Book description
Britney
tells the full, amazing story of the rollercoaster life of one of the
world's most popular stars. Travel with best selling author Sean Smith
across America as he paints a picture of the real Britney Spears - a
little church-going Southern girl described by her tutor at Disney as
‘the sweetest, most wholesome, most innocent person that you'd ever want
to meet', who became a desperately unhappy victim of fame.
Britney Spears was a child star on Broadway at ten, with Disney at
eleven, a number one recording artist at seventeen and a multi
millionairess before her eighteenth birthday. But that success counted
for nothing as she faced the agony of a marriage break-up that left her
battling for custody of her two sons. Her eventual breakdown was seen on
television by millions around the world. Few could forget the sight of a
distressed Britney strapped to an ambulance trolley on her way to a
psychiatric unit.
But, incredibly, it was not the last we heard of Britney and
phoenix-like she recovered to produce a US number one single and album,
and headline a sell out world tour in 2009. Using a series of exclusive
interviews Sean Smith reveals a complex yet genuinely nice young woman
who at last seems to be winning. Sean Smith is one of the UK's leading
celebrity biographers, whose bestselling books have been translated
throughout the world. His subjects include Cheryl Cole, Victoria
Beckham, Robbie Williams, Kylie Minogue and Jennifer Aniston. Described
by the Independent as a ‘fearless chronicler', he specializes in
meticulous research, going ‘on the road' to find the real person behind
the star image.
