Britney Spears FINALLY Breaks Silence On 2007 Hair-Shaving Incident

In 2007, pop star Britney Spears publicly shaved her head. The incident sparked widespread concern for her mental health and ultimately landed her in a conservatorship that started in February 2008 and lasted until November 2021.

During that time, the “Toxic” singer’s personal and financial affairs were largely controlled by her father, Jamie Spears, now 71. Britney has been vocal on social media about her thoughts on the conservatorship, but for the first time, fans will finally get to hear her unfiltered thoughts in her own words in "The Woman In Me."

On Tuesday, exactly one week before her bombshell memoir “The Woman In Me” hit bookshelves, People magazine released a few excerpts from Britney’s new tell-all book. One of the excerpts reveals Britney’s reason for cutting off all of her hair ahead of the start of her conservatorship.

In her upcoming book, Britney wrote, “I’d been eyeballed so much growing up. I’d been looked up and down and had people telling me what they thought of my body since I was a teenager. Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of pushing back.”

Unfortunately, after her conservatorship started, she no longer got a say in how she looked. “I was made to understand that those days were now over,” she wrote. “I had to grow my hair out and get back into shape. I had to go to bed early and take whatever medication they told me to take.”

In 2007, the “Girl In The Mirror” singer walked into Esther’s Haircutting Studio in Tarzana, California, and asked for them to shave her head. After the salon’s owner, Esther Tognozzi, refused to do so, Britney grabbed the clippers herself and started shaving her own head while paparazzi snapped photos through the windows.

The following week, the Princess of Pop was photographed attacking a photographer’s car with an umbrella, prompting multiple calls for an intervention. Both incidents happened while Britney was going through a public divorce and custody battle with her ex-husband, Kevin Federline. Months later, her conservatorship started in February 2008.

Earlier in the day, People magazine released another excerpt from Britney’s memoir that focused on her life during her 13-year conservatorship. The 41-year-old “Overprotected” singer described herself as a “child-robot” after being “infantilized” during her 13-year conservatorship, which was struck down by a judge in November 2021.

“I became a robot. But not just a robot — a sort of child-robot. I had been so infantilized that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself,” the pop star wrote in her memoir. “The conservatorship stripped me of my womanhood, made me into a child. I became more of an entity than a person onstage. I had always felt music in my bones and my blood; they stole that from me.”

The “Hold It Against Me” singer went on to say that she felt “like a shadow of myself” and described how she was “robbed” of her freedom. “This is what’s hard to explain, how quickly I could vacillate between being a little girl and being a teenager and being a woman, because of the way they had robbed me of my freedom,” she wrote. “There was no way to behave like an adult, since they wouldn’t treat me like an adult, so I would regress and act like a little girl; but then my adult self would step back in — only my world didn’t allow me to be an adult.”

“The woman in me was pushed down for a long time. They wanted me to be wild onstage, the way they told me to be, and to be a robot the rest of the time. I felt like I was being deprived of those good secrets of life — those fundamental supposed sins of indulgence and adventure that make us human,” she added. “They wanted to take away that specialness and keep everything as rote as possible. It was death to my creativity as an artist.”

Fans can read the rest of “The Woman In Me” when it is officially released on Tuesday, October 24. An audiobook for Britney Spears' memoir will also be released. Although the “Stronger” singer reads the introduction to her memoir, the rest of the book will be narrated by Oscar-nominated actress Michelle Williams.