Britney Spears is an American icon thanks to her career as a musical legend. However, she has become just as famous in more recent years for the drama in her life, including an ugly legal drama involving the fate of her finances.
Like many of us, Spears has taken to using Instagram for the occasional ego boost. Her spicy photos and dancing videos have gained her countless positive comments from fans, but others see everything as a cry for help. Just how did Britney Spears get in this situation, and what has she been doing online that has everyone so upset? Keep reading to find out!
Britney Spears’ early rise to fame
When she first became a musical megastar, it seemed like Britney Spears and her amazing talents had come out of nowhere. That wasn’t exactly true, though: she spent years on The Mickey Mouse Club, working alongside fellow future phenom Justin Timberlake. That show went off the air (at least, the version she starred in did) when she was 14, and she signed her first record deal at 15.
Her first album was an instant hit, and her music video for the song “…Baby One More Time” helped transform Spears into an icon. Just like that, the singer had become a household name, and it seemed like she had the entire world at her fingertips. Years later, though, we learned just how little control she had and what lengths she was willing to go to in order to take back control of her life.
The haircut that shocked the world
One of the strangest moments in Britney Spears’ personal history came in 2007. Thanks to a member of the paparazzi, we got a now-infamous photo of Britney Spears shaving her own head. At the same, it seemed insanely perplexing…why, we all wondered, would one of the most beautiful women in the world go out of her way to remove something that made her so beautiful?
Recently, we got an answer to this question when Spears released her memoir, The Woman In Me. As reported by Today, she wrote ““My long hair was a big part of what people liked — I knew that. I knew a lot of guys thought long hair was hot. Shaving my head was a way of saying to the world: F— you.”
Continuing, she wrote, “You want me to be pretty for you? F— you. You want me to be good for you? F— you. You want me to be your dream girl? F— you.” This may sound extreme, but as the world found out years ago, Spears had some major stress in her life at the time.
Messy legal drama involving her dad
When Britney Spears was caught shaving her head, most people chalked it up to stress from her recent divorce from Kevin Federline. This resulted in some ugly situations where she lost custody of her children and was put in a conservatorship in which her father, Jamie Spears, ultimately controlled her finances.
Incredibly, he remained in charge of those finances until 2021, and Britney Spears made some major allegations against him. Allegedly, she couldn’t go off birth control due to the terms of the conservatorship and was forced to go on tour when she didn’t want to. Later, a documentary further alleged that her phone and bathroom were bugged by her father’s security staff!
Going topless online…a LOT
These days, Britney Spears is out from under her father’s thumb and enjoying more freedom than she has had in decades. Some would say a little too much freedom because Spears took to regularly doing something fans never expected her to do: constantly take naked pictures of herself.
The year 2022 saw plenty of naked Britney on her Instagram page, though she always tastefully covered parts of her body up with her hands or with emojis. Still, the fact that she kept doing this made some fans worry about her. Was this just a cry for attention, or was there something more serious hidden behind all that skin?
Controversy over her dancing videos
In addition to the nudity, another thing that has fans worried about Britney Spears and her mental health is the dancing videos that she posts. Some of these are relatively tame compared to her naked pics, showing the singer combining things like cropped shirts and bikini bottoms with smudged eyeliner and sloppy dance moves. Others are insanely provocative, including a clip where she wears boots, a pink shirt, and barely-there pink panties that she nearly pulls down while enthusiastically dancing with no bra.
The nudity and the dancing videos have generally left her fans divided. Some see this as a natural way of expressing herself now that she doesn’t have to worry about her controlling father. Others, however, see these posts as possible evidence of drug abuse or manic episodes. We won’t know the truth until Britney spills the beans, but one thing is for certain: she still knows how to turn heads and generate headlines like nobody else!