After Britney Spears’ breakdown circa 2008-09, she took some time away from the spotlight, and then she gradually returned – some new music, some tightly managed tours, and then the Las Vegas residency. The justification at the time was that Britney likes to work, that working and dancing helps her stay healthy, that as long as everything around her is steadily managed, she likes the atmosphere and she loves performing, no matter what. I’ve always had my doubts about that, quite honestly. I think for years now, Britney prefers one-on-one interaction, and she prefers her life out of the spotlight entirely. She doesn’t want to be on a stage anymore, at least that’s my feeling.
Britney walked the red carpet at the Annual Daytime Beauty Awards in LA with her boyfriend Sam Asghari on Friday. She’s been brunette for weeks now and it’s not a great dye job – she would look much better with a Jennifer Aniston-esque caramel bronde. But that’s not the point! The point is that Britney looks like a hostage in many of the photos from the event. Apparently, she was not happy to be there and she walked off the carpet very quickly:
Britney Spears abruptly exited a red carpet appearance ahead of her ‘fireworks court battle’ with her father Jamie over her concervatorship. The 37-year-old pop megastar was there to support her handsome 25-year-old boyfriend Sam Asghari at The 2nd Annual Daytime Beauty Awards in Los Angeles on Friday but left within seconds.
She posed on the red carpet for less than a minute before telling her publicist ‘I just want to go’ and walking straight back to their SUV. The Toxic hitmaker looked visibly uncomfortable during her brief time on the red carpet as she kept in constant communication with her publicist. Britney attempted to put on a brave face as she joined her hunky Iranian model beau who was being honored with Outstanding Achievement in Fitness.
This is what I mean – for years now, even when Britney is on stage, allegedly doing the thing she loves so much, she just seems uncomfortable. I think she’s just over it and she’s been over it for years. Yes, you could make the argument that the recent drama with her father/conservatorship is to blame for her discomfort on the carpet, but doesn’t it just feel like… Britney wants to go away and be a private person now?
As for Britney’s conservatorship… pretty much as soon as the investigation into Jamie’s alleged assault of his grandson was over and no charges were brought, Jamie went to court to be reinstated as Britney’s conservator. The court agreed. What’s weird is that a source told People Magazine that Britney and Jamie “are still not speaking after the Sean incident” and “Britney is still upset about it.” I’m still upset about it too. I’m upset about ALL of this.
Photos courtesy of WENN and WENN/Avalon.
All you need to do is look at her hair to realize she’s still not well.
Exactly!! 😐
Yes, I feel so bad for her.
And face! We all know why her bf i$ with her…
I know. It’s so sad.
Her hair and makeup are the first to go when she’s unwell. She’s been wearing, what appears to be, slept in, three day old eye makeup in every single photo and video she posts. Including this event.
I was thinking the same thing. She is bipolar and suffers from debilitating anxiety. She is surrounded by leeches that use her for money. She is clearly unwell in these pictures, it is so sad and upsetting. Don’t even get me started on her gold digging, opportunistic boyfriend. If she was mentally stable and fully functioning, I would be like, huh whatever, it is a mutually beneficial relationship, he gets exposure, she gets a boytoy, but she isn’t well, and she is vulnerable and he is using her, it is disgusting.
There is nothing wrong with her hair. Some people have better things to do with their time and money than dare to appear in public without a magazine-perfect blowout.
It’s not that she looks horrible or anything, it’s that she doesn’t look like what she usually looks like when she’s well.
@Starkiller: Its not the styling of her hair. Britney has a pattern. When she dyes her hair dark, she’s not doing well mentally. She’s been doing this since 2008.
Brunette Britney is just as bad as English accent Britney. As soon as I saw the hair, I thought something bad was going on with her.
My God. How much money does her family need. Let her retire.
Right? They are all incredibly wealthy at this point. Just let Brittany live her life already..
I wonder, although she doesn’t enjoy being on stage, if it strangely is the structure and predictability she needs for her mental health. I also suffer from bipolar and I recognize that I tend to go off the rails when I have more free time. It makes me overthink and focus on negativity with the extremes of not leaving bed, or never going to bed to deal. She looks exhausted and my heart breaks for her.
You’re totally right, how much money do they need, but maybe that’s not all to it. I’m sure once you reach that point in fame and wealth you don’t even realize the extra millions dumped into your bank account because your quality of life, so to speak, is already pretty incredible.
Really, its all a just a reminder how mental health touches all facets of life. If someone with the resources anyone could ever dream of at her disposal still struggles, how do we as a nation with such inequality deal with access to help for so many others living with this struggle.
As a completely unqualified person looking in from the outside, I wonder if she would benefit from an activity schedule. She doesn’t need to work anymore, but she could build activities that she loves (like dance) into a more structured routine. It would be a way to keep the benefits from her current life without the anxiety inducing performing.
She would need to work with someone to make sure she was setting and meeting fulfilling goals for it to be able to have a stabilizing effect
Every time, she has her hair dark… It means trouble!! 😐 😕
Yep, next up is the Britsh accent.
I just wish her well… She’s just got that vacant look behind her eyes. There used to be so much light there.
Oh Britney Jean. She is looking like she did during the Sam Lufti days. I hope she can find mental stability and peace some day.
