Britney: "I Know I've Been far from Perfect "

In a rambling typo-filled statement posted on her official website, Britney Spears claimed that she has grown "more mature" and "finally free" over the past few years. Yeah, we saw the photos!

In the apology-turned-thank-you note addressed to her fans, Spears indirectly took on several issues surrounding the pop star, and explained that she is "far from perfect." Shocker!

After taking aim at the media for "criticizing my every move," Brit promoted her upcoming CD, the same CD that was recently bashed by gossip queen Cindy Adams. Spears added, "I've been working so hard on this new album and I can't wait for you all to hear it and to go on tour again!"

Spears also referenced the recent closure of her biggest fansite, saying "I do understand all the reasons that went behind making that decision." The creator of the website claims that he's "not been happy with the way she's portraying herself."

UPDATE: Apparently, Brit's "handlers" got to her blog and fixed the typos... just as we published. Darn.



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61. OTHER THINGS BRITNEY WOULD WANT US TO DO ....
1. DON'T DRINK --- LEAVES MORE FOR HER
2. TURN YOUR HEAD AWAY WHEN THE MEDIA SHOWS HER CROTCH SHOTS .
3. I'VE MATURED -- TO THE POINT OF BEING ROTTEN
4. DON'T CRITICIZE MY EVERY MOVE -- THIS GOES BOUBLE WHEN I FALL DOWN DRUNK
5. I'M YOUNG AND FINALLY FREE -- SHE LOOKS 60 AND READY FOR RETIREMENT
6. MY KIDS ARE THE IMPORTANT THING IN MY LIFE NOW -- IN BETWEEN SHOT OF JACK dANIELS
7. I CAN'T WAIT FOR YOU TO HEAR MY NEW ALBUM -- WE CAN'T WAIT FOR YOU TO HEAR YOUR NEW ALBUM !
8. I'M FAR FROM PERFECT -- LIKE TRYING TO PISS AND HIT THE MOON
9. MY LIFE IS EXAGERATED --- WE LIKE TO THINK THERE IS MORE WE DON'T SEE ...
10 . I'M WORKING HARD -- ON PARTYING , COVERING UP LIES AND SAVING FACE .

Posted at 2:47PM on Jan 5th 2007 by kevinbgood621

62. Yep I agree with the person who called it narcissistic personality disorder. Almost impossible to treat, low chance of improvement. People, get used to it. This is how Britney is, and how she is always going to be. Either accept it or move on. She's got enough cash to protect her from hitting "bottom" where she might HAVE to get some help. She will always have hangers on to party with, good people to watch her kids, a decent roof over her head, and money to mop up her messes.
She just won't suffer enough pain to force a change.

Posted at 4:16PM on Jan 5th 2007 by Sparrow

63. Britney has been saying she is "free" to do what she wants and that she has more control of her life since the year 2003. The only way she will become "free" is when she gives up on "coming back" and gives up with the hype of being a pop star...then she will be free. Until then... Britney is a slave to her kids, a slave to her ex and slave to her label a slave to her fans and a slave to herself because she just can't relax.

Posted at 11:02AM on Jan 8th 2007 by Sarah

64. I just love how everyone comments as tho you actually KNOW her or any other celebirty and you are not being influenced by media to sell their magazines and stories.

Think about it for just ONE minute - would you buy their magazines if they was no gossipy sh*t in them.

Also If you went out without panties would there be a camera aimed at your crotch.

Holy grow up and people... none of you knows Jack!

Posted at 4:45PM on Jan 5th 2007 by us

65. I agreed with everyone that says this is a pathetic attempt...she is backpeddling and no one is buying what she is selling anymore.

I never bought an album of hers, but I never hated her, I was always to say "not interested, but she has a hot bod" or "not interested, but she has some catchy tunes" ( I remember I could not get Slave 4 U out of m head) But lately I am just sticking with "Not interested" and that is no "but" following it.

OH-And to the poster who said that he ridicule celbs for stuff that we let people in our lives get away with? I can pretty much tell you that if my friend made a career out of flashing her punani to cameras...I would be DONE with that bitch!

Posted at 4:48PM on Jan 5th 2007 by natalie

66. I agree with Sparrow. Britney's made enough money already that
if she has good accountants, it will last a long time.
She's young, immature, not exactly a Mensa club member, and seems
to be stuck in party mode. Too bad for her little ones.
She needs to get a grip for their sake.

