{"id":111785,"date":"2023-10-18T04:56:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T04:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/10\/18\/britney-spears-writes-about-having-an-abortion-while-she-and-justin-timberlake-were-together\/"},"modified":"2023-10-18T04:56:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T04:56:50","slug":"britney-spears-writes-about-having-an-abortion-while-she-and-justin-timberlake-were-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/10\/18\/britney-spears-writes-about-having-an-abortion-while-she-and-justin-timberlake-were-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears writes about having an abortion while she and Justin Timberlake were together"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"article-text\">\n                        \n\n                        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Britney Spears reveals a personal experience she has kept private for two decades in her upcoming memoir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During her relationship with Justin Timberlake, Spears became pregnant by the singer and had an abortion, she writes in a book excerpt published by\u00a0People.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was a surprise, but for me, it wasn\u2019t 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\u2019d anticipated,\u201d Spears writes in her book, \u201cThe Woman in Me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut,\u201d she writes, \u201cJustin definitely wasn\u2019t happy about the pregnancy. He said we weren\u2019t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CNN has not yet been able to independently review \u201cThe Woman in Me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A representative for Timberlake did not respond to CNN\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ad Feedback<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the excerpt, Spears writes about how she felt conflicted at the time<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it,\u201d she writes. \u201cAnd yet Justin was so sure that he didn\u2019t want to be a father.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo this day, it\u2019s one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Timberlake and Spears dated from 1999 until 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spears later married dancer Kevin Federline and had two sons, Sean Preston, 18, and Jayden James, 17, prior to her and Federline divorcing in 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Timberlake married actress Jessica Biel in 2012 and the pair are the parents of two young sons, Silas and Phineas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Woman in Me\u201d publishes on Oct. 24.<\/p>\n\n \n                               <p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>      \n                <!-- Post Tags -->\n                \n\n                         \n                                             \n                    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britney Spears reveals a personal experience she has kept private for two decades in her upcoming memoir. During her relationship with Justin Timberlake, Spears became pregnant by the singer and had an abortion, she writes in a book excerpt published by\u00a0People. \u201cIt was a surprise, but for me, it wasn\u2019t a tragedy. 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