In a revealing passage from her upcoming memoir, "The Woman in Me," Britney Spears exposed her father Jamie's exploitative use of her celebrity status.
She opened up about the 13-year conservatorship he had over her life and even mentioned that at one point, Jamie claimed, "I'm Britney Spears now."
In 2008, the "Baby One More Time" hitmaker recalled being told that her health had deteriorated so much that she was too ill to select her boyfriend.
However, despite this, she was seemingly healthy enough for appearances on sitcoms and morning shows and fit enough to perform for thousands of people around the globe every week.
The "Toxic" diva said in her memoir, via the New York Times, "From that point on, I began to think that he saw me as put on the earth for no other reason than to help their cash flow."
Britney claims Jamie told her, "I'm Britney Spears now."
The years under her father's rule significantly affected the singer, who described her time as going "from partying a lot to being a total monk."
According to the artist, her father even took extreme measures to control her life, such as familiarizing security guards "to hand [her] prepackaged envelopes of meds and watch [her] take them," as well as placing restrictions on her phone.
She noted that "everything was scrutinized and controlled."
On November 12, 2021, after almost 13 years of being subject to an ongoing court-mandated conservatorship, the "Gimme More" singer's care was finally terminated by the judge.
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In her tell-all book, Britney Spears also used the opportunity to express her displeasure with her father for body-shaming her during that period.
"If I thought getting criticized about my body in the press was bad, it hurt even more from my father," she writes. "He repeatedly told me I looked fat and that I was going to have to do something about it."
In an attempt to reclaim her autonomy, Britney recounts that in 2007, she shaved her head as a response to the frequent comments about her appearance.
She writes on "The Woman In Me," "I had been subjected to endless evaluations of my body since I was a teenager, and these acts were my way of pushing back."
"But under the conservatorship, I was made to understand that those days were now over. 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."
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