BRITNEY SPEARS

SHE began singing and performing at a very early age and appeared on the TV show Star Search at age 8.In 1993 and 1994, she appeared on Disney's The New Mickey Mouse Show, a variety show for kids with other future pop-stars such as Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake Her big break came in 1998 when she released her debut song "Baby One More Time" and it was a instant hit. She followed up with her debut album of the same name the following year to even greater success. It shot up to number one on the Billboard charts. She received two Grammy nominations for this album - Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (for "Baby One More Time")Her next album, released the following year, Oops, I Did It Again was another smash pushing her to the top of the pop-diva list. She received another two Grammy nominations for Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Pop Vocal Performance.In 2001, she also co-hosted the American Music Awards with LL Cool J and signed a multi-million dollar endorsement deal with Pepsi. The Britney album gave her two more Grammy nominations for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (for "Overprotected) and Pest Pop Album (for Britney). Once again a Grammy was not in her stars.she was nominated for the MTV Movie Awards for Best Dressed and Breakthrough Female Performance as well as Teen Choice Award nominations for Film - Choice Actress, Drama/Action Adventure and Film - Choice Chemistry (shared with Anson Mount).She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in November of 2003.She was briefly married in January 2004 (approximately 2 1/2 days) to childhood friend Jason Allen Alexander (no, not the guy from Seinfeld) as a spoof.She got married to Kevin Federline in September 2004, which at first seemed only to be a media stunt - but was for real. She later admitted that it was her who proposed to Fenderline.In February 2005, she won her first Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording (for "Toxic") from the album In The Zone. She also won a BMI Cable Award for writing the theme song from the TV show Zoey 101 (shared w/ Michael Corcoran). In addition she was also nominated for the 2005 Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Personality: Female.In April 2005 she announced that she is pregnant and will be having their first baby. The baby is due sometime in September. Federline already has two children with actress Shar Jackson - Kori (b. 2002) and Kaleb (b. 2004).She has her own line of perfume called "Curious" that she began selling in September 2004 and has sold millions of dollars worth of merchandise since its launch. She will be following this up with a new fragrance called "Fantasy" that will be on the shelves in September 2005.In February 2007, Britney shaves her head, goes into rehab, then goes home within a day. By the end of February she attached some photographers and their cars with her umbrella, and later that evening her mother drove her to Malibu's Promises rehabilitation facility.She has had the strong support of Kevin Federline during this time when she needs it most. She has only left the facility to go to an AA meeting and is hopefully on her way to recovery.