Singer Britney Spears, 41, has revealed the reasons why she shaved her head and went bald 16 years ago.
At the height of her career, in mid-2007, the artist was being hounded by paparazzi while facing psychological problems.
Britney Spears 2007 shaving head Photo
Britney, who is on the cover of the new issue of People magazine, recalled moments from that period in her biography, ‘The Woman in Me’, scheduled for release on October 24. In the book, she reveals that it was a way of showing herself to be rebellious.”I was watched a lot growing up. I was looked down on, people told me what they thought of my body, ever since I was a teenager,” she said.”Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of reacting,” she said.
After the artist was placed under court-ordered guardianship in 2008, giving her father and a lawyer control over her finances and personal life, she was forbidden to keep the bald look.
“Under the guardianship, I was made to understand that those days [of rebellion] were over. I had to let my hair grow and get back into shape. I had to go to bed early and take all the medication I was told to take. I did little creative things here and there, but my heart wasn’t in it anymore. As for my passion for singing and dancing, back then it was almost a joke. Thirteen years passed and I felt like a shadow of my former self,” she described.
“I think now of my father and his associates having control over my body and my money for so long and it makes me feel bad… Think of how many male artists have thrown all their money away; how many have had substance abuse or mental health problems. No one tried to take away control over their bodies and money. I didn’t deserve what my family did to me,” she vented in the book.
It was only in September 2021, after Spears begged the judge in open court to terminate the legal agreement, that her father, Jamie, was suspended as her conservator, and the guardianship was terminated two months later.
“For the last 15 years or even at the beginning of my career, I would see people talk about me and tell my story. After I got out of guardianship, I was finally free to tell my story without consequences from the people responsible for my life,” she said in an interview with People magazine.