Britney Spears in 2008, about a month into her conservatorship.
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In her memoir, The Woman in Me, out today, Britney Spears spares no details when it comes to her childhood growing up in Louisiana in a dysfunctional home, including the trauma of living with an alcoholic father and watching her mother nearly bleed to death from a postpartum hemorrhage. Her devastating public breakup with her first love, Justin Timberlake, became the second-toughest thing she endures, but her thoughts take an even darker turn halfway through the memoir when she starts describing the psychological abuse she suffered for years under her oppressive conservatorship. With her every move monitored for 13 years,…
