Britney Spears: I had abortion while dating Justin Timberlake

Extracts from pop singer’s new memoir reveal effect of controversial conservatorship arrangement she eventually escaped, and termination of pregnancy

Britney Spears arriving at an MTV VMA awards ceremony.

The first extracts from Britney Spears’ highly anticipated memoir The Woman in Me have been published, documenting the cruelty she allegedly experienced during the unusual conservatorship arrangement she was placed under between 2008 and 2021, and an abortion she reportedly had while dating Justin Timberlake.

In the extracts published by People magazine in the US ahead of the book’s publication on October 24, Spears writes of the abortion: “For me, [the pregnancy] wasn’t a tragedy. I loved Justin so much. I always expected us to have a family together one day. This would just be much earlier than I’d anticipated.