Who is Britney Spears, and what are some stunning photos of her?
Born on December 2, 1981 in McComb, Mississippi, Britney Jean Spears grew up in Louisiana where her family moved when she was 3 years old. From an early age, she showed particular aptitude for dancing and singing. And at 11 she succeeded in the casting of the show All New Mickey Mouse Club. There she met Justin Timberlake.
But it was not until 1998 that his musical career was launched. In October 1998, Baby One More Time, the first single from the album of the same name, was released. The success is dazzling, more than 25 million copies are sold thanks in particular to the clip accompanying the single. Britney Spears quickly continues on a second album entitled Oops!… I Did It Again. It has sold over 20 million copies. Besides the title track, this album also includes the hits Stronger and Lucky. At the end of 2001, she released her third album simply titled Britney. It enters directly at the first place of the rankings in the United States.
The singer then operates a radical change of style. The single I'm a Slave 4 U and its clip are controversial. In 2002, Forbes magazine crowned the most powerful celebrity in the world. In 2003, the singer provoked again during the MTV Video Music Awards where spectators were amazed by a long kiss exchanged on stage between Britney and Madonna. His fourth album, In The Zone, was released in 2003. It notably contained the single Toxic which won the Grammy Award for Best Dance Song in 2004.
After a difficult period during which the singer entered rehab, a new album was released at the end of 2007 entitled Blackout. Public reception is mixed. The descent into hell continues as Britney stays in a psychiatric hospital and the justice system decides to place her under the guardianship of her father in 2008. After a period of rest, the artist returns at the end of 2008 with a new album, Circus, boosted by the single Womanizer which reached the top of the charts in several countries. The tour that follows is a huge success.
At the end of March 2019, she was interned in a psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas. In August 2020, Britney Spears began legal proceedings to request the total lifting of her guardianship. On June 23, 2021, the singer denounced her father's behavior during a videoconference hearing in the Los Angeles court. On June 30, 2021, the Los Angeles Superior Court rejected the singer's request and maintained her guardianship.
On July 1, 2021, Lynne Spears asks the judge in charge of the case to allow her daughter to choose her lawyer and to end her guardianship gradually. A hearing is set for September 29, 2021 by the Los Angeles court. On September 29, 2021, the Los Angeles court suspended Jamie Spears from her role as guardian.
On November 12, 2021, Britney Spears was released from her guardianship by a judge in Los Angeles.
On the private side, in 2004 Britney Spears married twice. A first time on a whim with a childhood friend. Particularly short marriage since it lasts only 55 hours before being canceled. Then, at the end of the year, she married her dancer Kevin Federline. In September 2005, her first child was born, a boy named Sean Preston. In 2006, his second son, Jayden James, joined the family. But at the end of 2006 Britney Spears filed for divorce. She finds love on the arm of her ex-manager, Jason Trawick. But the couple separated at the beginning of 2013. In December 2016, she formalized with her new companion Sam Asghari and appeared with him on social networks. On September 12, 2021, in a video posted on Instagram, Britney Spears formalizes her engagement with Sam Asghari.
