“Two years is a long time to not be able to eat what you want,” in her autobiography, “The Woman in Me,” Spears wrote.
Under her conservatorship, Britney Spears claims her father forced her to adhere to a rigid diet, despite her pleas for a burger.
The pop megastar, now 41, stated in her new autobiography The Woman in Me that she was given permission by her father, Jamie Spears, to eat “almost nothing but chicken and canned vegetables” for two years.
“No matter how much I dieted and exercised, my father was always telling me I was fat. He put me on a strict diet. The irony was that we had a butler — an extravagance — and I would beg him for real food,” within her memoir, Spears writes.
She would ask him to “sneak a hamburger or ice cream” to her, the “Lucky” singer explained, but he couldn’t as he had “strict orders” from her father.
“So for two years, I ate almost nothing but chicken and canned vegetables,” she penned, then noted that “two years is a long time to not be able to eat what you want, especially when it’s your body and your work and your soul making the money that everyone’s living off of.”
“I found it so degrading,” she continued.
Jamie, who is currently 71 years old, has consistently argued that he was acting in his daughter’s best interest, despite Spears’ claims that her time living under her father’s supervision was a painful, controlling time.
“I love my daughter with all my heart and soul,” in an interview in 2022, he told the Daily Mail. “They’ve heard the allegations from Britney. I don’t mind taking that beating because I know it’s not true, and because I don’t want to start something else.”
Spears congratulated her followers on social media on Tuesday, the formal release day of her debut memoir, The Woman in Me, and declared that the book was already a historic triumph.
“It’s happening ✨🤓📖 !!! My book is the highest selling celebrity memoir in history and it’s only day 1 !!!” the caption of her Instagram photo said. “Thank you to the fans who have been so supportive !!! Love you all 🌹 !!! #TheWomanInMe @gallerybooks @simonandschuster.”
The statement, which appeared alongside a picture of her book’s cover, said, “My story. On my terms. At last,” in addition to a promotional film.
Spears stated in a different Instagram post in the days before the book’s publication that she didn’t write her memoir to “offend” anyone.
“My book’s purpose was not to offend anyone by any means,” in a message shared last week, she wrote. “That was me then… that is in the past!!!”
Spears pointed out that the majority of the events she describes in the book took place 20 years ago.
“I have moved on and it’s a beautiful clean slate from here,” she wrote. “I am here to establish it that way for the rest of my entire life!!! Either way, that is the last of it and s— happens!!”
The pop icon said that writing her book gave her “closure”.
“Hopefully I can enlighten people who feel particularly alone in most cases or hurt or misunderstood,” the singer of “Toxic” clarified. “Again my motive for this book was not to harp on my past experiences…”
