A review by ninahuynh
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.5

What a read! I knew, in passing, about Britney Spears being under a conservatorship, but never knew how bad it was. The way she detailed her confined life during those 13 years was so heartbreaking. Even in the way she writes, you can feel how much she was stunted in order to be their money bag. It wasn't the best writing; it was the writing of someone with all this anger and sadness and confusion and loneliness, who is finally free and wants the world to know what happened to her.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Moderate: Fatphobia and Pandemic/Epidemic