{"id":69834,"date":"2023-10-17T22:15:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T22:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geels.net\/?p=69834"},"modified":"2023-10-17T22:15:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T22:15:57","slug":"britney-spears-reveals-why-she-shaved-head-during-2007-meltdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geels.net\/beauty\/britney-spears-reveals-why-she-shaved-head-during-2007-meltdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears reveals why she shaved head during 2007 meltdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Britney Spears reveals why she shaved her head during infamous 2007 meltdown which led to 13-year-long conservatorship<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The 41-year-old pop megastar got candid about the incident and the reasoning behind it in an excerpt from her highly-anticipated book The Woman In Me<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In 2007, Britney infamously shaved her head at a hair salon in Tarzana, a suburb of Los Angeles, one day after she left a rehab facility in Antigua<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>As a result, a year later she was put under a court-ordered conservatorship in 2008 which granted her father Jamie Spears and a lawyer total control over her financial and personal affairs\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0Britney Spears fell PREGNANT with Justin Timberlake&#8217;s baby aged 19 but had &#8216;agonizing&#8217; abortion<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Britney Spears has finally revealed why she shaved her head during her infamous 2007 downward spiral which eventually led to her infamous conservatorship which lasted 13 years.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old pop megastar got candid about the incident and the reasoning behind it in an excerpt from her highly-anticipated memoir The Woman In Me obtained by People magazine on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>As she was in the midst of going through a painful divorce with Kevin Federline and was constantly in the public eye, the mother-of-two opened up on what led her to that moment.<\/p>\n<p>She wrote: &#8216;I\u2019d been eyeballed so much growing up. I\u2019d been looked up and down, had people telling me what they thought of my body, since I was a teenager.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of pushing back.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/17\/19\/76664115-12640793-Act_of_rebellion_Britney_Spears_has_finally_revealed_why_she_sha-a-47_1697566924461.jpg\" height=\"854\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Act of rebellion:\u00a0Britney Spears has finally revealed why she shaved her head during her infamous 2007 downward spiral which eventually led to her infamous conservatorship; she is seen committing the act at a hair salon in Tarzana, California<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/17\/16\/76665819-12640793-image-a-11_1697557077278.jpg\" height=\"981\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;d been eyeballed so much growing up&#8217;:\u00a0The 41-year-old pop megastar got candid about the incident and the reasoning behind it in an excerpt from her highly-anticipated memoir The Woman In Me obtained by People magazine on Tuesday<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, Britney infamously shaved her head at a hair salon in Tarzana, a suburb of Los Angeles, one day after she left a rehab facility in Antigua. Britney later re-entered treatment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As a result, a year later she was put under a court-ordered conservatorship in 2008 which granted her father Jamie Spears and a lawyer total control over her financial and personal affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Britney also revealed that due to the conservatorship she was prohibited from keeping the look as she wrote: &#8216;Under the conservatorship I was made to understand that those days were now over.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I had to grow my hair out and get back into shape. I had to go to bed early and take whatever medication they told me to take.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Britney also spoke out about that 13-year conservatorship as she detailed\u00a0how her father &#8216;controlled her body and her money&#8217; and &#8216;hurt&#8217; her with &#8216;fat&#8217; jibes.<\/p>\n<p>The singer hit out at 71-year-old dad Jamie in the same explosive memoir which is set to be released later this month.<\/p>\n<p>In another excerpt obtained by People, the star opened up about the unrelenting control her family had over her which, looking back,\u00a0makes her &#8216;feel sick.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Britney heartbreakingly conceded: &#8216;Feeling like you&#8217;re never good enough is a soul-crushing state of being for a child.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/17\/14\/58896889-12640287-Britney_Spears_has_spoken_out_about_her_13_year_conservatorship_-m-52_1697550332074.jpg\" height=\"608\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Britney was put under a court-ordered conservatorship in 2008 which granted her father Jamie Spears and a lawyer total control over her financial and personal affairs and she also detailed how her father &#8216;controlled her body and her money&#8217; and &#8216;hurt&#8217; her with &#8216;fat&#8217; jibes\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/17\/16\/76661915-12640287-In_excerpts_obtained_by_People_the_star_opened_up_about_the_unre-a-18_1697557897793.jpg\" height=\"838\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>In another excerpt obtained by People, the star opened up about the unrelenting control her family had over her which, looking back, makes her &#8216;feel sick&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>In the upcoming release, Britney writes: &#8216;I&#8217;d been eyeballed so much growing up. I&#8217;d been looked up and down, had people telling me what they thought of my body, since I was a teenager. Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of pushing back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But under the conservatorship I was made to understand that those days were now over. I had to grow my hair out and get back into shape. I had to go to bed early and take whatever medication they told me to take.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If I thought getting criticized about my body in the press was bad, it hurt even more from my own father. He repeatedly told me I looked fat and that I was going to have to do something about it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>She continued: &#8216;Feeling like you&#8217;re never good enough is a soul-crushing state of being for a child. He&#8217;d drummed that message into me as a girl, and even after I&#8217;d accomplished so much, he was continuing to do that to me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I became a robot. But not just a robot \u2014 a sort of child-robot. I had been so infantilized that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The star concluded: &#8216;Thirteen years went by with me feeling like a shadow of myself. I think back now on my father and his associates having control over my body and my money for that long and it makes me feel sick&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I didn&#8217;t deserve what my family did to me.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jamie took control of his oldest daughter&#8217;s life and finances in 2008 after some highly publicized mental health struggles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/17\/16\/76662351-12640287-Jamie_took_control_of_his_oldest_daughter_s_life_and_finances_in-a-19_1697557897794.jpg\" height=\"934\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Jamie took control of his oldest daughter&#8217;s life and finances in 2008 (pictured) after some highly publicized mental health struggles<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/17\/16\/58896883-12640287-In_the_years_that_followed_Britney_was_deemed_well_enough_to_wor-a-16_1697557897788.jpg\" height=\"708\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>In the years that followed, Britney was deemed well enough to work in what the former estate conservator called a &#8216;hybrid business model&#8217; in court papers, but not well enough to control her personal life\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It began as a temporary arrangement, but became permanent by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>In the years that followed, Britney was deemed well enough to work in what the former estate conservator called a &#8216;hybrid business model&#8217; in court papers, but not well enough to control her personal life.<\/p>\n<p>The estate controlled who her friends were, where she could go and &#8216;logged her every purchase down to a drink from Starbucks,&#8217; according to The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>Britney also told the court she had been forced to use birth control and take medication against her will.<\/p>\n<p>During one court appearance, she told the judge, &#8216;Ma&#8217;am, my dad and anyone involved in this conservatorship, and my management, who played huge roles in punishing me when I said &#8216;No&#8217; [to going on tour] \u2014 Ma&#8217;am, they should be in jail.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, it was reported that Jamie would not be reading Britney&#8217;s memoir.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/17\/14\/76231843-12640287-Jamie_pictured_previously_with_now_ex_wife_Lynn_has_kept_a_relat-m-51_1697550302741.jpg\" height=\"873\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Jamie (pictured previously with now ex-wife Lynn) has kept a relatively low profile after he was suspended as the head of the conservatorship in September 2021, a move made permanent two months later\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/17\/16\/58896865-12640287-It_comes_after_DailyMail_com_exclusively_revealed_that_Jamie_is_-a-17_1697557897791.jpg\" height=\"948\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>It comes after DailyMail.com exclusively revealed that Jamie is now living with his other daughter Jamie Lynn Spears (pictured with sister Britney in 2003) after his battle with alcoholism\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to Jamie said he is not concerned if he gets &#8216;trashed&#8217; in her book because she has already spoken out about him disparagingly on social media, according\u00a0TMZ.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Britney made headlines in regards to her father a year ago, when she took to Instagram saying, &#8216;I really felt like my dad was trying to kill me and I hope he burns in f***ing hell.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Jamie has kept a relatively low profile after he was suspended as the head of the conservatorship in September 2021, a move made permanent two months later.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after DailyMail.com exclusively revealed that Jamie is now living with his other daughter Jamie Lynn Spears\u00a0after his battle with alcoholism.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His parenting shortfalls and struggle with alcohol have previously been documented in his Jamie Lynn&#8217;s 2021 memoir, Things I Should Have Said, and that of his ex-wife, Lynne.<\/p>\n<p>Britney&#8217;s The Woman In Me and its accompanying audiobook are set to be released on October 24.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the book, she details how she emerged onto the entertainment scene aged just 11 as well as giving a very candid insight into her first kiss with Justin Timberlake.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-12640793\/Britney-Spears-reveals-shaved-hair-2007-downward-spiral-led-conservatorship-acting-out.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britney Spears reveals why she shaved her head during infamous 2007 meltdown which led to 13-year-long conservatorship The 41-year-old pop<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>US Entertainment News. 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