October 17, 2023
Britney Spears Reveals Abortion after Pregnancy by Justin Timberlake
Emell Adolphus READ TIME: 2 MIN.
Jada Pinkett Smith isn't the only person spilling tea in a spicy memoir. It's Brit Brit's turn and she isn't holding back.
According to People magazine, the Princess of Pop revealed in an exclusive excerpt from her memoir "The Woman in Me" that she aborted Justin Timberlake's baby when she was 19 because he "didn't want to be a father."
In the excerpt, Spears writes, "Justin definitely wasn't happy about the pregnancy." Timberlake was 18 at the time. "He said we weren't ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young," she writes.
Spears was around 17 when she started dating Timberlake in 1999, and they were together until 2002.
As reported by People, Spears describes "meeting Timberlake when she was 11 on the set of 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' and her first kiss with him during a game of Truth or Dare."
The baby was a surprise, according to her.
"It wasn't a tragedy. I loved Justin so much. I always expected us to have a family together one day. This would just be much earlier than I'd anticipated," she writes.
Look for "The Woman in Me" to hit shelves Oct. 24, but more juicy details from the book are bound to hit before then.
The book's title refers to Spears being stripped over her "womanhood" via a 13-year conservatorship managed by her famer James "Jamie" Spears.
"The woman in me was pushed down for a long time," Spears wrote in an excerpt, published by People. "They wanted me to be wild onstage, the way they told me to be, and to be a robot the rest of the time."
Will you be reading "The Woman in Me"?