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 Following is a timeline of key
events in the life of Spears, now 39.
1992 - Cast in TV show "The Mickey Mouse Club"
with Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera and
Ryan Gosling.
1997 - Signs record contract at age 15.
1998 - Aged 16, she releases debut single "...
Baby One More Time," which tops the Billboard
Hot 100 charts for two weeks. In 1999, her debut
album of the same name tops the charts in 15
nations.
2000 - Second studio album "Oops!...I Did It
Again" breaks records. Spears confirms she is
dating Justin Timberlake.
2001 - Spears performs as a guest at the Super
Bowl halftime show, releases third album and
sings with a python over her shoulder as her
performances become increasingly raunchy.
2002 - Spears stars in her first movie,
"Crossroads." Her relationship with Timberlake
ends.
2003 - Spears kisses Madonna on stage at the MTV
Video Music Awards, causing a scandal. She
releases her 4th studio album.
2004 - Spears marries childhood friend Jason
Alexander in surprise ceremony in Las Vegas.
Marriage is annulled three days later. Nine
months later, she marries dancer Kevin Federline.
2005 - Son Sean Preston is born. Spears wins her
first and only Grammy award for "Toxic."
2006 - Second son Jayden James is born. Two
months later Spears files for divorce.
2007 - Spears enters and drops out of rehab
twice in a matter of days, shaves her head at a
salon in Los Angeles and goes back into rehab.
Pursued by paparazzi, her behavior grows
increasingly erratic. Spears loses custody of
her two sons, and releases fifth studio album.
She performs "Gimme More" at the MTV Video Music
Awards but appears dazed.
2008 - Spears is twice hospitalized under
psychiatric hold and is placed under a
court-ordered conservatorship in which her
father Jamie Spears and an attorney take control
of her personal and business affairs. The nature
of her mental illness is not disclosed. In
December, her comeback album "Circus" is
released and in 2009 she embarks on a world tour
to promote it.
2011 - Spears releases her 7th studio album and
embarks on another tour.
2012 - Spears joins the U.S. version of "The X
Factor" TV talent show as a judge.
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 2013 - Spears begins a two year residency in Las
Vegas and releases her 8th studio album. The
residency is later extended for another two
years.
20l6-2018 - Spears releases 9th studio album,
goes on the "Piece of Me" world tour, and
announces another Las Vegas residency for 2019.
She performs for the last time in public in
October 2018 at the Formula One Grand Prix in
Austin, Texas.
2019 - Spears announces an "indefinite work
hiatus" and cancels her planned Las Vegas
residency citing concern over the health of her
father. She enters a mental health facility
saying she is taking "a little me time." The #FreeBritney
movement is started by fans who believe Spears
is being held against her will under the
conservatorship. She appears before the Los
Angeles judge handling the conservatorship but
her testimony is sealed. The judge orders an
independent evaluation of the conservatorship.
August 2020 - An attorney for Spears asks for
the singer's father to be replaced as her
conservator. Jamie Spears calls the #FreeBritney
movement "a joke." Spears tells her Instagram
followers that she accidentally burned down her
home gym after leaving two candles alight.
February 2021 - The documentary "Framing Britney
Spears" is aired, bringing wider attention to
her career and the conservatorship. Timberlake
issues an apology to Spears for his part in the
media scrutiny she received when they were
dating. Spears says on her Instagram account
that she hasn't seen the entire documentary but
was "embarrassed by the light they put me in"
and cried for two weeks. An attorney for Jamie
Spears notes that the singer has never asked for
the conservatorship to be terminated.
April 2021 - Through her attorney, Spears asks
to personally address the court handling her
conservatorship but no reasons are given.
June 17, 2021 - Spears says on her Instagram
page that she "has no idea" whether she will
ever take the stage again and is "having fun
right now."
June 23, 2021 - Spears is scheduled to address
the court. She is expected to appear remotely.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; editing by Grant
McCool)
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