MARBELLAROCKS-JANFEB2017
Lifestyle Magazine for Marbella, Costa del Sol, Spain
Lifestyle Magazine for Marbella, Costa del Sol, Spain
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Britney Spears has enjoyed over 20 years in the media spotlight, 6 number 1 albums<br />
and a further 23 Number 1 Singles. As she releases her ninth studio album ‘Glory’ to<br />
mixed reviews is it finally time for the ‘Toxic’ songstress to hang up her feather boa<br />
(or should that be boa constrictor?) Critics have panned the star for miming at her<br />
recent UK gig and although she has secured a further 2 year contract for her Las<br />
Vegas show is Britney coming to the end of her pop career path?<br />
Britney burst onto the music scene in 1999 with<br />
hit single and album of the same name ‘Hit Me<br />
Baby One More Time’ which proceeded to sell<br />
over 10 million copies – earning her the accolade<br />
of the best-selling teenage solo artist ever. Her<br />
stock continued to rise throughout the early 2000’s<br />
with album after album notching top spots and her<br />
raunchy, gregarious dance routines and costumes<br />
capturing the hearts of fans worldwide. She was an<br />
overnight teen sensation basking in the fame and<br />
fortune that comes with it. But inside Britney was<br />
secretly tortured.<br />
Managed by her parents (who went through a bitter<br />
divorce) from a young age Britney never had the<br />
chance to grow up like a normal girl. She was thrust<br />
into auditions, performing at theatres before joining<br />
the Mickey Mouse Club at the age of 11 and by the<br />
time of her solo success she was only 18.<br />
By 2006 Britney was showing signs of deep<br />
personal struggles. A young mother with a marriage<br />
on the rocks due to a tumultuous relationship with<br />
backing dancer husband Kevin Federline, Britney<br />
was pictured driving a car with her 6-month-old<br />
son Sean Preston on her lap not a baby seat. In<br />
September she gave birth to a second son Jayden<br />
James and by November of 2006 she had filed for<br />
divorce from Kevin citing “irreconcilable differences.”<br />
However, 2006 wasn’t her annus horribilis. The<br />
worse year for teen sensation Britney came in<br />
2007 when she suffered a very public meltdown<br />
which included her shaving her head, attacking<br />
paparazzi and stints in rehab which culminated in<br />
her collapsing and being hospitalised. The pictures<br />
of her strapped to a hospital gurney clearly show<br />
the singer is comatosed on drugs. It was shortly<br />
after this time that she lost joint custody of her<br />
young boys to Federline – and only given supervised<br />
visiting rights.<br />
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