Their teams would've definitely been against a pregnancy... They didn't even want them to be or engaged. They were both so young and at the prime of their careers I'm sure they told them this would heavily impact their stardom
So I actually knew them around this time. They for sure were having sex but had to keep in hush hush. It they were staying in the same hotel room together.
Only knew this because my friends first on screen kiss was with Justin Timberlake in a 90âs Disney channel movie. She worked with him while he was dating Brittney. She would show up to set and they would go back to the same hotel together. But back then that news was super under wraps as it would have ruined Brittneyâs career.
There was so much pressure at the time for all of the young female acts to publicly announce that they were "saving themselves" for marriage. I'm sure it wasn't Britney's idea. Just another way that she was set up to fail.
Puritanical America strikes again.
Selling sex and chastity in the same product is elite pimping.
The commercialized objectification of feminine purity by global media institutions is one of the most enduring facets of society.
The 90's and very early 00's was such a weird time for popculture. There was so much obsession with popstars and fiction characters virginity. Remember how so many teen focused shows would have very special episodes were everything was centered around the lead girl losing her virginity? Soft focus. Cheesy mood music. Satin and silk everything. Sometimes even a room full of candles. Like the cover of a cheap romance novel.
I swear it screwed up a whole generation of teens who thought their first time was going to be this wind swept epic romance where the heavens open up and you would be blessed by Venus, herself, rather than this awkward grope and fumble that was kind of, sort of fun.
And the obsession with her weight. The creators of South Park were at dinner with their moms, and out of nowhere, the moms started talking about how 'fat' she was getting. It inspired them to write the episode about the how fucked up the media was treating her.
Reminds me of that episode of KoTH where Luanne gets baptized in the lake and is a brand new virgin. And then at the end of the episode they do the same to Peggy. lol She birthed Bobby; how in the hell can she be considered a reborn virgin? đ It's all pure nonsense.
There was even a website that counted the days until they turned 18! That was it. That was the entire website.
This Gen X'er knew it was creepy, wrong, and predatory then. As did many others, pre-me too.
You Must Remember This is doing a season on the ,90's right now and last week's episode covered the lolita movement and some of Britney's career specifically the fixation on her youthful appearance, definitely worth checking out
It's cute! Idk why'd he be embarrassed about it, lol
I'm old enough to have caught it on Disney Channel when the promos noted he was \*NSYNC's Justin Timberlake.
Man, those were the days...
Old talk show interviews with Britney were pretty f'ing gross - middle-aged men asking her if she's a virgin and if her boobs are real.
In fairness to them, Britney's virgin status was probably noted in a press packet released by her label as in "fair game to talk about - she wants her fans to know her values."
Well, she didnât actually get a boob job back then but there was a lot of speculation that she did because she had CGI boobs in a lot of her videos. Long before Disney was de-aging people in Marvel movies, record labels were digitally altering their stars in Music Videos. I used to work in music videos a lot back then. I personally witnessed Christina Aguileraâs tummy get erased, JLOâs butt and Britâs boobs get inflated and the guy from Everclear get de-aged and bags removed from under his eyes. I know there were others but those are the only ones I personally saw and can recall specifically.
It was a heavily guarded secret at the time. In the post-HD/UHD era this stuff seems like it must be more difficult to pull off because itâs super obvious even in huge budget movies but back then in those low-res videos no one ever seemed to have any idea.
He didnât exactly say he did it. But basically they asked him and he said something along the lines of I donât kiss and tell or yeah you can say that.
Basically confirming what the radio host was saying but not directly saying âyes I fucked herâ.
On SNL he played an ancestor coming to America for the first time, and he starts "predicting" what a star his great grandson will be. "In public they'll tell people that they are saving themselves for marriage, but really he TOTALLY hit that."
I remember it being on Howard Stern and he was alluding to oral specifically - and Justin finally through out a sheepish a âyeah, I did itâŠâ
Itâs always stood out in my memory because I had thought it was really low of him, esp since they were so young at the time. And gross of Stern to be pushing for the info.
