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The Woman In Me

4 min readNov 14, 2023

I preordered this book the moment it was available. The Woman In Me is a great book that is full of raw and honest accounts. Over the years I have started to appreciate Britney even more. Britney needed this book to heal. Even if the book may be ghost-written, I felt her voice is present. This is the book that so many wanted to read after she had been silenced for so long. As a child and teenager, I had no idea how vilified Britney was. A childhood star that had been used and abused in every single way. The people who should have taken care of her exploited her.

I don’t normally review books that have already had lots of reviews and feedback because I would parrot what the others are saying, but I felt obliged to share my thoughts on this book. Britney’s memoir puts all the pieces in the puzzle that people have been trying to put together for years. reading this, I understood the pain and the mistakes that Britney made. She put her faith in the wrong people, but she should not have been treated the way she was.

My favourite parts of the book is where she talks about her passion for singing and dancing. It kept me through the book even though I wanted to stop when things got heavy. The accounts of her mental breakdown read fresh as if it was happening right now.

The Woman in Me taught me that Hollywood Pop Culture is built upon misogyny. Britney admits to having a…

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Chloe Gilholy
Chloe Gilholy

Written by Chloe Gilholy

Author of the dystopian sci-fi novel, Game of Mass Destruction.

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