In addition to being one of the most successful female recording artists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, Britney Spears has been famous (or infamous) for her struggles with mental health. In The Woman in Me, she finally gets to speak her own truth and her own experiences. Among other things, it allows the reader to get a better, fuller picture of both her experiences as a child star as well as her various struggles with mental health over the years. It’s thus a necessary corrective to the dominant media conversation around her career.