Britney Spears’s gossipy celebrity memoir contains a hidden serious message

The weight of the contradiction – to be a child dressed as an adult, to be an object of allure and contempt – broke something in herthat would be October 23rd, 1998, at 16 years of age. Spears had been in theatre productions and a TV show called the Mickey Mouse Club before then, but it was the release of hit single …Baby One More Time that catapulted the teenager to international superstardom over night.

Celebrity destroyed Spears. She was forced into premature adulthood: dressed in suggestive outfits; putting on promiscuous performances; working harder than most adults; financially supporting her family. But all the while her mind slowly regressed to childhood. She admits that after she was left by her husband, separated from her children, and mourned the death of a relative she became increasingly mentally juvenile. But that was by her mid-20s.

But none of this would have ever happened had her parents and management not sought to make a 15-year-old the biggest star in the world in the first place. This book acknowledges the media’s depravity in how it covered Spears’s life. But it ought to force another reckoning too: we shouldn’t make children famous.

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