Posted at 5:11PM on Jan 5th 2007 by Khrissy

67. YOU GO BRIT,.... IM BEHIND YOU 100%. NO YOUR NOT PERFECT, THE ONLY PERFECT PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD ARE THE HATERS WRITING NEGATIVE ABOUT YOU ON THIS SITE... THEY ARE THE OBLY ONES WHO NEVER MADE A MISTAKE, NEVER GOT A LITTLE WILD IN THEIR EARLY 20'S, NEVER DID ANYTHING WRONG IN THEIR LIVES... LISTEN ASS----- WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES... FRIGGIN GROW UP JEALOUS HATERS YESSS BRIT,,,,

Posted at 6:14PM on Jan 5th 2007 by WOW

68. Britney, ur problem is not ur x husbandur problem is that piece of sh*t Paris. she has no kids to lose and probably never will. give her up and get ur life together.

Posted at 7:06PM on Jan 5th 2007 by cathy sorrentino

69. Hey WOW---
Typing in all capitals does not make you smarter, louder or get your point across.

She is still, a twit. It's nice that you are trying to go against blatant common sense, though, E for effort. Oh, and by the way, she is no longer in her early twenties and when I went "wild" in them, I didn't have two crumbsnatchers and home and a pending divorce like she does.

Love,
A Hater (God, why can't people come up with a better term than that?)

Posted at 12:29AM on Jan 6th 2007 by natalie

70. #60 You are either a true fan &/or oblivious to the world. Celebrities are perceived as role models to their target market.... in Britney's case... it used to be the elementary-high school girls... now it seems she is targeting her market to the porno world. Flashing your watchamacallit with birthing scars and all is not something a normal person would do. One can only conclude that Britney has problems with alcohol or drugs or both to be capable of such antics. Other than skanky Paris, I know of no female considering such things. Unless of course.. you would.

Posted at 12:31AM on Jan 6th 2007 by Pat

71. I definitely think that Britney Spears album is going to flop. She is so anticipating this album..thinking that it is going to save her career and her image..I think not. Let me count the ways..
1.She is a dumb a$s..she stupidly fell in love with K-Fed's dumb a$s and had 2 kids with his a$s. Not only does he have 2 other kids with another woman and child support he has to pay..she willingly bought him a car and of course spent money on him. Obviously K-Fed is not dumb he wanted to be with Britney for what she could give him. He sucked her dry and now hes done with her and he gets HALF..duh! [I would have married her too!]
2.When she finally gathers up enough dignity to divorce his ass...She then thrashes any chance she had at regaining her status as a pop icon when she starts her party cherades and decided to go commando several times. [Not a sight I would want to see] Not to mention all of her fashion faux paus. Her head is completely filled with air..
3.Not to mention..we will never forget the scares Britney had with baby Sean..riding him on her lap while driving..then when pulled over she exclaimed, "I'm Country!!" What an idiot..Also almost droping him after her uncoordinated ass almost fell face first on a sidewalk in New york..I believe. Poor Sean..He is going to grow up seeing all of the near death experiences he had before he said his first words.

Basically Britneys album better be the best damn pop/R&B album I've heard in my life..or else there is no hope of me going to the store to get it..and I know I'm not the only one that feels that way. I dont hate Britney..I actually respect her despite all the air head stuff she has done. I actually think I am one of the few people eagerly waiting for her comeback but I have to be real and pull all her cards because she has done some dumb sh*t. :P

Posted at 1:26PM on Feb 5th 2007 by Yekz

72. Pat - No I dont and dont know anyone that does -err rather they havent told me.
Cause if they did no one would know - there are no cameras. Also wondering how you know that no one else goes out into public without panties on becaue THERE ARENT CAMERAS POISED AND READ TO TAKE PICTURES OF THEIR CROTCH to give you this information. You live in your little world how do you know what goes on in the rest. The celebrity population is a teeny tiny percentage of the overall population.

Lots of assumptions in your email - I am begging to think that gee you DO know Britney and sounds like you also know first hand what the rest of the people in the world do and dont do. You're good.!

Hey are you God?

Posted at 10:14AM on Jan 7th 2007 by me

73. Condemn her to hell then - i bet Britney is the ONLY divorced mom to do this - EVER !

Glass houses............

Posted at 3:17PM on Jan 6th 2007 by Judy

74. The true history of Britney Spears, and to the Britney fans who have been posting on some websites lately that she is worth $300 million. She is NOT worth $300 million. The following is the true history of her career, money and downfall. The most she ever had was about $150 million which Forbes magazine and some other publications talked about, and they probably pushed it up a bit for PR reasons. She has not put out a new CD in years and has not toured in some time. She has been spending a lot of it for the last few years, K-Fed (cars, recording his CD, crating his record company, Federline Records, etc), limos, houses, lawsuits, lawyers, managers etc.

