Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

11 reviews

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

hayleyvem's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Infidelity, Confinement, Abandonment, Alcohol, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Pregnancy and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Addiction, and Death of parent

srgreen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Abandonment, Bullying, Body shaming, and Alcohol

Moderate: Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, and Violence

Minor: Infidelity, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Death of parent

nialiversuch's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Confinement, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Grief, Abortion, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Mental illness, and Medical trauma

Minor: Death, Child abuse, Alcohol, Death of parent, Drug use, Miscarriage, and Infidelity

tashtasher's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Forced institutionalization, Toxic relationship, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Alcoholism, Car accident, Bullying, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Body shaming

Minor: Drug use

hayleyw's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Infidelity, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Child abuse, Confinement, Bullying, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Body shaming

Minor: Medical trauma, Cursing, Death of parent, and Infertility

chasingpages1's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Sexism, Misogyny, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Fatphobia, Grief, Mental illness, Abortion, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Infidelity, and Medical content

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual content, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, Death of parent, Dementia, Car accident, and Drug abuse

smalljoys's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Body shaming, Miscarriage, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Grief, Infidelity, Death, Confinement, Bullying, Torture, Sexism, Medical content, Alcohol, and Misogyny

Moderate: Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Abortion, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Medical content, Infidelity, Grief, Death of parent, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Infertility, Forced institutionalization, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Alcohol, and Addiction

david_slack110507's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.75

It feels weird to give this a rating considering that this is actually based off of Britney's life in the same way that it was weird to give a rating to I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, but I feel like while this memoir from one of pop's most influential figures did have the insight that was promised, it wasn't the best structured which is what brought it down for me. 

Before reading this, I had previously known very little about Britney's life other than being one of the most successful artists in the past few decades as well as being in an abusive conservatorship that was eventually exposed to the mass media through the #FreeBritney movement (which Britney acknowledges in this book as being one of the things that kept her going in the fight for full control over her life) so this memoir was very insightful into the tumultuous life of Spears and how it all started from a very young age. Ranging from her family life being unsafe and toxic to using music, dancing, and acting to escape that home life only for those escapes to be poisoned with issues too. 

The early and later years in Spears' music career and spotlight in the media really showed how cruel the media can be to those in the spotlight and how this can take various methods from asking deeply personal questions, to sexualising Britney, to harassing her when she was obviously not in the mental space and state to actually deal with everything and much more. Memoirs in particular are very good at exposing how much the media got away with (and continues to do so in some instances) in their treatment of celebrities, particularly women and other minorities, in the earlier years of modern media and I hope that like many other memoirs that spotlight and criticise these issues, Britney's story will help lessen the likelihood for more stories like hers for future stars. 

My main issue with this memoir is how it was structured, some parts felt fully explained and in detail while others were less detailed and so there was often a sporadic movement between years that threw me off slightly and made me a little confused as to when a certain event was happening or what family member Spears was referring to due to having only mentioned them at the beginning of the book or a brief description in the midst of a big and important event in her life. 

Overall, I'm so glad that Britney is free of her conservatorship and can actually live her life rather than having her life dictated for her like how it was for so long and I wish her all the best when it comes to rebuilding herself slowly from the insurmountable damage caused by her family's control over her. This was such an important story to tell and one that deserved to be told and so I'm glad that Britney finally felt ready to share her story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Sexism, Abortion, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Body shaming, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Confinement, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Bullying

Minor: Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Drug use, Addiction, and Adult/minor relationship

aharper's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Suicide, Miscarriage, Forced institutionalization, Toxic relationship, Abortion, and Emotional abuse