Why Britney Spears shaved her head in 2007: I had to ‘push back’
nypost.comshaved her head in 2007 in a new interview. The event led to her family putting her under a conservatorship — a legal proceeding that she had been confined by until 2021.In an excerpt from her new memoir, “The Woman in Me,” obtained by People on Tuesday, Spears got candid about cutting off her hair.“I’d been eyeballed so much growing up.
I’d been looked up and down, had people telling me what they thought of my body, since I was a teenager,” she wrote. “Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of pushing back,” the “Piece of Me” singer continued.A year after the experience, her father, Jamie Spears, took over authority of her finances, as well as her medical care.“I was made to understand that those days were now over,” Spears wrote about feeling controlled by those around her.
The mother of two added: “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.”In 2007, Spears went to Esther’s Haircutting Studio in Tarzana, California, and asked for her hair to be cut off.
When owner Esther Tognozzi refused, Spears shaved off her own hair. Spears, who was undergoing a divorce from Kevin Federline at the time, used the salon’s razor and gave herself a buzzcut.
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