Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American pop music singer, songwriter, dancer, actress and author. Her debut album ...Baby One More Time, released in January 1999, propelled her to international stardom. It spawned its five singles, including "...Baby One More Time", which topped the Billboard Hot 100. She released her second studio album Oops!... I Did It Again in May of 2000 with similar success. Her third album Britney was released in November 2001, followed by the release of her fourth album In The Zone in November 2003. The album's breakout single "Toxic" was an international success and has won Spears her first ever Grammy Award. The collection Greatest Hits: My Prerogative was released in November 2004 followed by a remix album B in the Mix: The Remixes a year later and a brief career break. Her fifth album Blackout was released worldwide in October 2007, with the lead single "Gimme More" earning success at worldwide charts.
Spears has sold over 83 million records worldwide according to Zomba Label Group.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) ranks her as the eighth best-
Spears's personal life has gained much attention from the media as a result of her stardom. In particular, her marriage to Kevin Federline in 2004. She gave birth to her first child Sean Preston in 2005, and to her second child, Jayden James in 2006. Her divorce of Federline in November of the same year was highly publicized, as was the legal battle for the custody of their two sons. Throughout 2007, Spears has been the subject of media scrutiny due to a series of controversial behavior in public
Childhood and discovery
Britney Spears was born in McComb, Mississippi. She was raised in Kentwood, Louisiana
as a Southern Baptist by parents James Parnell Spears, a building contractor, and
Lynne Irene Bridges, a former grade school teacher. Spears's brother Bryan works
as a manager for the Spears family interests and her sister Jamie Lynn is an actress
and singer. Her maternal grandmother Lillian Woolmore was an English war-
Spears was an accomplished gymnast, attending gymnastics classes until age nine and
competing in state-
In 1997, Spears briefly joined the all-
Music career
Spears's debut single "...Baby One More Time", released in the end of 1998 became
an instant international success. It peaked at number one on the Billboard's Hot
100 and has earned nine million sales worldwide, and was ranked 25th on Rolling Stone
and MTV's "100 Greatest Pop Songs of all time". The music video accompanying the
song featured Spears dressed in a schoolgirl uniform.The album of the same title
was released in January 1999, reaching number one on the Billboard 200...Baby One
More Time was certified Diamond, with 25 million copies sold worldwide. The album
received mixed reviews. All Music Guide gave it 4 out of 5 stars, stating that the
album "has the same blend of infectious, rap-
Following the success of her previous album, Spears released the album Oops!... I
Did It Again, which debuted at number one in the U.S., selling 1,319,193 units during
its first week of sales, breaking the SoundScan record for the highest sales in its
debut week by any solo artist. The RIAA awarded the album with a Diamond certification
with 10 million copies sold in the U.S. and 20 million copies sold worldwide. Concerning
both musical content and sales, the album was very similar to Spears's debut, although
it fared better with critics. All Music Guide once again gave it 4 out of 5 stars,
saying that the album "has the same combination of sweetly sentimental ballads and
endearingly gaudy dance-
Spears's success had made her notable in the music industry as well as popular culture.
In early 2001, she caught the attention of Pepsi who gave Spears a multi-
Spears endorsed an Elizabeth Arden fragrance, "Curious", for which she earned a reported $12 million. After one year of sales, the product netted more than $100 million, and was named the best selling perfume of 2004. Following the success of "Curious", Spears released her next Elizabeth Arden fragrance, "Fantasy", in September 2005, with equal success. She launched "Curious: In Control" in April 2006, closely followed by the release of another perfume, "Midnight Fantasy" in December. Spears's newest Elizabeth Arden fragrance, "Believe", was released in September 2007
Personal life
After the release of her Sometimes video, and the Rolling Stone cover of April 1999,
which featured Spears in a skimpy outfit lying on a bed, speculation was triggered
that the 17-
Since 1999, Spears and Timberlake were linked as a romantic couple, being part of the same record label, they had to share several interviews and photo shoots and joined publicity, as well as being on tour together. Though at first Spears would deny the relationship, and Timberlake wouldn't comment on it, in 2000 they came out as a couple, and several pictures were released where they would be seen kissing.
2002–2004
In early 2002, Spears's four-
Spears married childhood friend Jason Allen Alexander on 3 January 2004, at The Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas.The marriage lasted 55 hours, ending with an annulment granted on 5 January, which stated that Spears "lacked understanding of her actions to the extent that she was incapable of agreeing to marriage because before entering into the marriage the Plaintiff and Defendant did not know each others' likes and dislikes, each others' desires to have or not have children, and each other's desires as to State of residency."
