Britney Spears Speaks Out: Reveals Why She Cut Off All Her Hair In 2007

Britney Spears finally talks about the infamous moment in 2007 when she shaved all her hair off in her memoir, ‘The Woman in Me.’ The popular narrative at the time was that Spears’ declining health was responsible for her erratic behavior. Now, after more than a decade, the singer is revealing what made her shave off her head 16 years ago.

In her heavily anticipated memoir, Spears writes, “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.”

She adds, “Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of pushing back.”

A look at what happened 16 years ago…

During that time, Spears, who was 26 at the time, was going through a painful divorce and custody battle with Kevin Federline. She was a tabloid fixture and was under constant scrutiny and hounded by paparazzi wherever she went.

She was going through a difficult period in her life and was constantly in and out of rehab. In between a series of stays in rehabs, one evening Britney, along with her bodyguards, showed up at Esther Tognozzi’s Hair Salon in Tarzana, California. When the hairdresser refused to shave off her head, Britney grabbed a trimmer and began shaving her own hair. The paparazzi snapped photos of Britney giving herself a buzzcut through the windows.

The same year, Britney Spears also had several public meltdowns, such as lashing out at the paparazzi with an umbrella. She also got charged with a hit-and-run and driving without a license. At the time, all these events supported the view that Britney Spears’ mental health was in decline leading to her father, James Spears, being granted conservatorship of Britney and her estate.

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