The pop icon will release her memoir, The Woman in Me, on October 24
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Britney Spears and In 2001
Britney Spears She shares a painful experience she kept secret for 20 years.
In which Upcoming notes The woman inside meThe 41-year-old pop icon revealed that when she dated Justin Timberlake, she became pregnant with his child but miscarried, PEOPLE confirms.
“It was a surprise, but to me, it wasn’t a tragedy. I loved Justin very much. I always expected that we would have a family together one day. This will be much sooner than I expected,” Spears wrote about the pregnancy in the book. “But Justin certainly wasn’t happy about the pregnancy. He said we were not ready to have a child in our lives, that we were too young.”
A rep for Timberlake did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
“If he had left it to me alone, I would never have done it,” she wrote in the book. “And yet, Justin was pretty sure he didn’t want to be a father.”
“To this day, it’s one of the most painful things I’ve ever gone through in my life,” Spears wrote of her miscarriage experience.
After Spears and Timberlake split in 2002, she became a mother, having two sons — Sean Preston, 18, and Jayden James, 17 — with her second husband, Kevin Federline.
Spears will release her long-awaited memoir on October 24 through Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
The warrants come nearly two years after Spears was released from the court-ordered conservatorship, which lasted for 13 years. The guardianship has been terminated In November 2021, after Spears resigned Passionate public testimony Back in court in June 2021.
Promising to reveal “for the first time her incredible journey (and) the power behind one of the greatest artists in pop music history,” according to a press release from Gallery Books, the singer’s memoir “highlights the enduring power of music and love — and the importance of a woman telling her story.” , on its own terms.
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