That September, Spears took the stage at the MTV Video Music Awards, opening the show with a lackluster performance of her new single “Gimme More” from her album Blackout. Days after buzzing her hair, she was photographed attacking a paparazzo’s car with an umbrella, an image that instantly went global. Spears - who, a month prior to shaving her head, wrote on her website that the “media has had a lot of fun exaggerating my every move” - quickly became a tabloid fixture. The comeback queen! From Britney Spears' tumultuous teenage romance with Justin Timberlake to her epic meltdown in 2007, check out the pop princess' drama-filled Us Weekly covers through the years. … I cannot save her from herself, nor can I commit her to any type of treatment program against her wishes and will.” “I cannot convince her in ANY way to love herself. “There’s just so much you can do to help a person,” Culotta wrote. The pop superstar’s longtime assistant, Felicia Culotta, wrote an email saying Spears’ family and friends were trying to get her help, but she wouldn’t hear of it. Britney took an umbrella and hit an empty car Feb 21, 2007.

Britney Spears gets crazy after desperatly trying to see her kids at Kevin Federline’s place in Tarzana, California. I’m tired of everybody touching me,” as Us Weekly reported at the time. When asked by an employee why she just shaved her hair off, Spears replied, “I don’t want anyone touching me. “Then she all of a sudden realized what she did.”Īfter leaving the salon, a newly bald Spears headed to the Body & Soul tattoo parlor in Sherman Oaks, California, where she got inked on her hip and her wrist. “The only emotions that she showed was when she said her mom was going to be mad that she was doing this to her hair and she got a little bit teary-eyed,” Tognozzi told Extra at the time. And by that time, she had covered her head with the hood of a sweatshirt.Īs for the new bald look, one fan who’s not terribly thrilled said, “It looks terrible.Britney Spears has gone through her fair share of highs and lows - click through to see the pop superstar's most iconic moments Police eventually arrived to control the crowd and help Spears’ bodyguards guide her into a waiting SUV. “She was screaming and flipping out from the pain and wiggling her body all around.” “She was a nightmare to deal with,” the woman told the magazine. She said Spears was “totally freaking out.” The woman said Spears “wasn’t making sense at all” and that it seemed like she wasn’t in a good place. The employee told US Magazine that Spears was agitated when she arrived at the tattoo parlor and that when someone asked her why she shaved her head, Spears said, “I don’t want anyone touching me. Us Weekly magazine reported that she also got a black, white and pink cross tattooed on her lower hipĪ parlor employee said Spears showed up unannounced and stayed for about 90 minutes, while dozens of fans, photographers and gawkers gathered outside. She was there to get a couple of tiny tattoos on her wrist, a pair of pink and red lips. US Magazine reported that Spears went into a hair parlor to get her head shaved and that when the hair stylist refused to shave her head, Spears grabbed the clippers and shaved it herself.Ī Los Angeles television station grabbed footage of her Friday night at a tattoo parlor in the San Fernando Valley.

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