Pop star Britney Spears revealed for the first time that she shaved her head bald after divorcing her second husband in 2007.

In her upcoming autobiography, Britney explains her alleged rebellious actions in her youth: “Since I was a teenager, I was glared at a lot, people looked at me, and people commented on my body. My body. Shaving my head and acting are my ways to protest.”

Britney Spears shaved her hair in 2007. Photo: Bauer-Griffin

One evening in 2007, in the middle of a stint in rehab, Britney walked into a salon in Tarzana, California and asked to have her flowing auburn hair shaved. The salon’s owner, Esther Tognozzi, refused, so the singer grabbed a pair of clippers and shaved her hair while paparazzi took pictures through the window.

The next day, the image of Britney’s shaved head was widely published in the newspapers and became one of the moments illustrating her series of crisis and troubles at that time. Just a few days later, singer Toxic was photographed using an umbrella to attack a paparazzi’s car. These incidents continuously occurred while Britney was going through a painful divorce and custody battle with Kevin Federline.

Pictures of Britney Spears in 2007.

In 2008, after being forced into a mental institution, Britney was placed under the conservatorship of her father, Jamie Spears. Since then, the female singer has been controlled by her father in all aspects from personal, medical, financial, and work matters. She no longer has a voice in her daily life. “Under conservatorship, I have to understand that those days are over. I have to grow my hair long, get back in shape. I have to go to bed early and take whatever medicine they tell me to take,” she wrote.

Britney said the conservatorship stripped her of her rights as a normal woman, turning her into a child and a robot. “I became more of an entity than a person on stage,” she wrote in her autobiography The Woman in Me. “The woman in me has been suppressed for a long time. They want me to be wild on stage and a robot the rest of the time.”

Britney Spears wrote a memoir after escaping conservatorship at the end of 2021. She signed a contract with publisher Simon & Schuster, receiving a salary of 15 million USD for writing the book, according to Page Six.

In April, a source from the publisher revealed that Britney’s memoir “will shake the world” with “uncompromisingly honest” pages about the singer’s turbulent life. “It touches on her most vulnerable moments, her childhood with big dreams, her breakup with Justin Timberlake, the moment she shaved her head and her battle with her family over conservatorship.” , the source said.

People reported on October 17 that Britney made shocking revelations about her young love affair with Justin Timberlake. The singer said that she was pregnant with Justin in 2000 but then had an abortion because Justin said he was not ready to have children. “To this day, it is still one of the most painful things I have ever experienced in my life,” she wrote.