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You gotta worry for this girl...
I will say tho I only say that going on what we know of her from her background.. maybe she has always wanted to do this?

American pop star Britney Spears has revealed her latest look - a completely shaven head.

She was spotted by fans and paparazzi in a Los Angeles tattoo parlour minus her trademark mane of blonde hair.
A tattoo artist at the Body and Soul parlour told KABC television that Ms Spears' was tattooed with "cute little lips on her wrist".
Ms Spears is reported to have recently checked in to an Antigua rehabilitation centre and checked out one day later.
Staff at the tattoo parlour said she appeared unannounced on Friday night and stayed 90 minutes while she was tattooed.
Afterwards she was bundled by her minders into a waiting SUV with her head completely covered by a hood.

Months of wild partying. And now Britney shears in public

Paul Harris in New York
Sunday February 18, 2007
The Observer

In a bizarre twist in the erratic career of America's former princess of pop, Britney Spears has sparked speculation she may be suffering some kind of breakdown after she shaved off her own hair in a shop window.

Spears turned up at a Los Angeles hairdressing salon late on Friday evening, but when staff apparently refused her request for such a dramatic cut, she picked up the electric clippers herself and, as onlookers gawped through the glass, sliced off her long brown hair.

Afterwards, the bald pop star strode into a nearby tattoo parlour in the LA suburb of Sherman Oaks. There, again as passers-by gathered, the 25-year-old had a pair of pink and red lips tattooed on her wrist and a cross on her hip.

As news of her actions began to spread, websites and cable news channels were buzzing with details - and online video - of Spears' appearance. Tattoo store employee Emily Wynne-Hughes told Usmagazine.com Britney had arrived agitated and, when asked why she had shaved her head, replied: 'I don't want anyone touching me. I'm tired of everybody touching me.' Hughes added: 'She wasn't making sense at all and you could tell she's not in a good place. After she left, we just looked around and said to each other, "We just saw a huge celebrity on the verge of a nervous breakdown".'

Spears has lived almost all her life in the harsh glare of the public eye. From Disney child star to teen pop idol to young mother, she has rarely been out of the spotlight that made her world- famous and her albums bestsellers.

But this weekend the cameras were on a different young woman. Not only her hair is gone. Gone too is the perfectly-toned physique of her videos and the fashionable outfits that inspired a generation of American youngsters. They have been replaced by an image of a pale shaven-headed woman, puffy-faced, and wearing a drab grey sweatshirt.

In a nation still agog at the death of reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith, many now fear Spears could follow her down that doomed road. It is a stunning turnaround for a woman who just a few months ago was still married with two children and plotting her comeback album that was set to relaunch her career.

But now the image of a bald, shaven Spears is the talk of America. The news has been given blanket coverage on papers, cable channels and gossip websites. 'Bald Britney Breakdown!' declared the influential Drudge website.

Los Angeles is long-used to the unusual shenanigans of its celebrity denizens, but few will ever have witnessed scenes as odd as those on Ventura Boulevard when a black SUV pulled up outside a closed hair-dressing salon just before 7pm. As staff were called to reopen the business Spears apparently wept inside her car, then went inside and asked to have her hair cut off. When staff refused to carry out the dramatic request, Spears picked up the electric shears herself. Beginning at the front of her head, she started shaving and her dyed black hair fell to the floor in long strands. At times she paused and looked in the mirror or at photographers gathered outside, then completed the task. She had gone from gorgeous pop idol to grim GI Jane.

But the night was not over. Spears next headed for a nearby tattoo parlour called Body and Soul. By this time fans, gawkers and paparazzi had gathered outside. The throng was so big police were called to control the crowd. In front of a phalanx of cameras Spears proceeded to get a tattoo on her wrist of a pair of lips. Then, trying to hide her lack of hair under a grey, hooded tracksuit top, she fought her way through the crowd, helped by police, and drove off in the direction of her home. 'We could see her in the mirror and her head is completely shaved. It looks terrible,' Spears fan Angelique Uram told a local TV station. The latest and most bizarre - but probably not the last - incident in the destruction of Spears' career and reputation was over.

