The 41-year-old pop icon, Britney Spears discussed having an abortion while dating Justin Timberlake in her new memoir, The Woman in Me.
“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 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.”
The request for comment from PEOPLE was not immediately answered by a Timberlake representative.
She writes in the book: “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.”
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.
After Spears and Timberlake divorced in 2002, she gave birth to two kids with her second husband, Kevin Federline: Sean Preston, 18, and Jayden James, 17.
On October 24, Spears will publish her much-awaited memoir through Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster.
The memoir appears almost two years after Spears was freed from the 13-year-old conservatorship that had been imposed by order of the court.
The memoir appears almost two years after Spears was freed from the 13-year-old conservatorship that had been imposed by order of the court. After Spears passionately testified in court in June 2021, the conservatorship was lifted in November 2021.
The singer’s memoir “illuminates the enduring power of music and love — and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms,” according to a press release from Gallery Books. It promises to reveal “for the first time her incredible journey (and) strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history.”