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The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

69 reviews

eamayabe's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, and Gaslighting

theabee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Abortion, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Sexism, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

frogswimmer25's review against another edition

fast-paced

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Abortion

jrosek5's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Abortion, and Alcohol

socialpsysteph's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

I have had this waiting on my TBR since it was released. I have been excited to finally hear Britney's side of her life's story, especially regarding Justin Timberlake and the conservatorship with her father. I found the book really interesting, heartbreaking, and yet, still hopeful. As many have noted, it doesn't go as deep into many of the issues as it could have, things are discussed kind of quickly and surface level, but I also totally understand that; even talking about these things at that superficial level must have been very hard for Britney. Overall, I enjoyed it and it's what I expected.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Mental illness, and Abortion

Moderate: Drug abuse and Emotional abuse

chinomi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Grief, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

Minor: Miscarriage, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Pandemic/Epidemic

kelisabeth's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Abortion, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

kimberlina82's review against another edition

inspiring sad fast-paced

3.0

I really liked the idea of this book, and have been a big Britney fan since high school. However, this was a tough read for me as it seemed like something someone in middle school wrote. There were some inconsistencies in her stories as well.  All that said, I truly believe it is caused by years of confinement and probably being medicated when she didn’t need it.  I’m so glad she was finally able to get out from under the thumb of her family.  I hope she truly loves how she wants to now, and is happy for the rest of her days. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Pandemic/Epidemic

maldonadobryan's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

_ren's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.5

I have read some of the reviews, and understand that people who usually read memoirs have their educated opinions about Britney's memoir feeling like a girl's dairy or just generally unpolished. I, as someone who does not often read memoirs, thought that the writing style had some pros and some cons. The pros being the casual conversation feel of the whole book that made me feel that this was truly Britney speaking to us (some say her social medias are still highly controlled, I personally do not believe that), and the cons being the numerous jumps and time skips that were not warned about or acknowledged while I was reading. The time-skips were quite an annoyance at times because as someone who has kept up with the Free Britney Movement since summer of 2022, I felt that some details we uncovered that were crucial to the movement were not mentioned from Britney's perspective. I would have loved to seen more of Britney's version/feelings toward specific things we had uncovered about her case. In the end, this is definitely her way of saying FU to everyone who had wronged her through books, interviews, and documentaries. I am proud of her for just that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fatphobia and Pregnancy

Minor: Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic friendship