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Britney Spears (Photo by Kevin Mazur Archive\/WireImage)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For 13 years of Britney Spears\u2019 life, every facet of her autonomy, including her personal, financial and medical affairs, were rigorously controlled by her father, Jamie Spears, under a stringent and involuntarily placed conservatorship agreement, the pop star alleges in her new memoir. <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The autobiography, The Woman In Me<\/em>, details Spears\u2019 nascent rise from Disney Channel teen idol to become one of the highest-grossing female artists of all time, including the tumultuous period of her life where she felt \u201cstripped of her womanhood\u201d by the allegedly \u201cabusive\u201d conservatorship<\/a> imposed on her by her family. <\/span><\/p>\n

Spears also writes about her time as a tabloid fixture in 2007, where she was labelled as \u201cerratic\u201d by the press for shaving her head and hitting a photographer\u2019s car with an umbrella amidst her divorce<\/a> and custody battle with ex-husband Kevin Federline.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking on the buzzcut, Spears divulged that the decision to shave her head\u2014a moment captured by onlooking paparazzi\u2014was a conscious move to assert her autonomy. \u201cI\u2019d been eyeballed so much growing up,\u201d she wrote in reference to her burgeoning career as a pop supernova that started in her adolescence and highly publicised relationship with Justin Timberlake.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Britney Spears performs at the The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in New York City, New York (Photo by Kevin Mazur\/WireImage)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI\u2019d been looked up and down, had people telling me what they thought of my body since I was a teenager,\u201d she continued. \u201cShaving my head and acting out were my ways of pushing back.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

These acts of rebellion are what prompted her family to raise concerns about her mental state and what eventually led Spears to be placed under a decade-long legal guardianship. <\/span><\/p>\n

Once Jamie Spears and an attorney began to enact control of the singer, Spears claims she was \u201cmade to understand that those days [of acting out and asserting autonomy] were now over.\u201d \u201cI had to grow my hair out and get back into shape. I had to go to bed early and take whatever medication they told me to take.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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HOLLYWOOD – FEBRUARY 16: Britney Spears sighting at Social on February 16, 2008 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jean Baptiste Lacroix\/WireImage)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Touching on the impacts of the conservatorship, Spears wrote: “The conservatorship stripped me of my womanhood, made me into a child. I became more of an entity than a person onstage. I had always felt music in my bones and my blood; they stole that from me. If they\u2019d let me live my life, I know I would\u2019ve followed my heart and come out of this the right way and worked it out.” <\/span><\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the book, Spears wrote in reference to the title: \u201cThe woman in me was pushed down for a long time. They wanted me to be wild onstage \u2026 and to be a robot the rest of the time. Since I\u2019ve been free, I\u2019ve had to construct a whole different identity. I\u2019ve had to say, ‘Wait a second, this is who I was\u2014someone passive and pleasing. A girl. And this is who I am now\u2014someone strong and confident. A woman.’<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42674,"featured_media":41967,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[260,35],"yoast_head":"\nBritney Spears Reveals Real Reason For Shaving Head In 2007<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Britney Spears has explained the real reason for shaving her head in 2007 in new memoir. 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