I think the press and the environment were too much for here at this specific event. She is used to her bubble of celebrity friends and red carpets. It’s not one of the higher tiered events and it was something for her boyfriends line of work. She tried, hated the vibe and press that was there and bounced. Her anxiety must have rocked her as she arrived and saw how different it must have been.
I think you are right, she used to be a top-tier entertainer that was on the red carpet with other top tier people ar major events… whatever this event was, it looked pretty low rent in comparison. She must’ve been freaked out to realize it after the “boyfriend” had already put her on the spot for pix.
I agree, she gave it a try, probably to support him, which was nice, but it was too much for her so she bolted–I think she did the right thing rather than submit to another hour or more of scrutiny. She probably knew she couldn’t handle all of that and she cut it short. I would have done the same thing if it didn’t feel right to me. However, it would have been better for her to skip the event altogether rather than bolt like she did. That’s telling more about her than she probably wants to tell.
The color of the hair isn’t the issue. It’s the horrible extensions. They’re so badly done, maintained, etc. When she went brunette she should have had new ones put in. But looks like she took a box dye and just put it on top of her blonde hair/extensions.
I’m not sure she has much hair that’s not badly damaged from years of bleach and extensions. She’d benefit from just taking them all out for a while to let her hair grow and repair. If it’s too damaged, she’s got the money to get the best wigs. It’s win/ win. She’ll look great and her hair can recover.
Her hair has looked this gross for like a decade at this point. She has millions but money can’t fix it because she thinks it’s fine.
My sister and I strongly believe the look and care of her extensions and hair are correlated to her mental health. I know it’s mean. Remember this is cele-BITCHY.
Hate to say this but she looks rough. ROUGH.
It’s surprising to me that the court allowed her father to become her conservator again. Even if the allegations about her son were unfounded, there is clearly a toxic relationship there. The court should have kept her other temporary conservator and looked for someone else to be the permanent one. Poor Britney. She’s just trapped.
When you SEE the types of…how should I put this delicately…mendacious CHARACTERS…that occupy judgeships in this country… NOTHING surprises you….
I was really surprised too. Shouldn’t be, but i was, somehow. I feel like that poor woman will never escape the clutches of her greedy family
Poor woman, she does not look healthy.
I had a friend with servere mental illness and she had the same sort of look in her eyes when she was in terrible condition and about ready to spiral into psychosis.
Same thing with the vacant look and made up smile, like Britney has done for so long now.
Like a puppet with no soul.
I really hope B is getting help.
I wish she had a stylist or someone who could at least recommend that she brush her hair before leaving the house. Also, her teeth look very different. Idk. I always wonder what these two talk about when they’re together. It always seems like she’s a robot these days in interviews and having a normal conversation with her would be hard to do. None of the guys she has dated over the years have ever said a peep about her when they break up so I imagine there are firm NDA’s in place.
She doesn’t even look comfortable much less well in that picture. I wish her an environment where she could actually get & stay healthy. I just get the feeling that everyone around her with the exception of her children prop her up so they can maintain their own lifestyles.
I, too, have long felt like they just trot her out like a show pony to keep the money coming in. She has looked like she hates it for YEARS now. It’s gross and sad.
I think the brown is a big improvement over the bleached blonde, which really brought out the damage she’s done to her skin from sun and smoking. She’s obviously going through it, but I’m glad she vocalized what she needed (to get away from the event) and had people in her corner to make sure that happened.
I really wish they would select, at the very least, a temporary new conservator. There are serious questions about Jamie’s suitability, given that he and Britney aren’t speaking and the circumstances why. She seems like she’s in a really precarious place.
Is she never going to update her style? Those early 2000s bandage dresses are just not flattering anymore and they can’t be comfortable.
It’s so sad, she seems stuck in time to the fashion era before her marriage and children. That must be when her mental health problems begin to manifest, and she just hasn’t moved along with the rest of the world since then.
I think she’s mentally and/or emotionally stuck at a younger age and her clothing and style reflects that.
Her hair itself doesn’t look that bad to me. We are just so used to seeing Britney blonde that it’s jarring to see her with such dark hair. Britney’s face though…smh. She hasn’t looked good since she did something to her teeth a couple of years ago. Her teeth were perfect before so it’s just weird that she would get veneers or whatever.
I swear they modeled Ashley O from Black Mirror after Britney
I wish the extensions would just stop! She’d look cute with short hair. I don’t care what color!
Thank you for putting into words what I thought for years, that Britney doesn’t want to be in the spotlight anymore. She never had a choice until now, and I hope she can stop performing now if she wants to.
As for that red carpet, I don’t think she was forced to go. She posted on Instagram before going that she felt pretty and was enthusiastic. I think she got overwhelmed once she got there.
Let’s hope we don’t get to Pink Wig Stage with poor Britney again…:(
I’m not that much older than her, but I want to adopt her and take care of her. I hate seeing someone so obviously struggling. I felt the same way about Lindsay Lohan, but am glad to report she has a gig on Australia version of The Masked Singer and looks pretty healthy these days.
I hope she can get away from her father and others who seem preoccupied with the lifestyle she provides them and do what’s best for her.
I’ve never understood how her team expect the public to believe that being completely controlled by her father could be good for an adult woman’s mental health. I actually wonder to what extent a situation like that (lack of control over your life plus high pressure) would cause situational anxiety or depression. Honestly I think her situation is one that most people would find hard and my heart goes out to her.