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Spears also released her fourth album that year titled In The Zone , which featured the hits 'Toxic' and 'Me Against the Music', her collaboration with the Material Girl. To date, it remains her only Grammy despite being nominated eight times.

Red flags first appeared in January when it seemed the pressures of fame was getting to Spears. The singer shocked fans when she married childhood friend Jason Alexander at am inside the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas after a long night of partying.

Let's go get married, just for the hell of it. However, the marriage was annulled after just 55 hours with Spears' legal team arguing she "lacked understanding of her actions, to the extent that she was incapable of agreeing to the marriage". In July , six months after her annulment, Spears met backup dancer and father-of-two Kevin Federline at a nightclub in LA. They got engaged after two months of dating and then surprised family, friends and fans when they married just weeks later.

Our eyes met and that was it. We just hit it off right away," Federline would later tell People. Everything just seemed so right. I didn't see it as too fast or too slow. Spears' career appeared to take a nosedive as the couple's romance continued at lightning speed.

In , they welcomed their first son, Sean Preston, who was born on September One year later, on September 2, , they welcomed another son, Jayden James. Only two months after giving birth to their second child, Spears filed for divorce from Federline, citing irreconcilable differences.

In February , Spears entered a rehab facility in Antigua, only to abruptly check herself out after one day. She suffered a very public breakdown when she returned to LA, shaving off all her hair at a salon while in full view of photographers. Despite her private turmoil, she still released her fifth album, Blackout — her only album that didn't hit number one.

But her big comeback was a disaster, with Spears mocked for appearing confused on stage and lip-syncing parts of her song 'Gimme More'. I've done that for the past 13 years," she wrote in a July 18 Instagram post. Will Spears ever perform on stage again?

Questions about her career still linger, but if she does, her loyal fans surely will be there. Here are the biggest revelations. More: Will Britney Spears' dramatic testimony affect other cases, laws on conservatorship? The single " Baby One More Time" and its schoolgirl-themed video catapulted the thenyear-old into instant stardom in The knee-high boots, black skirt, a white button-down shirt tied to show your midsection, a gray cardigan and, of course, braided pigtails adorned with pink pom-poms became a much-copied look that Halloween and for years to come.

Spears' debut album of the same name, released on Jan. Baby One More Time" remains her biggest hit ever, spending 32 weeks on the Billboard Hot chart and becoming the epitome of pop music. Two years later, on Jan. Blige and Nelly. The show started with a back-and-forth between the boy band and the rock band. Spears hit the scene for "Walk This Way" in a jersey-style midriff top and matching low-cut flare-leg pants while she sang verses from Aerosmith's song, though she didn't get to sing any of her own hits.

Months later, Britney made a sssstatement at the MTV Video Music Awards with her daring performance of "I'm a Slave 4 U," where she danced and sang with a white python draped around her neck. Her performance of "Slave 4 U," from Spears' self-titled third album, was the third time she performed at the VMAs, previously hitting the stage in and She honed her skills from an early age, performing in local talent competitions and recitals.

In , she told Variety that she traveled an hour to take dance lessons as a kid and studied at the Off-Broadway Dance Center in New York City — which helped prepare her for touring the globe as a teen idol. In recent years, she's shown off her gymnastic skills both onstage and on social media, posting Instagram videos of her intense workouts and gravity-defying routines. In , Spears told Rolling Stone that she started singing into a hairbrush at just 2 years old, but she made her real debut singing "What Child Is This" at her kindergarten graduation.

She was 8 years old at her first audition, so the casting directors told her to continue studying acting, singing, and dancing. She eventually made her triumphant return to the teen variety show in The two formed a close friendship in later years, even co-hosting a New Year's Eve party in And in , Spears told a fan on Twitter that she'd want Portman to play her in the movie version of her life.

Spears has said that Janet Jackson and Whitney Houston were some of her early musical icons. The first audition tape that landed her a deal with Jive Records was a performance of "I Have Nothing" by Houston, and she told Variety in that she "really admired" both her and Jackson.

But pop music wasn't her initial direction — in fact, she told Rolling Stone in that she envisioned herself singing "Sheryl Crow music, but younger — more adult contemporary. In the late s, pop groups were all the rage, but few fans probably remember that Spears herself started out in the girl band Innosense. According to The New York Times, the Orlando-based group was meant to be "an American version of the Spice Girls," but Spears had big solo aspirations and left to carve out her own career.

She might have been on her way to pop superstardom, but even at 17, Spears always knew she wanted to start a family. The "Toxic" singer finally got to flex her acting chops on the big screen in 's "Crossroads. According to The Guardian, the original working title for the film was "Not a Girl," inspired by the singer's ballad "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" which appeared in the film and on her third album, "Britney.

When The Telegraph asked Spears about her biggest career regrets in , she looked "suddenly outraged" and jokingly shouted, "No! I like Crossroads! F you! Spears also paid homage to the film in her music video for " I Wanna Go ," in which a film marquee advertising "Crossroads 2: Cross Harder" can be seen in the background. In , after Saldana praised Spears and her acting abilities in an interview with Andy Cohen, the singer tweeted a GIF from the film, thanking the actress for the kind words and adding, "Truly the sweetest … Nothing but great memories of working w u.

Crossroads pt 2? According to Entertainment Weekly, the star landed a development deal with the studio behind "Dawson's Creek. In a interview with Rolling Stone , she also said that producers came calling for a role in "Grease 3. Ryan Gosling ultimately starred alongside Rachel McAdams in the film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' tragic love story, but according to Entertainment Tonight , Spears auditioned to play Allie.

Some fans might not remember that Spears had her own reality show with then-husband Kevin Federline in That was probably the worst thing I've done in my career.