*Britney Spears is speaking out about her infamous head-shaving moment in 2007.

In her new memoir, “The Woman in Me,” out Oct. 24, Spears claims the move was an act of defiance. 

“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 writes, according to excerpts via People. 

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

Elsewhere in the book, the superstar unpacks the court-ordered conservatorship she was placed under in 2008, which granted her father, Jamie Spears, and a lawyer control over the singer’s financial and personal affairs.

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“Under the conservatorship I was made to understand that those days were now over. 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,” Spears writes, according to People.  

“I would do little bits of creative stuff here and there, but my heart wasn’t in it anymore. As far as my passion for singing and dancing, it was almost a joke at that point,” Spears adds. “Thirteen years went by with me feeling like a shadow of myself.”

She continues, “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… Think of how many male artists gambled all their money away; how many had substance abuse or mental health issues. No one tried to take away their control over their bodies and money. I didn’t deserve what my family did to me.”

Spears was freed from her 13-year conservatorship in 2021, EUR reported.

Judge Brenda Penny’s decision came after Spears and both her parents, Jamie and Lynne, filed petitions in support of the dissolution of the conservatorship.

The Los Angeles judge granted her request to choose her own counsel and subsequently approved that lawyer’s petition to have Jamie Spears immediately suspended from the conservatorship. During that hearing, Penny described Britney Spears’ conservatorship as “untenable.”

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