above, Brit with Reggie, who "stole" her virginity at 14
Britney buys goldfish yesterday
The new issue of US Weekly has a cover story all about Britney Spears’ tragic family history and invented personal history, including her paternal grandmother’s suicide at the age of 31. Britney’s grandmother died well before she was born, committing suicide in 1966 at the grave of a newborn son who had died eight years prior. She left behind Britney’s dad, who was just in eighth grade, and three other children, two of which went on to become homeless as adults.
The article maintains that Britney also wasn’t a virgin when she said she was at 17, famously claiming that she would “stay virgin until married.” At that point she had already been sexually active for at least three years, having bedded her first boyfriend when she was 14:
But lawyer Eric Ervin, who worked with Spears as a teenager, tells Us Weekly in its new cover story that the “virgin” image Spears portrayed was, in his words, a “PR blitz.” In fact, Us reports in its new issue that Spears lost her virginity at 14 to boyfriend Reg Jones, and that she and Justin Timberlake were intimate from the beginning.
Us has learned that Spears’ paternal grandmother, Emma Jean Spears, in June 1966 committed suicide at age 31. Britney’s grandmother, who suffered from depression, shot herself in the chest with a shotgun at the grave of her infant son who had died eight years earlier just three days after being born.
A local newspaper article obtained by Us reported at the time: “The shotgun had been pressed against the woman’s chest and she apparently pulled the trigger with a toe of the right foot from which a shoe had been removed.” The newspaper reported that Emma Jean had attempted suicide three times before.
Emma Jean Spears left behind four other children, including Britney’s father, Jamie Spears, then an eighth grader. Two of Jamie Spears’ brothers ended up with criminal records and homeless.
Britney was with her first boyfriend Reg Jones for three years, and they broke up after they could no longer maintain a long distance relationship once she started touring. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard that her “virgin” claim was untrue.
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