The biggest revelations in Britney Spears' book The Woman in Me

Britney Spears' life story is heading to the big screen, with Wicked director Jon M. Chu lined up to direct a biopic about the pop icon.

The filmmaker said he was "very excited" about the movie, which will be adapted from Spears' 2023 tell-all memoir The Woman in Me. "I think there's huge potential about telling a great story, one that she deserves," he told E! News.

In a separate interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Chu said the film could explore "how we treat people, young people, stars that we think we own, women, mothers".

No release date has been set yet, but it could be a while until Spears' biopic reaches multiplexes. No screenwriter or actor has been hired, although American Horror Story's Emma Roberts has declared an interest in taking on the role.

The Woman in Me is filled with revelations about Spears' years in the spotlight, and many of these could be woven into the biopic's script. Here are five of the biggest bombshells from the book.

1. Her conservatorship

Between 2008 and 2021, Spears was under a conservatorship, which gave her father Jamie Spears the ability to manage her life in multiple ways.

In the book, she says the legal arrangement "stripped me of my womanhood". She adds: "I became more of an entity than a person onstage. I had always felt music in my bones and my blood; they stole that from me."

2. Her abortion

Spears says she had an abortion during her relationship with Justin Timberlake, who she dated between 1999 and 2002, because he "wasn't happy about the pregnancy" and "didn't want to be a father".

Spears writes: "He said we weren't ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young. If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it."

3. Her head-shaving incident

The Toxic singer also speaks about why she shaved her head in 2007. The singer says the infamous incident was a way of "pushing back" against "people telling me what they thought of my body".

She was "out of [her] mind with grief" at the time after losing a highly publicised custody battle with ex-husband Kevin Federline.

4. Her 'brawl' with Colin Farrell

Spears claims she had a brief fling with Colin Farrell in early 2003, in the wake of her split from Timberlake, after meeting the Irish actor during the filming of his action flick SWAT.

"We wound up having a two-week brawl," she writes. "Brawl is the only word for it – we were all over each other, grappling so passionately it was like we were in a street fight."

5. Her 'terrifying' VMAs performance

Spears admits she was "terrified" when performing with a snake wrapped around her shoulders at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs).

"All I knew was to look down, because I felt if I looked up and caught its eye, it would kill me," she writes of the albino Burmese python, which hissed at her during the rendition of I'm a Slave 4 U.

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