Britney Spears.Photo: J. Merritt/Getty
Britney Spearsis looking back on her life-changing year.
Spears, 40, celebrated 2021 on Thursday with a video on herInstagramaccount showing a truckload of birds being freed from cages and flying into the air.
“SYMBOLIC of my year this year 👗👗👗👙👙👙 !!!!!,” she captioned the clip.
In November, an L.A. judgeterminated the conservatorshipSpears had been living under after 13 years.
Days after the termination, Spearstold her fansonInstagramthat she was feeling “grateful” for small moments of freedom in each day, including “being able to have the keys to my car, being able to be independent and feel like a woman and owning a ATM card, seeing cash for the first time, [and] being able to buy candles.”
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Still, the pop star insisted, “But I’m not here to be a victim. I lived with victims my whole life as a child, that’s why I got out of my house. And I worked for 20 years and worked my ass off,” adding, “honestly it still blows my mind every day I wake up how my family and the conservatorship were able to do what they did to me … it was demoralizing and degrading !”
Since her conservatorship was terminated, Spears hasspoken outabout how her family treated her over the past 13 years and has claimed she was subjected to conservatorship abuse. The “Circus” singer has specifically called out her father, Jamie, who denied wrongdoing and claimed to have been acting in his daughter’s best interests. Spears' sister,Jamie Lynn, and her mother, Lynne, have also denied wrongdoing.
Britney Spears.lester Cohen/Getty
Along with the end of her conservatorship, Spears marked another milestone this year: she also got engaged to her fiancé,Sam Asghari. The actor and personal trainer, 27,proposedto Spears in September after four years of dating.
Spears revealed the news onInstagram, where she posted a video of her new ring with the caption, “I can’t f—— believe it 💍💍💍💍💍💍❣️!!!!!!”
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“A very Merry Xmas 🎄@britneyspears❤️,” he captioned the photo.
source: people.com
