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The Woman in Me by Britney Spears Book Review

 The Woman in Me 

By Britney Spears 


Published Year : 2023 October 

Page Count: 161 pages

Medium Used : Kindle PW

Genre : Contemporary, Memoir, Mental Illness, Conservatorship, 2023-read. 

Rating : 5/5šŸŒŸšŸŒŸšŸŒŸšŸŒŸšŸŒŸ


Wow. What a book! Britney Spears has very deftly channeled her inner emotional voice into words and touched the very core of my soul with her narrative. Her life has been - for a lack of better word - wasted and misappropriated. 


She has remained a naive, gullible and vulnerable child all through - but also a bit over the top paranoid and parochial. She just looked at things that were happening to her from her point of view and not how her actions might have warranted those measures to be taken. She just lacked the perspective. She was a perfect abuse material - wanting to please everyone, wanting to be perfect all the time, trying to shut out the overwhelming negative media coverage by hiding in her mansion etc. She was very passive and didn't raise her voice or being to really stop anything from happening - she just tried to adapt and went with it all. What a vulnerable soul she was! I felt really protective at times and exasperated at times too. Not every paparazzo is a villain chasing her for information. Not every move her father made is to get her goat. She didn't see any of it. She just wanted to escape and run. 



I felt,reading the book,that she has become a stronger and more balanced person as she aged and came to terms with her own weaknesses - not remaining in denial, not feeling like a freaking victim all through. This being said, the people she put her absolute trust in - starting with Justin Timberlake and later her husband, family - have betrayed her very badly. The scars that she carried from such memories must have been enough to mar a person forever but it was - i truly believe - God and her faith, spiritual search which made her find a reliable and strong footing in this world again. She has learnt to say "no" to wrong people (how could her parents be so cruel and selfish, I can't even imagine!) and exploitation from wrong spheres. I hope she continues in her path of soul search and reliance on divine rather than seeking enjoyment in the baser ways of wrong company. :) 



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