Originally Posted by epitome

She's actually not mildly retarded when she's not sabotaging her life.

The only reason we know Britney Spears today is because of a single choice she made in the beginning. ...Baby One More Time was supposed to be a cartoonish sci-fi video. She told her record label that sucked and that she wanted it to be like real life for a teenager. She explained how she saw the video being a school girl sitting in class waiting for the bell to ring... then she picked out her own wardrobe. Out came that video that introduced her to the world and started the worldwide and very public countdown to her 18th birthday.

She is known for shunning advice and doing things her own way which usually end up being the right way.

In fact, a lot of the things she is known for were her own ideas after telling her advisers no.

Then her bi-polar or drug abuse (nobody knows which) got in the way and she crashed and burned.

Now she's engaged to her agent of many years who has is own millions so isn't marrying her for the money, she has her kids which are by her side practically 24/7 and is happy as can be.