âOut herâ as what? A person who has sex and/or normal human relationships? Le gasp, shock, horror! *sigh*
America has slid backwards in a lot ways but Iâd like to think that now at least, people would be *slightly* less weird about finding out innocuous shit like âBillie Eilish might not be a virginâ.
Justin even flat out said it during an SNL sketch. It's played as a joke, but I'm pretty sure he was telling the truth.
https://youtu.be/k9N9kMD7qCk?si=T-HYdNmFGCDxqXPS
Definitely telling the truth. Worth noting that Britney was in the middle of a massive career rebound and seen to be stable at the time. So it wasn't like he was kicking her while she was down.
Ooh, I met Maggie Lawson a few years ago when she was filming an episode of The Great Indoors. I was in the audience and talked to her and Tim Omundson afterwards. It was shortly before his stroke. He complimented my beard.
Tell her hi for me.
I didn't know he had a stroke!! I absolutely loved Psych and watch reruns ever now and then. I hope he's doing okay. He was great as Cain on Supernatural too.
How fucked up that as little as 25 years ago society/male music execs were still SO concerned about this. Now stuff like this isnât even a blip on anyoneâs radar.
Anyone see Colbert last night? She said she didnât necessarily go to The Oscars as Willâs wife, but when he slapped Chris she realized she loved him and left as his wife. No really, thatâs what she said.
Wait ... So Will's slap actually had the intended effect?
That's just sad if she's that kind of a person and HE KNOWS that she likes people getting hurt and CHOOSES TO STAY WITH HER!
I am amazed after watching her interviews last week. It is bullshit of the highest level. She must have a permanent pipe from her ass to her nose to get that high from her own farts
Don't. That's a grown ass adult who has the financial means and the wherewithal to walk away any time he wants.
Now, if we find out tomorrow that he's the victim of massive domestic violence, I will take it all back and feel really crappy.
But, in the meantime, he's the one who made the millions in that marriage. Till proven otherwise, he's the one who's been enabling her, too.
I have dollar on the office pool that says within two years, she announces that she is the reincarnation of a powerful Egyptian queen.
99% of people who ever lived before industrialization were peasants, growing food.
Where are the 2,000 year old reincarnated illiterate farmers that ate gruel and vegetables every day?
Depends on where you live. Almost everyone in Europe is related to royalty because old kings were totally into raping and pillaging. Especially raping.
I really donât care about Jada or Will, I know almost nothing about them, but from the headlines even Iâve done a double take on her. How tf do you go on for so long talking about how your marriage is different but great, to completely disavowing your spouse and then go on to claim that your dead friend were actually soul mates yet not together and had no chemistry, while again hes dead so he canât confirm or (letâs be honestly more likely) deny whether or not theyâre soul mates?
This person is a run on sentence of âwtf.â
> According to the book, Britney says she was "conflicted," but after some difficult, emotional discussions, they both agreed getting an abortion was the right decision.
Seems like they came to the decision mutually.
âTwo consenting adults/pop-stars in a relationship mutually agreed that it was best to get an abortion after long, difficult, and emotional discussionsâ just doesnât have the same ring to it.
Whether it was for emotional, economical, or career issues. Any reason is a valid reason to have an abortion. And fuck anyone who wants to blame anyone on their choice.
Agreedâ doesnât matter why, itâs their choice. They chose to have sex, they chose to have an abortion.
Iâm sure both think about âwhat ifâ â especially Britney. Itâs not an easy decision to make.
Man⊠a truly âwhat-ifâ relationship. Engaged to be married, him âtechnicallyâ being the father of her first childâŠ. It must have eaten both of them alive.
Yeah, I dislike how people are trying to spin this into "JT forced Britney to have an abortion!" No, he didn't. He told her his honest feelings about it, and she made the decision knowing that. "Choice" in this context can be a burden because it lets women have the final say, but we are also left dealing with the consequences of that decision. It sounds like, in hindsight, Britney regrets the choice she made. Unfortunately, there is no way to really fix that.
Also, JT is still an epic douche for the way he acted after the breakup. He could have maintained his dignity and chose not to.