In a tell-
2004–2006 Marriage, children and divorce
In July 2004, Spears announced her engagement to Kevin Federline, three months after
they met. Federline had very recently been in a relationship with actress Shar Jackson,
who was eight months pregnant with his second child. These initial stages were chronicled
in Spears's first reality show Britney & Kevin: Chaotic, which aired on UPN in May
and June 2005. On the night of September 18, Spears married Federline in a surprise,
non-
A few months after giving birth to Sean, speculation emerged about Spears being pregnant for a second time. In May 2006, she announced her second pregnancy with an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman. She also appeared on Dateline the next month to discuss tabloid rumors about an impending divorce, and motherhood. She addressed an incident which occurred in February 2006 when photos revealed her driving with her son unrestrained in her lap, explaining, "I see a bunch of photographers and I’m scared and I want to get out of the situation... They’re coming up on the sides of the car which is a scary situation for me... so I get my baby out of the car and I go home." The month following the televised interview, Spears posed nude for the August 2006 cover of Harper's Bazaar. In the accompanying interview, Spears stated that she is not ready to retire from performing. Just two days before Sean's first birthday, Spears gave birth to her second son, Jayden James Federline, on September 12, 2006 in Los Angeles.
Spears filed for divorce from Federline on November 7, 2006, citing irreconcilable differences and asking for both physical and legal custody of their two children, with visitation rights for Federline. The following day, Federline filed a response to Spears's divorce petition, seeking physical and legal custody of their children. Laura Wasser was hired to represent Spears in the case.However, in September 2007, Wasser announced that she would no longer be working for Spears. Instead, Spears is now represented by both Melvin Goldsman and Marci Levine. According to a representative for Federline's lawyer, the divorce filing "caught Kevin totally by surprise". On March 2007, Spears and Federline reached a settlement, that "All parties signed a global settlement agreement on all issues concerning their marriage and custody of their two children," said Michael Sands, a spokesperson for Federline's lawyer. Although the divorce seemed imminent, it was not finalized because the papers were never signed by a judge. Their marriage was officially over on July 30, 2007, with Spears's attorney stating "They are divorced. Everything is finalized."
Personal struggles
In January 2007, Spears's aunt, Sandra Bridges Covington, with whom she had been
very close, died of breast cancer. She then stayed in an off-
In September 2007, the official findings in Spears's custody battle were announced
by the court. She was ordered to undergo random drug and alcohol testings and to
attend parenting counseling. Spears and Federline continued to share joint custody
of their two children on a conditional basis. A few days later, she was officially
charged with misdemeanor hit-
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Times are changing, but everyone still wants to be beautiful. Every woman wants to
look young and striking. Men just like women are also taking care of themselves.
That’s why everyone is buying cosmetics. All of us are using more or less make-
So, it’s the right time to have discussion about natural cosmetics. Word “cosmetics” includes skin, hair, nails and teeth care products. Nowadays cosmetics industry is using term “natural”, but is this “natural” really natural, safe and useful for us?
Let’s make one simple experiment. Take some of your cosmetics which are called “natural” and read place where ingredients are declared. Most likely you will find a lot of interesting and mysterious chemical words. How can it be so if product is natural?
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nice advertisement for manufacturing company. In fact they also include a multitude
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In our daily life there are tens of thousands of synthetic chemicals.
Fragrance
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from both male and female civet cats and musk comes from male musk oxen. Both pheromones
are used to mark territory and to attract the attention of the opposite sex. Human
urine has been found to contain a substance with a strong musk-
Men's urine contains twice as much of this substance as women's urine. The substance
smells like a scent that women pay particular attention to during ovulation. There's
a fatty acid in women's vaginal fluids that is similar to the sex attracting substances
of other mammals.
A perfume's scent changes as time goes by. The reason is that certain
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2) "The Heart Scent"
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Homemade health and beauty products
Recipe, instructions and ingredients for homemade soap, sunburn relief, mouthwash, toothpaste and beauty powders.
It’s fun to make your own lotions, powders, bubble bath and facial preparations. Not only can you experiment with various formulas until you perfect one just to your liking, you can also choose your own beautiful jars and decanters. Discount stores are full of uniquely shaped bottles and other containers for storing your new creations. You can label the potions by printing cute stickers from your home printer or purchasing blank adhesive labels for writing.
