Britney Spears terminated her pregnancy at a young age

Singer Britney Spears had an abortion at a young age after becoming pregnant with artist Justin Timberlake, who, unlike her, said he was not ready to have children, according to announcements of her memoir “The Woman in Me” published this Tuesday in the US magazine People.

In the published excerpt, the pop princess, who is 41 today, says that during her courtship with the NSYNC singer, from 1999 to 2002, she had an unwanted pregnancy that came as a surprise to her, but not “tragedy“, and that she would “never” have stopped him if she could decide for herself.

“But Justin was definitely not happy pregnancy. He said we are not ready for child in our lives, we were too young“, says Spears, who does not specify the dates, but in any case she was less than 21 years old when her relationship with peer Timberlake ended.

The singer said she believes she will start a family with Timberlake and that she doesn’t mind starting it sooner than she expected, but He was very sure that he did not want to be a father“, so he passed a abortionwhich he describes as “one of the most painful things” he has ever experienced.

However, the author “I did it again” In an interview that was also published today by that magazine, she assures that being a mother and creating a family, something she later did with her husband Kevin Federline, with whom she had two children, was “a dream come true“.

He also talks about his difficult time divorce Federline, in 2007, when he became cannon fodder for sensational media and he acted in a famous episode in which, with his head shaved, he faced several ‘paparazzi‘, and after which the following year a polemics legal guardianship.

“Shaving my head and getting attention were my ways of rebelling,” says the singer, faced with the experience of being judged on her body and told what they thought of her body since she became famous during adolescence, which ended up affecting his mental health.

Under the legal guardianship of his father and several partners, he controlled his own finance and his Personal life for about 14 years, from which she was released by a court decision in 2021, Spears admitted that she had achieved professional success, but claimed that she was very unhappy, like a “shadow” of herself.

“The Woman in Me” will be released in English on October 24 and in Spanish two days later, with the promise of “brave story and incredibly moving about freedom, glory, motherhood, survival, faith and hope.”