Even someone with the most passive possible knowledge of Britney Spears knows that she’s spent most of her adult life locked in a cage, be it one of fame, or the paparazzi, or one of her infamous, years-long conservatorship.
And even someone with the most passive possible knowledge of psychology knows that, when someone who hasn’t been free in so long tastes freedom, they take it and run with it all the way.
That’s exactly what seems to have happened in the case of Spears and the nude photos she often takes and posts to social media. (You do you, Britney.) In an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir, The Woman in Me—which, after so much anticipation, finally drops tomorrow—Spears addresses this head on: “I know that a lot of people don’t understand why I love taking pictures of myself naked or in new dresses,” she writes. “But I think if they’d been photographed by other people thousands of times, prodded and posed for other people’s approval, they’d understand that I get a lot of joy from posing the way I feel sexy and taking my own picture.”
Self-expression is a beautiful gift, one that we’re glad to see Spears finally able to enjoy. Instead of criticizing, let’s let her fully be herself—she’s waited a long time for the ability to do so. Own your power, Britney.
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