Britney Spears died Sunday night after the hairdryer she was using fell into a sink full of water at Circus Circus in Las Vegas. She was 27.
Spears’ death came after years of controversial behavior. Her 55-hour marriage to Jason Alexander shocked the public in 2003. In 2004, she married her former back up dancer Kevin Federline. The couple had two sons, Jayden and Sean Preston. Spears’ questionable parenting skills came to light when she was pulled over for driving with Sean in her lap. A long custody battle followed.
Spears first rose to fame in the late 1980s after being selected from a star search to appear in TV’s “The New Mickey Mouse Club” along with Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera. Timberlake became the star’s long time boyfriend and Spears even promised to save her virginity for him until the two could be married.
After “The New Mickey Mouse Club” was cancelled, Spears returned back home to Louisiana. It did not take long before she was itching to return back to show business. Soon after she made her transition into the music industry. In 1998, she dropped her first album “… Baby One More Time” which broke records for the youngest artist to have her first single hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles. “…Baby One More Time” is still the best selling album ever by a teenager.
“… Baby One More Time” was followed by the album “Oops I Did It Again” in 2000. Spears then headlined her first future film “Crossroads” in 2002.
That same year, Forbes Magazine named Spears the world’s most powerful celebrity. Billboard Magazine declared her the best selling female pop star ever in 2000. “Spears can never be called a flop,” the magazine explained. “She accomplished things no others did.”
Spears was born on December 2, 1980. She is survived by her parents Jamie and Lynn Spears, her sister Jamie Lynn, and her children Sean Preston (3) and Jayden (2).
Plans for a public memorial have not yet been determined.
By Yaritza Hernandez
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