Britney Spears profile

Britney Spears, Singer

* Born: 2 December 1981
* Birthplace: Kentwood, Louisiana
* Best Known As: Pop superstar singer of ...Baby One More Time

Name at birth: Britney Jean Spears

Britney Spears was only 17 when she reached #1 on the U.S. pop music charts with her 1999 debut album ...Baby One More Time. Her catchy tunes and hubba-hubba physique made Spears one of America's biggest pop stars, and she became a near-constant presence on MTV, radio broadcasts and magazine covers around the world. Spears had an early head start on teen stardom: she was in the cast of the Disney Channel's The Mickey Mouse Club during its 1993 and 1994 seasons. (Future pop stars Christina Aguilera, and Justin Timberlake and J.C. Chasez of the band 'N Sync got their starts on the same show. Spears and Timberlake were romantically linked on and off from 2000-2003.) Spears's second album, Oops!...I Did It Again was released in May of 2000 and went gold in its first week. In 2003 she released her third album, In the Zone. She also starred in the 2002 teen road-trip film Crossroads. In that film the younger version of her character, Lucy, was played by her sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, the star of the cable TV comedy Zoey 101. Spears married Kevin Federline, a professional dancer, in 2004. Spears filed for divorce from Federline on 7 November 2006, citing irreconcilable differences.

Spears entered rehab in February of 2007 after a period of erratic behavior which included shaving her head at a local salon... Spears and Federline had two sons together: Sean Preston Federline (b. 14 September 2005) and Jayden James Federline (b. 12 September 2006). Before their marriage, Federline had fathered two children with Moesha star Shar Jackson... The wedding ceremony for Spears and Federline was held on 18 September 2004, but papers formalizing the wedding weren't filed until October 7th... After Spears filed for divorce, Federline was nicknamed "Fed-Ex" by the press... Spears married childhood friend Jason Alexander in an impromptu ceremony in the Little White Wedding Chapel on the Las Vegas Strip in the early morning of 3 January 2004. The couple agreed to an annulment later the same day. Alexander is no relation to Seinfeld star Jason Alexander... Spears was considered for the role of Daisy Duke in the 2005 movie The Dukes of Hazzard, but the role instead went to fellow pop star Jessica Simpson... Spears' middle name is often incorrectly reported to be "Jeau" rather than "Jean."