Sixteen-years ago, American star Britney Spears shaved her hair surprising her fans with many wondering if she was well.

In 2007, the Grammy winner walked into Esther’s Haircutting Studio in Tarzana, California and asked for her then-brunette hair to be shaved off.

The salon’s owner, Esther Tognozzi, declined. In responds, Britney took matters into her own hands by grabbing a clipper and giving herself a buzzcut while paparazzi snapped photos through the windows.

According to an excerpt published by People magazine on Tuesday, October 17, 2023.

“I’d been eyeballed so much growing up. I’d been looked up and down, had people telling me what they thought of my body, since I was a teenager. Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of pushing back,” the pop star writes in her forthcoming memoir, “The Woman in Me,”

Britney, 41, notes that once her father, Jamie Spears, took control of her personal, medical and financial affairs in 2008, she no longer had a say in her day-to-day life.

“I was made to understand that those days were now over,” she shares. “I had to grow my hair out and get back into shape. I had to go to bed early and take whatever medication they told me to take.”

Days after cutting her hair, the “Toxic” singer was photographed attacking a photographer’s car with an umbrella.

The back-to-back incidents, which occurred while she was going through a divorce and custody battle with Kevin Federline, instantly made Britney a tabloid fixture.

But the following year, Jamie went to court and made himself his daughter’s legal guardian.

“The conservatorship stripped me of my womanhood, made me into a child,” Britney writes in her book, which hits stores on Oct. 24. “I became more of an entity than a person onstage. I had always felt music in my bones and my blood; they stole that from me.”

“The woman in me was pushed down for a long time,” she writes. “They wanted me to be wild onstage … and to be a robot the rest of the time.”

After Britney testified against her conservatorship in open court in 2021, a Los Angeles judge suspended Jamie, now 71, before terminating the arrangement altogether.