She also lost the lawsuit that she filed against the ten insurance companies that she was trying to get payment from. She wanted them to pay her when she canceled in the middle of her last tour to cover the major losses. She ended up having to pay major amounts of money for damages, canceled arenas, promoters, investors etc. (in the millions). She was also loosing a lot of money on her last tour since about half of the arenas were about half full, a quarter about a quarter full, and only about a quarter of the shows were full. This compared to her first few tours where every arena was full at the height of her fame. If you don't remember go back and take a look at the records (and not the PR her publicists put out). She was also, already becoming unstable at that time. She did not show for two of the shows when the fans were already in their seats for the onyx tour. No reason was given to the fans, and they were understandably upset. Then she came off stage crying at some of the European shows because they were less than half full. Then she cancelled in the middle of the tour because of her knee. She also had her knee operated on in 1999. So that is two times her knee has been a problem for her tours. Since her shows are based on dancing and putting on a big show while she lip-synchs, that makes her knee a big problem to the record companies, promoters, and investors. They are not willing to back her at this time since she is so erratic and unprofessional from her track history, and especially at present. She made one movie that she starred in, Crossroads, and has not been in one since as a lead. In fact she has been turned down many times by Hollywood and has not gotten a starring role in over five years now, and won’t.

She was already in decline by the third CD “Britney” which sold less then half of what “BOMT” did within the same amount of time from its release. Her first CD “BOMT” sold about 11.5 million US when it came out. OIDIA sold about 7.5 million within the same amount of time from its release. Her third CD “Britney” sold about 3.5 million in the same amount of time from its release. Her fourth CD “ITZ” sold slightly above 2 million in the same amount of time from its release. Her “Best Hits CD” although not a studio CD, sold about 1 million in the same amount of time from its release. Not once did her statistics go up, it was a straight downward trend. If you look at it, she did her best when she had a clean and sweet image, on stage, on her CD’s, The more she pushes the sex/slut image, and now the trailer trash image, instead of the sweet girl image of the beginning of her career, the less CD’s she sells. She does not seem to understand this. She has now gone down to crotch shots, and a real dirty image in order to get attention and try to revive her career. That is a real shame since all she had to do at the beginning of her career is show up and be sweet. She sold millions, and millions loved her back then, she had integrity, or at least it looked like it back then. From a business point of view she should have not gone the way she did. It does not work and has ruined her career. She now has only a few fans that are left that are interested in her for skanky reasons, tabloid fodder, and partying, and not for the beautiful Pop Star image that she had some years ago that so many loved. In actuality, the Britney we are now seeing IS the real Britney. The industry is not there to put her together like they used to since she does not sell like she used too (not even close). She is now falling apart at the seams, and has been for some time: 55 hour marriages, marriage to K-Fed, child accidents, erratic behavior, canceled tours, child neglect, law suits, constant bad decisions, crazy partying, crotch shots on purpose (three different times), disrespecting her fans and the industry she is supposed to work in, psychiatric drugs while drinking alcohol, and drinking and driving (which can kill someone, including her) etc.

Her perfume is not doing well now because of her image. Check the latest figures. Even Elizabeth Arden made comments in one of their recent bulletins. They have been cutting back on it and only releasing smaller amounts. There are also rumors that Elizabeth Arden are thinking of suing her because she has not been keeping up her part of the deal, and has not done the amount of advertising she was supposed to do for them. She also has not kept up the “far better image” of herself that she had years ago which DOES help sell the products she backs. Her trailer trash image has done major harm to her businesses (perfume, CD’s, tours, any possible movie career, etc.). She IS a business and needs to act like it with her image. Her image is her business. Major magazines are not putting her on their covers all the time anymore like they used to, which paid her big money. Now she is only on the covers of the tabloids, which do not pay her at all. It also damages her career a lot, and her image, to be in the tabs all the time, and not in major paying magazines (who make her look good).

She should have done Playboy if she wanted to show the world her privates. They would have made her look good and paid her a lot of money Instead she did it for free to get attention which did a lot more damage to her image then any kind of “help” for her comeback. With the C-section showing and rashes further down (check the large images on the net, not the small ones where you can’t see); it looked really gross and desperate, and IS a turn off. And being with Hilton only made it worse. She does not have any professionalism to her tactics and it hurts her image and business a lot. Everyone looks at a train wreck, but that does not mean anyone is going to pay cash to buy it.

