Britney Spears ‘became a robot’ during 13-year conservatorship: ‘Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of pushing back’
Britney Spears recalls drinking cocktails in eighth grade with mom: ‘Nothing like how my father did’Britney Spears models floral dress for first magazine cover shoot in five years“I’d been eyeballed so much growing up. I’d been looked up and down, had people telling me what they thought of my body, since I was a teenager.
However, Britney, 41, notes that once her father, Jamie Spears, took control of her personal, medical and financial affairs in 2008, she no longer had a say in her day-to-day life. “I was made to understand that those days were now over,” she shares. “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.”In between a string of stints in rehab, the Grammy winner walked into Esther’s Haircutting Studio in Tarzana, Calif., one night in 2007 and asked for her then-brunette hair to be shaved off.
The salon’s owner, Esther Tognozzi, refused, so Britney took matters into her own hands by grabbing a clipper andBut the following year, after she was hospitalized on two involuntary psychiatric holds, Jamie went to court and made himself his daughter’s legal guardian., made me into a child,” Britney writes in her book, which hits stores on Oct. 24. “I became more of an entity than a person onstage. I had always felt music in my bones and my blood; they stole that from me.
“The woman in me was pushed down for a long time,” she writes. “They wanted me to be wild onstage … and to be a robot the rest of the time.
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