Posts Tagged ‘through the storm’

OK! Cover Story: Britney’s Back!

September 10th, 2008

On Sept. 7, Britney Spears faced the world from the stage at MTV’s 2008 VMA awards, clear-eyed, fit and confident, one year after her disastrous performance at the 2007 awards show.

 

After beating out fierce competitors in all three of the categories she was nominated in (Best Female Video, Best Pop Video and Video of the Year) Britney not only captured her Moonmen, she proved to the world that she’s back.

 

But winning the acceptance and applause of her peers is only one of the battles Britney is waging.

Her next album, which OK! can exclusively reveal will be released by late December, has to be a monster hit to sustain her comeback, and all signs indicate that it will deliver.

 

“It’s my best work ever,” Britney proudly told OK!.

Even more important in Britney’s battle is her effort to win joint custody of her sons, Preston and Jayden, from her ex-husband Kevin Federline.

“Her goal is to regain joint custody of her sons as soon as her dad Jamie’s status as her conservator ends,” a Spears insider tells OK!.

But before then, Britney has some other planning to do — party planning that is! As the proud mom told OK! during our exclusive interview, she is organizing a joint affair for her sons to celebrate Jayden’s second birthday on Sept. 12 and Preston’s third birthday on Sept. 14, with the help of her father.

“I want to have a traditional party,” she told OK!. “I have some friends with kids who I am going to invite."

 

Her mom, Lynne Spears, has also been making headlines with her new book titled Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World. Although gossip blogs buzzed over supposed scandalous details in the memoir, the book is more about Lynne’s experience as a mother through Britney’s tough times, as the Associated Press reported.

 

“Regardless of what people might think, Britney isn’t upset about the book,” an insider tells OK!. “After a tough last year, Brit and Lynne have a wonderful relationship again.”

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For more on Britney’s fight to get her career back on track, her life with her sons and family and her upcoming album, check out the new issue of OK! on sale Thursday.

 

Lynne Spears’ Startling Tell-All

September 9th, 2008

As the mother of troubled pop star Britney Spears and teen mother Jamie Lynn Spears, Lynne Spears has had to overcome her share of parenting challenges.

 

In her new tell-all book about her life as the mother to famous children, Through the Storm, Lynne shares her story of the tough road she’s been down with her family, as well as her hopes for the future.

 

The Associated Press, which got an early look into the much buzzed about tell-all, to be published Sept. 16, reports today that the book includes stories from Britney’s singing and dancing childhood up through her meteoric rise and all the way to her recent pill-addled, head-shaving escapades.

Lynne details her feelings of powerlessness and a loss of control throughout Britney’s skyrocketing fame, marriages, children and ensuing highly publicized custody battles, as well as her struggle with drugs in her private life, says the AP. Lynne reveals that Sam Lufti, a constant presence in  Britney’s life at the time, said he was grinding up pills and adding them to Britney’s food.

 

The AP also reports that Lynne felt like she had been "punched in the stomach" upon learning Jamie Lynn was pregnant at 16.

 

After two trips to the hospital this year, Lynne writes that Britney was finally given the care she needed, and that it was a "turning point" for their family.

 

A turning point, for sure, if Britney’s glowing, fit and levelheaded apperance at MTV’s VMA awards is any indication of the care she’s been receiving with the help of her family.

 

For more on Lynne’s startling tell-all and for Britney’s shocking reaction, check out the new issue of OK! on sale Thursday!

 

 

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