![]() But her father wasn’t saving her from herself he arguably wasn’t saving her at all. Which is why, when she first came under the conservatorship of her father, the popular reaction was good - someone is saving her from herself. ![]() That she survived at all is, in truth, remarkable. Spears grew up attempting to confine herself to the very strict understanding of Disney girlhood and teen purity culture, and then she was expected to transition into motherhood, into adulthood, during a massive shift in the way that celebrities were surveilled and made available for public consumption. She was attempting to speak, but everyone was listening the wrong way. Looking back, you can see her attempting to communicate a counternarrative with increasing desperation: in her reality show with Federline but also in her public appearances, particularly those captured by the paparazzi. Others dressed her and determined the parts of her that were most desirable and sanded off or otherwise suppressed the parts of her that didn’t fit.īritney rebelled against these strictures in the ways that were available to her - the quickie marriage in Vegas, the public and often messy relationship with Kevin Federline, the close births of her two sons - but this was before social media, and the ability for celebrities to wrest control over the narratives of their image from the gossip magazines, or their albums labels, or even their own publicists. The fact of her early stardom forced her to fast-forward past the part in her life when she got to figure out her tastes, her preferences, what did and didn’t make her feel safe or beautiful. Some people say that celebrities stop emotionally maturing at the age at which they became famous, and I think that’s the most straightforward - if oversimplified - way to read Britney’s Instagram: She’s posting like a teen. ![]() And that jaggedness makes total sense: For the first time in her life, Britney seems to be authoring her own image. It lacks all the polish and preciousness of her contemporaries. Her presence feels at once guileless, authentic, and erratic. Sometimes, she’ll post a series of the same image, each edited in a slightly different way, that makes you wonder if she did it accidentally or just couldn’t decide which one she liked best. Her fiancé, Sam Asghari, is present but effectively mute. She never posts pictures of her sons, but her understanding of herself as a mother never disappears. She often posts corny memes and screenshots of long missives about dogs or boobs or parenting, or images she finds inspiring. sitting pretty □ is my philosophy !!!! Might be doing this for a VERY VERY LONG TIME … so if you don’t like it don’t f*cking follow me and don't forget KISS IT.”) (As she explained it in a recent post: “As much FOOT WORK as I’ve had to do performing, I’m learning the art of doing !!!! Way less goes a long way … side to side. Other times, she posts footage of herself in a new outfit, doing a hip-to-hip sway like a teen in a JCPenney fashion show. She regularly posts videos of herself dancing, wholly improvised, in an open, unremarkable spaces ( most recently, at the time of this writing, to Bo Burnham’s “All Eyes on Me” - which she posted with the caption “This song is really funny … have no idea who sings it but I like dancing to it !!!”). The statement holds true for pretty much everything that appears on Britney’s Instagram, where, since she was released from her 14-year conservatorship back in November 2021, she posts anywhere between once and four times a day. I love them, not for what they are or are not, but because Britney loves herself in them. ![]() But also: bikinis, and sports bras, and occasionally a dress that looks like it was part of the Nasty Gal apparel line circa 2015.Īs I attempt to describe these clothes, I want to be clear that I have no derision for them. She knows the clothes that make her love herself too: most often, some version of a puff-cap-sleeved crop top, with a wide circle scoop neck, in a style I can only describe as the top portion of a sexy milk maid costume. She places the camera on her phone slightly above her, so it captures her looking up, as one would look up when they catch themselves on a surveillance camera. Followers of Britney Spears’ Instagram understand that these days, she knows the angles where she loves herself the most. ![]()
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