Later the same year, she married Kevin Federline and had two children, Sean (now two) and Jayden (one). The marriage lasted just 55 hours, ending with an annulment stating that Britney "lacked understanding of her actions to the extent that she was incapable of agreeing to marriage". Two years later, she married a childhood friend, Jason Allen Alexander, in Las Vegas. By the time he dumped her in 2002, she was already struggling to cope.
She fell in love with Justin Timberlake, the N'Sync singer and fellow Mickey Mouse Club member. She trekked around record companies, taking the rejections in her stride, until Jive Records heard her sing and signed her cheaply. It all came from me."Īt the age of eight she was on an agent's books by 11 she had landed a slot on the popular US children's TV programme The Mickey Mouse Club and, aged 15 and convinced that she was destined for stardom, she moved to New York. Their little girl, though, always knew what she wanted. Both are devout Baptists and stalwarts of their community, although they were later to divorce and neither, as Britney observed in drifting away from them, "had rhythm". Her mother, Lynne, worked as a local schoolteacher her father, Jamie, as a building contractor. Raised in the small, backwoods town of Kentwood, Louisiana, the middle of three children, her upbringing was secure and apparently happy. Yet for Britney, at least, it shouldn't have been this way. The curse of 'celebrity' and the constant media exposure of her private life with notorious photographs of her emerging knickerless from a car, tearfully shaving her head and falling around in an Los Angeles strip club has also been blamed for her decline. Now the world press are all but writing obituaries for the pop star's ailing career, the marriage to one-time Tv reality show star Kevin Federline is over and her children have been taken away from her amid allegations of drug and alcohol addiction.īritney's recent spell in a secure psychiatric unit at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles 'in the interests of her own welfare' has fuelled speculation that mental health issues are at the heart of her erratic and volatile behaviour. It's fascinating to look at how the public undoing of a 26-year-old American 'pop princess' has been played out in the news media.Once upon a time Britney Spears had a charmed life: domination of the music charts, a marriage, children, a finely crafted, wholesome, 'sugar and spice' image that left fans both cooing and salivating after her.
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