Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

31 reviews

jupton720's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Abortion, Confinement, Child abuse, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Body shaming

Minor: Infidelity and Alcohol

dev921's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Miscarriage, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Bullying, Abortion, Alcohol, Confinement, Cursing, Eating disorder, Cannibalism, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Grief, Infidelity, Medical content, and Misogyny

issyd23's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

IT’S MOTHER FUCKING BRITNEY BITCH!!! 4👸🏼

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Gaslighting, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Cursing, Abortion, Car accident, Abandonment, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Torture, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

readingwithmeredith's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

3.5

Informative but poorly written. Felt lost at times as someone who went in knowing nothing about her story. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Confinement, Medical content, Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, Abortion, Emotional abuse, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Cursing, Infidelity, and Sexual content

mrs_spacetime's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

The way this is written sounds so genuinely the way that Britney speaks. It's so endearing. As someone who grew up in the late 90s/early 2000's it was so nostalgic to read her perspective of that era. So glad I read this.

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Abortion, Misogyny, and Mental illness

Minor: Sexual harassment, Stalking, Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, Addiction, and Miscarriage

bookswithlauren's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

It makes me sad to read about everything that Britney has been through in her life, especially at the hands of people who were supposed to love and care for her. 

Despite the book not being as detailed as it could have been, it was more than enough to show and explain not only everything Britney went through, but how it has impacted her and will continue to affect her. 

This book does read almost like a teenage diary, but that is not surprising considering most of the control of her own life started to disappear when she was a teenager. So many opportunities and life experiences were taken away from her and it has definitely left its impact. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Alcohol, Gaslighting, Child death, Abandonment, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Alcoholism, Bullying, Car accident, Grief, Medical content, Body shaming, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

cheypreston's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

4.25

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Bullying, Medical content, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, and Body shaming

chasingpages1's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.25

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Sexism, Misogyny, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Fatphobia, Grief, Mental illness, Abortion, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Infidelity, and Medical content

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual content, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, Death of parent, Dementia, Car accident, and Drug abuse

smalljoys's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Body shaming, Miscarriage, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Grief, Infidelity, Death, Confinement, Bullying, Torture, Sexism, Medical content, Alcohol, and Misogyny

Moderate: Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Abortion, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Medical content, Infidelity, Grief, Death of parent, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Infertility, Forced institutionalization, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Alcohol, and Addiction

david_slack110507's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.75

It feels weird to give this a rating considering that this is actually based off of Britney's life in the same way that it was weird to give a rating to I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, but I feel like while this memoir from one of pop's most influential figures did have the insight that was promised, it wasn't the best structured which is what brought it down for me. 

Before reading this, I had previously known very little about Britney's life other than being one of the most successful artists in the past few decades as well as being in an abusive conservatorship that was eventually exposed to the mass media through the #FreeBritney movement (which Britney acknowledges in this book as being one of the things that kept her going in the fight for full control over her life) so this memoir was very insightful into the tumultuous life of Spears and how it all started from a very young age. Ranging from her family life being unsafe and toxic to using music, dancing, and acting to escape that home life only for those escapes to be poisoned with issues too. 

The early and later years in Spears' music career and spotlight in the media really showed how cruel the media can be to those in the spotlight and how this can take various methods from asking deeply personal questions, to sexualising Britney, to harassing her when she was obviously not in the mental space and state to actually deal with everything and much more. Memoirs in particular are very good at exposing how much the media got away with (and continues to do so in some instances) in their treatment of celebrities, particularly women and other minorities, in the earlier years of modern media and I hope that like many other memoirs that spotlight and criticise these issues, Britney's story will help lessen the likelihood for more stories like hers for future stars. 

My main issue with this memoir is how it was structured, some parts felt fully explained and in detail while others were less detailed and so there was often a sporadic movement between years that threw me off slightly and made me a little confused as to when a certain event was happening or what family member Spears was referring to due to having only mentioned them at the beginning of the book or a brief description in the midst of a big and important event in her life. 

Overall, I'm so glad that Britney is free of her conservatorship and can actually live her life rather than having her life dictated for her like how it was for so long and I wish her all the best when it comes to rebuilding herself slowly from the insurmountable damage caused by her family's control over her. This was such an important story to tell and one that deserved to be told and so I'm glad that Britney finally felt ready to share her story. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Sexism, Abortion, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Body shaming, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Confinement, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Bullying

Minor: Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Drug use, Addiction, and Adult/minor relationship