You can get recipes for bath and body products online or in library books, or rework some of these to suit your taste. Here’s a few to get you started:
Soap:
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Mix and simmer 1 cup of soap flakes, 1 tablespoon of glycerin and a quart of water until the flakes are dissolved. Pour into a jar and let cool. Adjust the consistency of the soap by adding more or less water. Add essential oils or soap fragrances, found at craft stores.
You can make soap with glycerin which is found in cakes at craft stores and melted in a pot. Add 8 to 10 drops of essential oils to the melted glycerin, a drop or two of food colouring, then pour into moulds.
Powder:
Arrowroot powder works great to give a feeling of dryness. Sprinkle essential oils into arrowroot powder. Mix well and allow to dry for a couple of days, covered. Mix again and put the powder through a flour sifter to break up any lumps.
A cup of cornstarch, four tablespoons each of arrowroot powder and baking soda is mixed together to make a very nice powder. If you want scent, add essential oils, let dry and sift.
Mouthwash:
Boil a cup of water. Remove from heat and add a teaspoon each of ground cinnamon and parsley, along with a whole clove. Let the ingredients sit in the hot water for 15 minutes. Remove and strain, add a teaspoon of peppermint extract. Other extracts can be used instead of peppermint.
Toothpaste:
Mix one-
Sunburn Relief:
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How to get rid of cellulite -
Do you want to get rid of cellulite? Follow this program and no longer worry about unsightly, lumpy cellulite.
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Now, fitness researchers have jumped on this bandwagon. They’ve come up with a fairly simple exercise program that they say will get rid of cellulite. But there’s one difference between their cure and the ones you’ll see in magazine ads: The fitness experts aren’t trying to sell you anything.
What is cellulite, anyway?
It’s nothing but regular, old fat. In areas of your body where you have a high proportion of fat to muscle (like women’s thighs, hips, and buttocks), a lot of the fat is trapped between the muscle and the skin and begins to look lumpy. The fibrous or connective tissue that holds your muscles, fat, and skin together is what you are seeing when you see the lumpy, pocked look of cellulite. Some women have more fibrous or connective tissue than others, making the ‘cottage cheese’ look of cellulite more pronounced. Cellulite can worsen with age, too, because you tend to lose muscle as you get older, causing your body to have a higher proportion of fat to muscle.
So what’s the cure for cellulite?
Well, it’s not a pill, or a cream, or a rubber garment that you squeeze on over your body. It’s a simple, easy exercise program.
A group of 23 women that were enrolled in a two-
The women in the study exercised for thirty minutes, three times a week, for the two months required. At the end of the program, all of the women in the study had lost cellulite and expressed satisfaction with the exercise program. In fact, 73% of the women experienced ‘a lot less cellulite’ on their hips, thighs, and buttocks. The age and fitness levels of the women experiencing ‘a lot less cellulite’ again varied greatly.
The study was conducted three more times, each time following the same program and length of study, and each time there was a significant loss of cellulite in each of the women in the study.
Here’s the program that they followed:
1. 15 minutes of aerobic exercise should be done: i.e, walking on the treadmill,
riding a bicycle or using a stepper. Always do a 2-
2. Do 15 minutes of strength exercises or weight training at a weight that fatigues the muscle within ten repetitions. Start out with light weights, then as the program goes on, raise the weight to a higher level.
Do ten repetitions of each exercise for the targeted muscle. If, for example, your
thighs are the part of your body that is lumpy with cellulite, you should use an
exercise specifically designed for thighs, such as leg lifts or side-
If you want to rid your buttocks of cellulite, do lunges, or squats. Adding one to five pound weights to your ankles, holding light weights at your side, or working out on a weight machine is suggested, though you can start the program by doing the exercises without added weights. The people in the study, however, all had much better results when they used hand or ankle weights or exercised on weight machines, as opposed to doing the exercises without the added weights.
3. Stretch out the muscle for 20 seconds after each set of 10 repetitions of the exercise. This is a very important part of the exercise program. Stretching out the muscle after the exercises helps to increase the length and flexibility of the muscle, and this will help to increase your strength. The more strength that you have, the easier the exercises become, and the more muscle you build. The more muscle you build, the less cellulite you will have.
And that’s it. It’s not a miracle cure for cellulite, but it is a cure nonetheless. It requires a little work and dedication, but the results will be worth it. The women who participated in the studies all expressed satisfaction with the amount of cellulite that they lost during the two months of the program. Fitness experts believe that you will also be pleased with the smoother thighs, hips and buttocks that you will have if you follow this program. And if you continue this program three times a week, your cellulite may not ever come back.
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