Who would ever let their child be a star?
Britney Spears may be the ultimate example of such exploitation, but she is hardly alone.
We’re in a moment of cultural reckoning with childhood fame and its monstrous costs: From the shocking docuseries ‘Quiet on the Set’ to Jennette McCurdy’s runaway bestselling memoir ‘I’m Glad My Mom Died’ to Justin Bieber’s breakdown this week — and his naming as part of the ongoing Diddy scandal — and Drew Barrymore’s desperate on-air
Britney Spears has released a lengthy 22-minute audio rant accusing her parents of abuse, saying they set up their controversial conservatorship over her after being introduced to the idea by an unidentified woman.
The 40-year-old singer posted the rambling recording to YouTube Sunday night in a video that has since been made private, offering new details on the controversial arrangement that ended last April after more than 15 years.
The clip features Spears speaking at length about her experiences during
Britney Spears shared a long post on Instagram Thursday afternoon where she detailed just a few of the hardships she endured while under a 13-year conservatorship with her father, Jamie, at the helm.
The 40-year-old singer began her social media tirade with: ‘I guess when you’re the type of person who finally starts to speak up … people don’t like you anymore !!!!’
Spears was freed from the court order on Nov. 12 that had been in place since 2008
Britney Spears’s life took a dramatic turn for the better on Friday, as a judge ended her 13-year conservatorship – opening up a whole world of opportunities.
Spears, who turns 40 next month, shocked the world in June when she laid bare the terms of her arrangement.
‘In California the only similar thing to this is called sex trafficking, making anyone work, work against their will, taking all their possessions away — credit card, cash, phone, passport card — and
On June 22nd, Britney Spears’s management team started getting nervous. Spears, who is thirty-nine, has spent the past thirteen years living under a conservatorship, a legal structure in which a person’s personal, economic, and legal decision-making power is ceded to others. Called a guardianship in most states, the arrangement is intended for people who cannot take care of themselves. Since the establishment of Spears’s conservatorship, she has released four albums, headlined a global tour that grossed a hundred and thirty-one
