Britney Spears shares reason for shaving her head in 2007

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Britney Spears has revealed her reasons for shaving her hair off in 2007 in her upcoming memoir.The pop icon first announced her new tell-all memoir The Woman In Me back in April, and has since shared excerpts from the highly-anticipated book.

In the book, which is out next week (October 27), she speaks about the many headlines she has faced throughout her career, including the time she shaved her hair 16 years ago.“I’d been eyeballed so much growing up,” she explained in an excerpt, obtained by PEOPLE. “I’d been looked up and down, had people telling me what they thought of my body since I was a teenager.”She added: “Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of pushing back.”Spears was put in a court-ordered conservatorship, which lasted for 13 years before it was terminated in 2021.

In The Woman In Me, she wrote: “Under the conservatorship, I was made to understand that those days [of having autonomy over her body] were now over.”Britney Spears finally reveals why she shaved her head in 2007 pic.twitter.com/nP9lestNow— Daily Pinpoint (@DailyPinpoint) October 17, 2023“I had to grow my hair out and get back into shape.

I had to go to bed early and take whatever medication they told me to take,” she said. The ‘Oops, I Did It Again’ singer also wrote about how she lost her creative flair because her “heart wasn’t in it anymore.”She said: “As far as my passion for singing and dancing, it was almost a joke at that point… Thirteen years went by with me feeling like a shadow of myself.”In reflection, Spears said she “feels sick” about her father and his associates having control over her body and money.“Think of how many male artists gambled all their money away,” she explained.