You didn’t see it on most of the fall preview round-ups, but the press has ample space for anything Spears and the AP has gotten a copy of Lynne Spears’ book Through the Storm well in advance of the September 16 laydown.
Spears presents herself as a loving, selfless (she gave up her job as a school teacher for her daughters’ sake) but increasingly powerless parent. After the jolting, but pleasant surprise of Britney Spears’ debut smash, Baby One More Time, Lynne Spears says she felt she was losing control when a 1999 Rolling Stone Magazine story featured a racy cover of the singer in panties and a bra.
Lynne Spears recalls feeling “shock and dismay” at seeing her daughter shave her head, at her brief marriages to childhood friend Jason Alexander and dancer-rapper Kevin Federline, and her highly-publicized custody battles over her two children. She also recalls feeling she had been “punched in the stomach” when she learned Jamie Lynn Spears was pregnant at age 16.
She praises Federline as a “caring daddy” and says Britney Spears is “an amazing mother,” but only when at her best. The bottom came in the past two years with Britney Spears’ increasingly disturbing public behavior and her drugged private life in her Malibu, Calif., house. Lynne Spears writes that she was distraught as then-manager Sam Lutfi told her he was grinding pills and putting them in Britney’s food, hoping to induce a coma that would enable doctors to cure her of all addictions.
People Magazine has followed with a short “exclusive interview” with Lynne Spears to remind readers (of) an excerpt from the book.
“I wanted the truth out in my own words for myself and my family,” Spears says. Britney hasn’t read it yet, but “Jamie Lynn loved the book. I started to cry because I told her, ‘I wanted so much for you to like it.’ And she got up and kissed me on the cheek and said, ‘Mama, thank you so much.'”
