The Woman in Me

Britney Spears grew up in small-town Louisiana, signed with a major label as a teenager, and became one of the most famous pop stars in the world before she was old enough to drink. The Woman in Me moves through her childhood, her early career and the relationships that shaped it, the tabloid-fueled scrutiny of her twenties, the public crisis that led to a court-ordered conservatorship, and the 13 years she spent under a legal arrangement that controlled nearly every part of her life. Writing her own story for the first time, Spears reckons with fame, family, motherhood, and the long public campaign that eventually freed her, in a memoir about reclaiming authorship of a life other people had been narrating for decades.