BRITNEY SPEARS

Britney Spears a world known pop singer, best known for her songs ‘Toxic’ and ‘Baby One
More Time’ has recently come out with her story of the struggles she faced in her life, and I
believe that she is one of the most courageous people out there. Her rise to fame started at the
young age of 16 and she has taken blow after blow since then. Today, I will explain how she
showed great courage, strong perseverance, undeniable confidence, and everlasting patience
while still getting her story out.
Courage
At 16 years old, Britney was given the opportunity to showcase her voice on the all-new Mickey
Mouse Club TV with some other artist you may know such as Justin Timberlake and Christina
Aguilera. She showed great courage leaving her small town of Kentwood, Louisiana to go to
Hollywood. We all know that Hollywood is a hard industry to get in, but Britney had a plan to
continue her stardom and become famous as was her dream. She had the courage to make a
demo and was later signed by Jive records. At the mere age of 16, she was hitting the top charts
with her first single ‘Baby One More Time’ and continued to make hit after hit the following
years. Like many of our favourite celebrities, the fame began to eat at Britney, and she became
involved with many illegal and addictive substances.
Perseverance
Following her addiction and a severe case of postpartum depression her father Jamie Spears
placed her under a conservatorship with him as the conservator. She stated that during the 13
years she was under said conservatorship her father abused his power and continuously stole
money from her. She claimed to have gotten clean years before but her father not wanting to lose
his income kept insisting that she was not better and needed his care. In 2019 Jamie stepped
down from his role due to ‘health issues’ allowing a court-appointed professional to take care of
Britney and that is when Britney started fighting to take back control of her own life.
Patience
While it took some time to completely abolish her conservatorship Britney showed great
patience. After waiting 15 years a couple more would not hurt. She final abolished her
conservatorship in November of 2021. Since breaking her conservatorship many of her family
members have come out with different stories of ‘Who Britney really is’. This includes her sister
Jamie-Lynn Spears known for her role as Zoey in the nickelodeon show Zoey 101. Britney used
her connections to get her sister that roll because she wanted her sister to be famous as well.
Jamie-Lynn messed up her sister’s hard work by getting pregnant at the age of sixteen which
caused nickelodeon to cancel the show as well as their contract with Jamie-Lynn. Jamie-Lynn
stated that Britney should have helped her out after the incident but left her high and dry.
Britney tried hard to hold her tongue, but Jamie-Lynn wrote a book mentioning Britney more
than 200 times. Britney told her truth respectfully and then left it at that while to this day Jamie-
Lynn still brings up her name.
Confidence
So much of Britney’s family has spoken about her in recent months including her ex-husband
and two sons. A video was posted by one her son’s showing Britney yelling at them. It is clear
that he had hoped that his mother would be seen as an abuser but most if not, all saw her as a
mother discipling her child for leaving the house without shoes. Many felt bad for Britney as
even her own children had been poisoned by those who envy her.
As of today, Britney has remarried and has a new baby on the way. She is living her best and the
world who is watching from the outside in continuously wish her well and send positive
thoughts.