Spears has struggled to make the transition to adult star, a path littered with far more failures than successes. At the same time, her personal life has collapsed. At 25 she is twice divorced and the mother of two children. Her marriage to her second husband, Keven Federline, broke up late last year.

Since the split Spears has embarked on binge of hardcore partying. With celebrity friends such as socialite Paris Hilton and actress Lindsay Lohan, her drunken exploits have been relentlessly chronicled. Along with Hilton, she made the cover of Newsweek in an issue headlined 'The Girls Gone Wild Effect'. That sentiment seemed especially true after a series of evenings out in which Spears was not wearing underwear, established beyond doubt in dozens of explicit pictures.

Last week one of Spears' most trusted former confidantes, Felicia Culotta, went public with her concerns for her old boss. Culotta spent most of the past 10 years as one of Spears' personal assistants and posted an email on a fan website warning that Spears was in the middle of a huge personal crisis. She also admitted she was powerless to help. 'I cannot save her from herself nor can I commit her to any type of treatment programme against her wishes,' Culotta wrote.

The media love to make more out of a "fall from grace" than is actually happening. In fact half the time they like to create that "fall from grace themselves".

If she wants to shear her hair, then fair play to her. I hope she likes it. Shame on the media for pretty much wanting to see her life fall apart.

the way its reported in Petalps extract does make it sound like shes on verge of some sort of breakdown. I hope that thats just them hyping it up, and that shes okay.

I'm not a fan of Britney, but you've kinda gotta feel for her somewhat. She obviously fell completely in love with Federline, decided it was gonna be forever, had 2 kids in quick succession and then her whole life fell apart. She's now got two young kids of look after, has realised that the love of her life is actually not the love of her life, and he (I think) is now after a huge amount of money in a divorce settlement. I suspect i'd start to go a bit nuts as well..........

lucky she doesnt have your chainsaw then.... :hide:

Yeah she is going through a tough time. I think that's usually amplified and made worse when the glare of the public is on you and the media virtually wants the breakdown to happen. Poor lass.

With you on that 1 Gav :ok:

She looks like one of the little aliens off men in black...

the girl is a mess, i smell an intervention...justin, help her :blink: :blink: :blink:

I'm going to be really cynical now, but I think this is largely another publicity stunt. She does have some problems and strain, but if that is the case why has she done something that obviously is going to attract loads of media attention and add to any strain she may be feeling?

She's either very stupid or just manipulative like every other "A-list" celeb.

It could be a publicity stunt, but without a doubt that girl needs help. I'm not a fan but she clearly is upset and mentally not together. What do people expect when people are thrown into the spotlight at such a young age? I hear her mother was a greedy. pushy woman who was obsessed with her daughter becoming famous. That must have put huge pressure on Britney in her young years, and despite having had her peak, she's only about 24 now. That woudl screw most up I reckon.

true - well we all know that if you have all the money you want, you don't have to work for anything therefore you get no satisfaction from anything - vicious circle!

I just want the schoolgirl britney back, the one I used to listen to on the school bus... :( :P

So true. When you can haev anything you want, you don't really enjoy it. Or so they say! I know EXACTLY what my money woudl be spent on if I was lucky enough to have megabucks. I guess when you have had it from a young age though, you dont; focus like that. I know she is messe dup but I still find it extreme and demented the way she handles matrimonial affairs! Bizarre how people can just get married to any old tw*t at the drop of a hat eh? . :wacko: roflmao I've never felt the need, and if I had that kind fo money I certainyl would NOT get married! roflmao

It's sad to her like this :(

As others have said, it's clear that she's not mentally together, and the fact that it's all happening in front of the whole world further adds to the situation. I really hope she manages to sort her life out soon, for her own good.

Well shaving her head certainly won't have helped her mental state because she will no doubt be interrogated like never before by the press :(

She needs my mental strength roflmao

I dont mind saying that when i was 14 or 15 years old i was in love with Britney. :wub: I just find it really sad now because she is a good person. :)

Weren't we all mate :wub:

Oops I did it again... - I would :P

Get well soon Britney. :wub:

Come to Desford soon Britney :wub:

Once your hair comes back, in the meantime a wig will do :P