Britney Spears under guardianship: ‘I don’t even have $1,000 to pay for food’
In her autobiography ‘The Woman In Me’, Britney Spears tells of the time when she was under the guardianship of her biological father. She once invited friends and a dance group to dine at a restaurant, but didn’t have enough money to pay.
The story was revealed by the pop star in the 35th chapter of the book. During that period, Mr. Jamie Spears gave her $2,000 for pocket money every week. Sometimes Britney wants to buy a pair of sneakers, but her guardian feels it’s not necessary, she won’t be able to buy them.
On a rare occasion when she was able to go out to dinner with a group of friends and dancers in her crew, Britney Spears wanted to invite everyone to express her gratitude. However, she did not have enough $1,000 in her pocket account to pay for that meal.
The female singer felt dissatisfied because her spending was controlled, while she performed 248 shows and sold 900,000 live show tickets in Las Vegas. For each program, she is paid hundreds of thousands of dollars. And her parents both depend on her money.
Britney Spears continuously conducted tours at her father’s request, while he was her guardian.
According to Britney Spears, even when she was resting between tours, her father constantly intervened in every little thing, including the meal menu. Mr. Jamie Spears does not allow his daughter to eat desserts or use alcohol; hired a housekeeper to control Briney’s meals. The singer often asked her housekeeper to secretly bring her a hamburger or an ice cream cone, but this person refused because he had to follow her father’s orders.
The Sometimes singer recalled: “When my father told me not to eat dessert, I felt like it was not only his decision, but also the decision of my family and the state where I lived, as if I didn’t was legally allowed to eat dessert because my father didn’t want it. Two years is a long time when you’re not allowed to eat what you want, especially when it’s your body, your soul, and your job. is creating money that people live off of. Two years of asking for French fries and being rejected makes me feel like I no longer have any value” (excerpt from Vietnamese version “The Woman in Me”, Yen Du translated, published by First News).
Britney Spears believes that imposing a strict diet on herself is difficult enough, but it gets worse when others deprive her of all the foods she wants to eat. She feels “difficult” when her body is no longer hers.
According to the regulations of the guardianship order, Britney is not allowed to touch alcoholic beverages, because she needs to stay sober during tours. One gathering, while her friend Christina Aguilera could drink until she was drunk, Britney and her group of dancers just enjoyed the swimming pool and soaking in the jacuzzi. She thought the joy would be more complete if she drank alcohol, rebelled with her friends and had a little fun together. These things make Britney feel like she has been turned into a little girl, even a machine, having to bury her rebellious instincts and personal freedom.
Britney added: “My dad sets up all the strict rules for me but he himself goes out to drink. My friends can get their nails done at the beauty salon and drink a few glasses of fancy wine, and I never set foot in a beauty salon. My family often goes to Destin, a beautiful beach town in Florida, lives in the ridiculously luxurious apartment I bought for them and eats all kinds of delicious food. every night, while I was almost starving and had to work hard.”
Britney Spears said she was always criticized by her father for being fat, ugly, and an embarrassment to him.
For a while, Britney Spears dated program producer Charlie Ebersol. He is a person who focuses on health care, exercises every day, uses functional foods and many vitamins. He shared a lot of nutritional knowledge with Britney and gave her energy supplements. This helps her feel better.
However, Mr. Jamie Spears does not like this. He asked his daughter to stop using the drugs Charlie advised and took her to a drug treatment center for a month.
The pop star said that no matter how much she dieted and exercised, she was still criticized for being fat. Furthermore, the regimen her father set was not completely effective, and sometimes she still gained weight.
She confided: “I can’t believe so many people feel comfortable commenting on my body. My family considers my body a public property, something they can control, control, criticize or use as A weapon. My body was strong enough to carry two children and flexible enough to perform every dance move on stage perfectly. Yet at that time, I had to monitor every calorie intake People can continue to get rich thanks to it.”
Britney Spears reconciled with her mother last year.
Britney Spears’ autobiography The Woman In Me was published in the US last October, occupying the top 1 bestseller list of the New York Times after a week of release. The Vietnamese version was released in mid-April this year with two versions: paper book and audiobook.
The work is Britney Spears’s confession about her life from childhood to becoming a star and enduring 13 years of prison-like guardianship by her relatives. “I can’t trust anyone, I can’t trust my mom, I can’t trust my dad. The worst thing they did was make me doubt my own beliefs,” said the Baby One More Time singer.
The book shows Britney struggling with many difficulties behind the fame, romantic relationships, three failed marriages, battle with mental health issues and a conservatorship that stifled her freedom. her, according to Daily Mail . Through this, many secrets in Britney Spears’ life were revealed: betrayal, abortion and many other trials and sufferings she had to endure.
Many details in the book made fans stunned and burst into tears. In an Instagram post on October 20, Britney explained that she wrote her memoir not to offend anyone or “to talk about past experiences”, but to say what she wanted to say, once and for all. turbulent past.