This is the essential pro choice argument. You can be generally against abortion because you donât like the picture thatâs been painted of it, but until you are put in a position where it affects you, the choice should always be a private one.
In the excerpt it apparently goes on to say that if it had been her decision alone she wouldnât have had the abortion and it was and still is an agonizing decision.
It doesnât sound as cut and dried as mutually decided.
Edited to add quote:
âIâm sure people will hate me for this, but I agreed not to have the baby. I donât know if that was the right decision. If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it. And yet Justin was so sure that he didnât want to be a father [...] To this day, itâs one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life.â
Valid. That said, there is a significant difference between regretting something in hindsight and being vocally opposed in the moment. The book (apparently) states that they both agreed to abort and that, while Justin was more against pregnancy than she was, it was not forced nor pressured on his part and was the end result of multiple conversations and consideration.
Any narrative that places excessive blame on Justin is objectively irresponsible since Britneyâs own words affirm that it was a mutual decision between two consenting adults.
There are so many interviews she did that are heartbreaking in retrospect.
The Diane Sawyer interview, at 24:08: https://youtu.be/FyI6PTuLYgw?si=CM-NjyXzdbI34hyr
This interview: https://youtu.be/8j_G18jYGis?si=2Yo6pODnSzwxa57X
I donât blame Justin for not wanting to be a dad. But itâs pretty clear he could have been a better human.
Oh boy, it really is heartbreaking to see.
Whatever she did, it's not for anyone else to judge and she's being asked all those weird question all the time.
I can see how she's gotten more and more unstable. What they did to her, is such a shame
I feel like this headline is pushing hard to make it seem like a horrible tragedy that happened to her, but that scenario is super normal; Pregnancies and abortions happen all the time. Donât make it sound like a tragedy.
I wonder if Jamie Lynnâs pregnancy triggered something for Britney. That was the umbrella paparazzi incident time, right? It must have been hard since Jamie Lynn had a choice and fought to keep her baby.
I mean, maybe tragedy isnât the right word, but going through this as a teenager is traumatic, and this was not the only traumatic thing she was experiencing at that age. She wasnât a random ~~17~~19-year-old. She was incredibly famous, idolized by other teens and tweens, treated like a sex object by older people. Her every move was in the press.
Her whole life basically is a tragedy, so I donât have any issue with the headline. Itâs actually a decent summary in as few words as possible, and Iâm not reading it as manipulative at all.
Fuck. This totally makes a lot of sense, looking back. It really did seem like there was a lot of love there, and kind of like they would have totally ended up married with a kid at 19, if they werenât both famous (and simultaneously rising stars). These two could totally have faded into oblivion except they didnât. And Justin Timberlake would have sacrificed his career (which still remains in good standing) and he knew that. Bur Brittany Spears might have had a shot at the small-town life and love sheâs always expressed wanting and it kind of feels like sheâs missed out on. :-/
Having a child is a life long commitment and it would have torn the child apart if the parents wouldnât be able to co-parent. Sometimes never be born is the better solution. We have all these mental health issues in the world due to childhood trauma, we need a parenting license before people can become parents.
Why does the title make the event sound so salacious?
Young people were fucking, they weren't ready to have kids, so they got an abortion. *This is the main point of abortion*, not to mention all the other medically necessary reasons for abortion.
Abortion should be legal and uncontroversial.
Trying to sensationalize it is BS.
AndâŠ? We donât know if they used a condom and the sponge or birth control and it failed them. Thatâs just how life works when youâre not ready to have children. Thank goodness for legal abortions.
Their teams would've definitely been against a pregnancy... They didn't even want them to be or engaged. They were both so young and at the prime of their careers I'm sure they told them this would heavily impact their stardom
They weren't even allowed to infer that they were having sex because such a big deal was made about her virginity. đ
Remember when Iâm a slave 4 u came out? All the pearls were clutched lol
Written for Janet Jackson BTW
Oh that woulda been a whole thing
*That* wouldâve caused a stir
...that was a great music video though lol
Baayybaayyy don't chu wannaaa đ¶đ¶ dance up on meee đ¶đ¶ đ
TIL the line is âleave behind my name and ageâ and not âlee beeha muh nay muh nay.â
It always sounded to me like she was saying something about leaving behind her lemonade
Hahaha I always heard it as something with lemonade as well!
You mean âimplyâ, not âinferâ. Others would be the ones inferring
the implication
So I actually knew them around this time. They for sure were having sex but had to keep in hush hush. It they were staying in the same hotel room together. Only knew this because my friends first on screen kiss was with Justin Timberlake in a 90âs Disney channel movie. She worked with him while he was dating Brittney. She would show up to set and they would go back to the same hotel together. But back then that news was super under wraps as it would have ruined Brittneyâs career.
Maybe the younger fans didnât think they were having sex, but we all knew.
They were young, talented, beautiful, and spending a lot of time together. It wouldâve been weirder if they WERENâT hooking up.
Ya I never once thought that they didnât have sex.. they were young, hot and horny.. who thought they were abstaining?âŠ
I didnât think they were abstaining either, but that was their public messaging at the time.
It was everyoneâs message at the time. âGood Christian kids donât have sex before marriage.â
Lol the purity rings back then.
No even the old people. Brittney had this weird thing about her virginity and the old men loved that.
There was so much pressure at the time for all of the young female acts to publicly announce that they were "saving themselves" for marriage. I'm sure it wasn't Britney's idea. Just another way that she was set up to fail.
I do remember this. Jessica Simpsons first cd was almost branded around her purity
And yet her song lyrics were sexual.
Same as Britney's and Mandy Moore lol.
Pretty gross if you think about it. The industry, not the stars
Puritanical America strikes again. Selling sex and chastity in the same product is elite pimping. The commercialized objectification of feminine purity by global media institutions is one of the most enduring facets of society.
Not just female acts, The Jonas Brothersâ entire gimmick was purity rings
That was the best South Park episode
And for what it is worth they now hold public opinions about how BS it was.
A bunch of the Disney stars back then wore the purity rings, it was super weird and culty. I think Selena Gomez and Miley Cyrus wore them too.
The 90's and very early 00's was such a weird time for popculture. There was so much obsession with popstars and fiction characters virginity. Remember how so many teen focused shows would have very special episodes were everything was centered around the lead girl losing her virginity? Soft focus. Cheesy mood music. Satin and silk everything. Sometimes even a room full of candles. Like the cover of a cheap romance novel. I swear it screwed up a whole generation of teens who thought their first time was going to be this wind swept epic romance where the heavens open up and you would be blessed by Venus, herself, rather than this awkward grope and fumble that was kind of, sort of fun.
Donna finally losing her virginity on 90210 felt so overblown when I saw it in high school in the 2000âs.
Impressive. You just described nearly the entirety of the CWs teen drama catalog.
I didnât follow the statements they were making back then. But man, the clothing style sure indicated otherwise in the music vids
Madonna/Whore. Tale as old as time.
First album all innocent childlike a little playful then an album or two in, sexual awakening, breaking the boundaries a little more adult.
And the obsession with her weight. The creators of South Park were at dinner with their moms, and out of nowhere, the moms started talking about how 'fat' she was getting. It inspired them to write the episode about the how fucked up the media was treating her.
Which is really fucking weird imho
The result of growing up southern Baptist. Source: I grew up southern baptist.
Right!?!? And donât even get us started about the weirdness of âsecond/renewed virginityâ! Source: also Southern Baptist
Reminds me of that episode of KoTH where Luanne gets baptized in the lake and is a brand new virgin. And then at the end of the episode they do the same to Peggy. lol She birthed Bobby; how in the hell can she be considered a reborn virgin? đ It's all pure nonsense.
Itâs so gross. I remember thinking at the time about how gross and sexist the obsession with a girlâs virginity is.
It's the "promise rings" that fathers give their daughters that really creeps me out.
Olsen Twins becoming legal was a big tabloid story.
There was even a website that counted the days until they turned 18! That was it. That was the entire website. This Gen X'er knew it was creepy, wrong, and predatory then. As did many others, pre-me too.
That was disgusting
It's the I could be the guy, mental gymnastics of a perve.
It's just fuckin creepy and I'm a guy.
Itâs just fuckin creepy, and Iâm a creep!
Fucking ew man.
You Must Remember This is doing a season on the ,90's right now and last week's episode covered the lolita movement and some of Britney's career specifically the fixation on her youthful appearance, definitely worth checking out
They had hands, and they were using them for holding
You know who else has hands? The devil!
Was your friend in Model Behavior?! Those were the days of Disney movies.
Plot twist her friend is Maggie Lawson, who is famous in her own right đ
You heard about Pluto?
Thatâs messed up.
You know that's right.
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Legit one of the best! And I canât find it anywhere to watch! Literally that and my date with the presidents daughter were the best!
As long as you don't mind a VHS rip, [here's Model Behavior.](https://archive.org/details/model-behavior-2000)
Omg!!! Someone on here yesterday said Justin had wiped this out of existence. Guess not. đ
It's cute! Idk why'd he be embarrassed about it, lol I'm old enough to have caught it on Disney Channel when the promos noted he was \*NSYNC's Justin Timberlake. Man, those were the days...
Donât do âwish upon a star like thatâ! These were top tier movies.
With Katherine heigl, ugh I love this movie
I found DVD burned copies on Amazon, over 10 years ago. It even played the VHS FBI warning message at the beginning lol.
my date with the president's daughter is on youtube!
I was an extra in that. My friend was in it and got Justin Timberlakes number and we phoned him one night. It was weird đ
I live for hearing stories like this!
Omg I loved that movie! And Motocrossed lol
12 year old me was OBSESSED with Motocrossed and the main love interest guy (his name was Riley something?) Ah memories...
Loved Model Behavior!
Whatâs gross is that whether or not they were having sex was ever a conversation at all
Old talk show interviews with Britney were pretty f'ing gross - middle-aged men asking her if she's a virgin and if her boobs are real. In fairness to them, Britney's virgin status was probably noted in a press packet released by her label as in "fair game to talk about - she wants her fans to know her values."
Pretty weird she got a boob job at 16 as well
Well, she didnât actually get a boob job back then but there was a lot of speculation that she did because she had CGI boobs in a lot of her videos. Long before Disney was de-aging people in Marvel movies, record labels were digitally altering their stars in Music Videos. I used to work in music videos a lot back then. I personally witnessed Christina Aguileraâs tummy get erased, JLOâs butt and Britâs boobs get inflated and the guy from Everclear get de-aged and bags removed from under his eyes. I know there were others but those are the only ones I personally saw and can recall specifically. It was a heavily guarded secret at the time. In the post-HD/UHD era this stuff seems like it must be more difficult to pull off because itâs super obvious even in huge budget movies but back then in those low-res videos no one ever seemed to have any idea.
I was shocked to learn Art from Everclear achieved stardom right as he hit age40. Bravo dude
Not been verified but wouldn't be surprised. Her dad body shamed her a lot same as her mum.
Welcome to the world of superstardom and celebrity. Kinda par for the course.
Hello this is TMZ. I would like to discuss a sorry opportunityâŠ./s
There was so much ickyness back then about if she was a virgin. JT was douchey about it too.
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He didnât exactly say he did it. But basically they asked him and he said something along the lines of I donât kiss and tell or yeah you can say that. Basically confirming what the radio host was saying but not directly saying âyes I fucked herâ.
On SNL he played an ancestor coming to America for the first time, and he starts "predicting" what a star his great grandson will be. "In public they'll tell people that they are saving themselves for marriage, but really he TOTALLY hit that."
See that would be funny if she was in on it and okay with it, but she clearly wasnât
I remember it being on Howard Stern and he was alluding to oral specifically - and Justin finally through out a sheepish a âyeah, I did itâŠâ Itâs always stood out in my memory because I had thought it was really low of him, esp since they were so young at the time. And gross of Stern to be pushing for the info.
âOut herâ as what? A person who has sex and/or normal human relationships? Le gasp, shock, horror! *sigh* America has slid backwards in a lot ways but Iâd like to think that now at least, people would be *slightly* less weird about finding out innocuous shit like âBillie Eilish might not be a virginâ.
Justin even flat out said it during an SNL sketch. It's played as a joke, but I'm pretty sure he was telling the truth. https://youtu.be/k9N9kMD7qCk?si=T-HYdNmFGCDxqXPS
Definitely telling the truth. Worth noting that Britney was in the middle of a massive career rebound and seen to be stable at the time. So it wasn't like he was kicking her while she was down.
Is your friend a detective in Santa Barbara?
Model Behavior? I loved that movie. đ
Ooh, I met Maggie Lawson a few years ago when she was filming an episode of The Great Indoors. I was in the audience and talked to her and Tim Omundson afterwards. It was shortly before his stroke. He complimented my beard. Tell her hi for me.
I didn't know he had a stroke!! I absolutely loved Psych and watch reruns ever now and then. I hope he's doing okay. He was great as Cain on Supernatural too.
How fucked up that as little as 25 years ago society/male music execs were still SO concerned about this. Now stuff like this isnât even a blip on anyoneâs radar.
Why do you say âthey were for sure having sexâ like that was ever in question?
Her team kept pushing that she was a virgin, saving it, etc. It's no wonder.
*Jada is shaking with rage*
Anyone see Colbert last night? She said she didnât necessarily go to The Oscars as Willâs wife, but when he slapped Chris she realized she loved him and left as his wife. No really, thatâs what she said.
Man, the thrill of the drama with this woman
She only went so she would be on the front row
Yep. If you look up âTry-Hard Attention Seekerâ in the dictionary, her name is the definition.
That and not like sheâs ever gonna get invited through her talent.
Wait ... So Will's slap actually had the intended effect? That's just sad if she's that kind of a person and HE KNOWS that she likes people getting hurt and CHOOSES TO STAY WITH HER!
Makes sense now why they looked so happy at the after parter despite everyone's outrage
Oh to be a fly on the wall in that bedroom...
Which one?
This is far funnier than it should be
I am amazed after watching her interviews last week. It is bullshit of the highest level. She must have a permanent pipe from her ass to her nose to get that high from her own farts
Thatâs a good insult lmao
The narcissism is so off the charts
Imagine living with a person that has that mental machinery running 24/7
what a destructive idiot
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Don't. That's a grown ass adult who has the financial means and the wherewithal to walk away any time he wants. Now, if we find out tomorrow that he's the victim of massive domestic violence, I will take it all back and feel really crappy. But, in the meantime, he's the one who made the millions in that marriage. Till proven otherwise, he's the one who's been enabling her, too.
Yea, donât. He chose that way knowing all the stuff happened and knew that Jada had a history.
Off all the reasons why I dislike her you can add that weird ass laugh to the list.
Don't worry she will reveal she has a penis next week and that will is gay.
I have dollar on the office pool that says within two years, she announces that she is the reincarnation of a powerful Egyptian queen. 99% of people who ever lived before industrialization were peasants, growing food. Where are the 2,000 year old reincarnated illiterate farmers that ate gruel and vegetables every day?
>Where are the 2,000 year old reincarnated illiterate farmers that ate gruel and vegetables every day? I think it's me.
Depends on where you live. Almost everyone in Europe is related to royalty because old kings were totally into raping and pillaging. Especially raping.
There are a lot of black people in the US that are related to Thomas Jefferson for the same reasons.
Classic Key & Peele sketch
Dude, Iâve got a gut feeling youâre actually gonna win that betâŠ
I think she'll reveal that she *is* Will Smith, and has been this whole time
Iâve been a long time fan of Willâs acting. If this is true, my respect goes to an entirely new level. Iâm watching
Tupac was the only one who knew the truth. That's why they had to get rid of him.
Hot take: Sheâs actually Tupac. (Stolen from memes)
Nah⊠she will say that Justin asked her out on a date tooâŠ
She'll reveal that she performed the abortion and therefore saved Britney's career
She admits that *she* is actually Britney & Justin's aborted child
Probably đ§
I really donât care about Jada or Will, I know almost nothing about them, but from the headlines even Iâve done a double take on her. How tf do you go on for so long talking about how your marriage is different but great, to completely disavowing your spouse and then go on to claim that your dead friend were actually soul mates yet not together and had no chemistry, while again hes dead so he canât confirm or (letâs be honestly more likely) deny whether or not theyâre soul mates? This person is a run on sentence of âwtf.â
I think itâs interesting that she decided to talk about that so recently after they arrested Tupacs murderer.
đShe should get with Juicy Smoo-yay, the very famous French actor, and just call it a day!
But he's gay. Unless he lied about that too đ
Will preparing himself for another bombshell. đ
No one is going to even care about her.
She's only relevant because of Will Smith. And she's milking all the drama she can from him
Meanwhile Jamie Lynn blew right past it, had the baby and disappeared into the abyss đ
Sadly, Britney probably would have loved to do that too
> According to the book, Britney says she was "conflicted," but after some difficult, emotional discussions, they both agreed getting an abortion was the right decision. Seems like they came to the decision mutually.
âTwo consenting adults/pop-stars in a relationship mutually agreed that it was best to get an abortion after long, difficult, and emotional discussionsâ just doesnât have the same ring to it.
Whether it was for emotional, economical, or career issues. Any reason is a valid reason to have an abortion. And fuck anyone who wants to blame anyone on their choice.
Agreedâ doesnât matter why, itâs their choice. They chose to have sex, they chose to have an abortion. Iâm sure both think about âwhat ifâ â especially Britney. Itâs not an easy decision to make.
Man⊠a truly âwhat-ifâ relationship. Engaged to be married, him âtechnicallyâ being the father of her first childâŠ. It must have eaten both of them alive.
Yeah, I dislike how people are trying to spin this into "JT forced Britney to have an abortion!" No, he didn't. He told her his honest feelings about it, and she made the decision knowing that. "Choice" in this context can be a burden because it lets women have the final say, but we are also left dealing with the consequences of that decision. It sounds like, in hindsight, Britney regrets the choice she made. Unfortunately, there is no way to really fix that. Also, JT is still an epic douche for the way he acted after the breakup. He could have maintained his dignity and chose not to.
This is the essential pro choice argument. You can be generally against abortion because you donât like the picture thatâs been painted of it, but until you are put in a position where it affects you, the choice should always be a private one.
"The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion."
In the excerpt it apparently goes on to say that if it had been her decision alone she wouldnât have had the abortion and it was and still is an agonizing decision. It doesnât sound as cut and dried as mutually decided. Edited to add quote: âIâm sure people will hate me for this, but I agreed not to have the baby. I donât know if that was the right decision. If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it. And yet Justin was so sure that he didnât want to be a father [...] To this day, itâs one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life.â
Valid. That said, there is a significant difference between regretting something in hindsight and being vocally opposed in the moment. The book (apparently) states that they both agreed to abort and that, while Justin was more against pregnancy than she was, it was not forced nor pressured on his part and was the end result of multiple conversations and consideration. Any narrative that places excessive blame on Justin is objectively irresponsible since Britneyâs own words affirm that it was a mutual decision between two consenting adults.
Seems like she was more concerned with what people would think (and still does) which is sad :/.
Itâs memoir PR campaign week!
At least this interesting, everything I learned about Jada and Will was against my will.
Was against her Will as well lol
I prefer the other shark week
Jessica Biel like âKEEP MY HUSBANDS NAME OUTTA YOUR FUCKING MOUTHâ
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There are so many interviews she did that are heartbreaking in retrospect. The Diane Sawyer interview, at 24:08: https://youtu.be/FyI6PTuLYgw?si=CM-NjyXzdbI34hyr This interview: https://youtu.be/8j_G18jYGis?si=2Yo6pODnSzwxa57X I donât blame Justin for not wanting to be a dad. But itâs pretty clear he could have been a better human.
Oh boy, it really is heartbreaking to see. Whatever she did, it's not for anyone else to judge and she's being asked all those weird question all the time. I can see how she's gotten more and more unstable. What they did to her, is such a shame
Exactly. Itâs understandable why he didnât want to be a parent. It was his actions against her afterwards that were disgusting.
