Britney Spears dropped a bombshell revelation about how she was impregnated with fellow singer Justin Timberlake before she terminated the pregnancy.
In her upcoming memoir ‘The Woman in Me’, the pop icon reveals that when she dated Justin Timberlake she became pregnant with his baby but had an abortion.
Justin and Britney dated between 1999 and 2002. She said she felt Justin was the love of her life when they were together, and that around late 2000 she learned she was pregnant.
Britney noted that she was raised not to get an abortion but due to unavoidable circumstances, she was forced to terminate her pregnancy.
The pop singer said that while she wanted to have Justin’s baby, she was “conflicted” and after some difficult, emotional discussions, they both agreed getting an abortion was the right decision.
“It was a surprise, but for me, it 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,” Spears, now 41, writes of the pregnancy in the book.
“But Justin definitely wasn’t happy about the pregnancy. He said we weren’t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young,” she added.
Both Britney and Justin were around 19 at the time when she got pregnant for him.
“If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it. And yet Justin was so sure that he didn’t want to be a father,” Britney Spears disclosed in her upcoming book.
“To this day, it’s one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life,” Spears writes of her experience undergoing the abortion.
After Spears and Timberlake split in 2002, she went on to become a mother, welcoming two sons — Sean Preston, 18, and Jayden James, 17 — with her second husband, Kevin Federline.
Spears will release her much-anticipated memoir on October 24, 2023.
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