she wants to now, and is happy for the rest of her days. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Drug abuse, Cursing, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Miscarriage, Pandemic/Epidemic, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Abandonment, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

gabriellegoldenhour's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Confinement, Bullying, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Gaslighting, and Mental illness

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.

_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

sweetmusic22's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

GOOD FOR HER!!

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Content Warnings

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

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

harmonygracie's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Cursing, Bullying, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Alcoholism, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Fatphobia, Child abuse, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, and Eating disorder

jesselopod's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Bullying, Medical trauma, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Body shaming, Mental illness, and Emotional abuse

chrisljm's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad fast-paced

4.0

Reading the experiences that Britney Spears went through left me with so much anger, sadness, and frustration for her. It is disgusting how the institutions we have in place, that are supposed to help and keep us safe, are constantly and consistently failing us. There are many heartless people in this world who should die, but death is a kind mercy they do not deserve. 

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. 

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Content Warnings

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