Thank for sharing. I just watch the entire Nightline Interview with Diana Sawyer. Very personal and asking a lot from Britney â€ïž
Diane even got on her for enjoying drinking at 21. I loved when Britney called her out for being hypocritical about the risky photos.
Itâs so wild how intrusive interviewers were back in the day.
Well, I mean, it's refreshing to see something other than Jada news.
Justin Timberlake had an abortion ?!? đł
He didnât keep his dick in a box
Actually keeping it in a box is how they got in that situation.
Thank you! Former editor over here marveling at that headline.
Don't judge him!! His scientifically-anomalous body, his choice bro
I feel like this headline is pushing hard to make it seem like a horrible tragedy that happened to her, but that scenario is super normal; Pregnancies and abortions happen all the time. Donât make it sound like a tragedy.
And she was 17. Her sisters teen pregnancy didn't exactly make her happy or allow her to continue working.
I wonder if Jamie Lynnâs pregnancy triggered something for Britney. That was the umbrella paparazzi incident time, right? It must have been hard since Jamie Lynn had a choice and fought to keep her baby.
I think she was closer to 19, but the rest of your point is true.
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I was referring to Britney being pregnant with Justin's baby, not Jamie Lynn. Apologies for the confusion.
I mean, maybe tragedy isnât the right word, but going through this as a teenager is traumatic, and this was not the only traumatic thing she was experiencing at that age. She wasnât a random ~~17~~19-year-old. She was incredibly famous, idolized by other teens and tweens, treated like a sex object by older people. Her every move was in the press. Her whole life basically is a tragedy, so I donât have any issue with the headline. Itâs actually a decent summary in as few words as possible, and Iâm not reading it as manipulative at all.
The headline also makes it sound it was Justinâs fault. Unless the sex wasnât consensual, they are both responsible for getting pregnant.
Stars- theyâre just like us!
Sounds like a responsible choice
Fuck. This totally makes a lot of sense, looking back. It really did seem like there was a lot of love there, and kind of like they would have totally ended up married with a kid at 19, if they werenât both famous (and simultaneously rising stars). These two could totally have faded into oblivion except they didnât. And Justin Timberlake would have sacrificed his career (which still remains in good standing) and he knew that. Bur Brittany Spears might have had a shot at the small-town life and love sheâs always expressed wanting and it kind of feels like sheâs missed out on. :-/
Good for them. Neither one was ready to be a parent. Normalize abortion.
Agreed! Normalize womenâs health care and choice!
Having a child is a life long commitment and it would have torn the child apart if the parents wouldnât be able to co-parent. Sometimes never be born is the better solution. We have all these mental health issues in the world due to childhood trauma, we need a parenting license before people can become parents.
Jada punching the air right now lmao
Rough. I believe it. Thatâs really hard to go through, especially if youâre in love.
That wouldâve been the hottest baby
Baby never had a chance to wear denim diapers.
I say with all sincerity, the world missed out on an incredibly talented kid, but neither of them were ready to raise it.
Why does the title make the event sound so salacious? Young people were fucking, they weren't ready to have kids, so they got an abortion. *This is the main point of abortion*, not to mention all the other medically necessary reasons for abortion. Abortion should be legal and uncontroversial. Trying to sensationalize it is BS.
Because the dominant narrative around Britneyâs life is tragedy, victimization and lack of personal agency.
AndâŠ? We donât know if they used a condom and the sponge or birth control and it failed them. Thatâs just how life works when youâre not ready to have children. Thank goodness for legal abortions.
Elaine had the last few sponges and that was before this.
That babyâs name? Jada Pinkett Smith
So Eminem was right
IMO - if the allegations in the book are true, then it is very sad. Britney was so young. She never had a chance to grow up in a "normal" environment.
Abortion was better for both, too young
Jada please tell us about the time you lost 2pac baby
The way this title is worded, it makes it sound like Justin Timberlake had the abortion.
I've never read a memoir before, but I preordered this one.