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A review by zydecovivo
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
Brittney Spears’s The Woman in Me is her chance to tell her story. As a very young fan when her star was rising, I didn't understand what she was going through in the early 2000s or what her conservatorship meant. Listening to her story, in her own words, brings a perspective to both her experiences and women's treatment within the music industry that we've all been missing for a long time. It is not a perfect book. Some memories don’t seem fully relevant to her reflections and some especially emotional situations seem to literally be indescribable by the author. I think there are also some instances glanced over that may reveal more trauma than the author wants to focus on in this text. But I can tell Spears wrote from the heart and her ability to discuss the horrors she was subjected to should be commended. This is a must-read for anyone thinking of entering the entertainment industry and will probably be a gateway used to move the industry forward to avoid such blatant abuse again in the future.
Graphic: Forced institutionalization and Alcohol
Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexism, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail