I couldn’t shake the feeling that every time I had a conversation with my parents about money it felt as if I was asking for an allowance – only the allowance came from money I’d earned.
“More profoundly, the line between where I ended and where others began felt blurred in a way that I couldn’t articulate at the time,” she continues.
I’d grin and bear it, because staying silent – and thin – meant I would get hired again; getting hired again meant people would be proud of me and that I would have the money that was needed to keep the ship afloat.
In these situations, some kind of damage is invariably done – a stunting of the ability of an individual to grow and make the most basic of decisions, or practice good boundaries.
Spears’ case has received renewed attention in the wake of the New York Times Presents documentary Framing Britney Spears, which details the singer’s decade-plus conservatorship under her father.