She gets involved in a lot of lawsuits (which she creates), and has bad business dealings a lot also. Her restaurant NYLA went broke. She was sued by NIKE some years back and lost. She was sued by a t-shirt company (the only one she won). She sued US magazine and lost and others she has been in. Suing, lawyers, and court cases cost a huge amount of money. She does not have a large income at this time. She has been spending far more in the last three years then she has brought in. If you check all of her divorce papers, other filings, and documents, she only has about $32 million left. She has gone from $150 million about four years ago down to $32 million. That is a loss of $118 million in four years. She is not acting smart, and I am sure a lot of people are taking her money all the time, not just K-Fed, since she is always partying and going crazy. When a star falls, it is not uncommon for everyone to take a part of the pie (their money). Look at Michael jackson, Elvis, and many others.

She may even loose her kids, which is up to the judge and not her fans or their opinions. I work in the legal profession and see how the courts and judges rule all the time. She does not know how to manage her money or kids and be a good and stable mother. The children came out of her; they instinctively know she is their mommy. A Nanny is not the biological mother. The images that the tabloids constantly print of her and her actions can be, and will be, used in court. And it will damage her greatly. In fact, the tabloids are doing her far more harm than any of her “past fans”, or “haters”, can do all together. The courts will not care about the “past fans”, or “haters”, opinions. But they will care very much about the pictures and films the tabs have shown which can be used in court. If she keeps going like this, she will also loose the rest of her money in a few more years (around five years or so).

The current Britney fans seem to only care about image (hair color, makeup, clothes, and partying all the time, etc.), and not substance (such as facts, or Britney’s kids, or professionalism for Britney’s business). And for the fans that keep saying Britney’s life is nobody’s business, you are wrong. She became famous because of us. She puts herself out there all the time and shows off her “supposed” personal life on purpose. She wants the attention. We can judge her anytime we want. There is no law against it. If no one ever judged then no one could ever correct a wrong or point out something destructive, or see the difference between right and wrong, good or bad. It is everyone’s right to judge. She is acting such a fool lately that many should judge her, and they do. She is a celebrity shoving her personal life in everyone’s face on purpose and in a gross and desperate way. She makes her money by selling us all her products. If we do not want to buy her products anymore because we don't like her anymore, or what she or her products stand for, then that is our right and we do not have to accept her or her tactics. We can say what we want, and judge her all we want. Just like Britney’s fans can have their say and judge her as fit or not doing anything wrong by neglecting her kids, etc.

And just because her kids are not your kids does not mean we can’t care about their well being when she is being such a flake about it. She parties almost every night from around 6 PM to 5 or 6 AM. She then has to sleep, probably 10 hours or so to get over the hangover. She also stated “herself” in a couple interviews that I saw of her some years back that she loves to sleep about 10 to 12 hours threw the day. Then we see her out in the afternoon shopping a lot without her kids. Then she goes back to partying all night. She is not spending much time at all with her kids. If you are a mother and truly love your babies then you instinctively want to be with them all the time because you love them. They are the most important of anything to a real mother. It is so funny how the current Britney fans always scream about how the rest of us should not judge, or don't have the right to judge, when they are far more judgmental then anyone else, and they judge everyone else that is not a Britney fan.

People that party all the time and do crazy things a lot are not professional and do not have their life in control. They are also not responsible and end up loosing a lot in life and loosing control of their lives eventually. These are the same people that don’t care about kids, such as Britney’s kids, and justify what Britney does so they can hope she will give them another CD. That is so sad that you would prefer a CD from her over her kids being raised properly by her, the actual biological mother, and her love. It seems that the current Britney fans are far more selfish then they are aware of. And by the way, she is looking more and more trailer trash everyday, she does not look beautiful. Check a bunch of her current pictures against the ones from years ago when she was doing great and still looked fresh and young. She really was happy back then and her smile showed it. Now her smile is hiding a lot of pain and misery. Just look deeper and you will see it there. The problem is that she has caused this all on her own, with her selfishness and stupid tactics. She has gone crazy and really needs psychiatric care. Britney now is literally someone completely different. This is not even the same person. Just like Justin said, he does not even know who she is now, and all the fans that have left, which is the vast majority, don’t know who this woman is now.
Britney left some time ago, Sad

Posted at 2:36AM on Jan 7th 2007 by anonymous

75. Whats the difference between Britney Spears and a constipated dog? Not a lot. They both grunt and groan and growl in an irritating manner and produce intermittent painful crap. That joke came out when she had a career. So what sort of joke is she now??? No class, no knickers, no respect.

Posted at 10:11AM on Jan 7th 2007 by Jake

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