y’all ever just sit and cry over how horrific the treatment of young women by the entertainment industry and paparazzi was in the early/mid-2000’s and how alone those girls must have felt?
like imagine being in that situation. imagine being forced into fame in by your family starting as a little girl, having literally every aspect of your appearance and personality ripped apart before you even know what any of that means, having zero privacy during your most formative years, being stalked and harassed by paparazzi every waking moment of your life, being shown zero true kindness or mercy or love by anyone in your life including your own parents, being stereotyped as a dumb ditzy bimbo because your parents pulled you out of school to be their cash cow so now you don’t have a good education, and being constantly sexualized and body shamed by millions of people 24/7.
and when you finally break, as literally anyone would, you’re mocked to such a degree that your mental breakdown is regularly used as a punchline by everyone in the very same industry that broke you.
it is so fucking horrific and sad and I just cannot believe I have to share a planet with the people who treated those girls that way during their most desperate times of need. and the worst part is that most of them will never face an ounce of accountability for it because it’s so normalized still.
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just finished the woman in me by britney spears, and i am in awe of her strength and perseverance through all of this. the book is so straightforward & honest, and i got teary eyed in times where she described her darkest moments. i’m a britney stan now & forever
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My heart breaks for Britney, I knew her dad had exploited her but I didn’t know that her mother had a hand in it as well
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Britney photographed by her personal assistant Felicia Culotta on the set of the “Toxic” music video (December, 2003)
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