Britney Spears reveals why she shaved her hair off in 2007
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Britney Spears is ready to share her story decades after becoming a household name.
The iconic pop star, 41, has finally divulged why she shaved her head in 2007 in a new interview.
The event led to her family putting her under a conservatorship — a legal proceeding that she had been confined by until 2021.
In an excerpt from her new memoir, “The Woman in Me,” obtained by People on Tuesday, Spears got candid about cutting off her hair.
“I’d been eyeballed so much growing up. I’d been looked up and down, had people telling me what they thought of my body, since I was a teenager,” she wrote.
“Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of pushing back,” the “Piece of Me” singer continued.
A year after the experience, her father, Jamie Spears, took over authority of her finances, as well as her medical care.
“I was made to understand that those days were now over,” Spears wrote about feeling controlled by those around her.
The mother of two added: “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, Spears went to Esther’s Haircutting Studio in Tarzana, California, and asked for her hair to be cut off. When owner Esther Tognozzi refused, Spears shaved off her own hair.
Spears, who was undergoing a divorce from Kevin Federline at the time, used the salon’s razor and gave herself a buzzcut. The moment was captured by photographers who were camped outside the establishment.
The “Toxic” crooner scribbed: “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.”
Just days later, she was photographed attacking a photographer’s car with an umbrella.
The following year, she was put on two involuntary psychiatric holds, with Jamie becoming her legal guardian.
Over a decade after the hair-shaving incident, the “Crossroads” star’s conservatorship was finally dissolved and came to an end in 2021.
“The conservatorship stripped me of my womanhood, made me into a child,” Spears wrote. “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.”
“If they’d let me live my life, I know I would’ve followed my heart and come out of this the right way and worked it out,” she recalled in her memoir. “Thirteen years went by with me feeling like a shadow of myself. I think back now on my father and his associates having control over my body and my money for that long and it makes me feel sick.”
“The Woman in Me” hits stores Oct. 24.
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