Britney Spears is an American singer, best known for her breakthrough hit “Baby One More Time”. She began her career as a child on TV as a member of the
Mickey Mouse Club. Since then, she has gone on to become one of the best-selling recording artists of all-time.
Though her music career has been amazingly popular, the overall image she portrayed has been highly criticized. Many claimed that her music appealed heavily to children, especially impressionable young girls, and that her persona was highly sexualized. Concerned parents questioned whether or not, they wanted Spears to be a role model for their children.
Those concerned parents may have been right. Since then, her personal life has been highly publicized and scrutinized, including a relationship to pop star and fellow Mouseketeer
Justin Timberlake, a short-lived Vegas wedding, a failed marriage to a back-up dancer, drug and alcohol problems, and various tabloid rumors. Her marriage to back-up dancer
Kevin Federline produced two children and a custody battle following a divorce.
Spear has since attempted a few comebacks including a failed and heavily criticized attempt in 2007 and a more successful attempt in 2008 with the album “Circus”.
Her sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, has gone on to notoriety as well, starring in her own television program on the Disney Channel. Like her older sister, however, Jamie Lynn Spears’s personal life has also been heavily scrutinized following a controversy of her own, underage pregnancy at the age of sixteen.
