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Attended Parklane Academy, a private school in McComb, Mississippi until October 1994. She was on the girls' basketball team.
Studied at NYC's Professional Performing Arts School.
First solo artist ever to have a #1 album and single on the Billboard charts at the same time with a debut.
One of "Teen People" Magazine's "21 Hottest Stars Under 21". [1999]
Caused a stir with the American Family Association by posing in her underwear on the cover of Rolling Stone. [1999]
Was one of People's 50 Most Beautiful People. [1999]
Ended up as the youngest cast member of "The All New Mickey Mouse Club" (1989).
Is a natural brunette. She often prefers to dye her hair blonde.
Her flesh-colored outfit at the MTV Video Music Awards created a stir, as it made her look scantily clad. [September 2000]
Accepted an endorsement from Pepsi to do TV commercials promoting the soft drink. The first commercial was slated for the 2001 Academy Awards. [2001]
Was selected as #2 among the 100 sexiest women in FHM Magazine. [2001]
2001: Host of the American Music Awards.
Wrote two books about herself, one with her mom.
11/11/99: She was the big winner at the MTV Europe Music Awards held in Dublin, winning the awards for Best Female, Best Pop, Best Breakthrough Artist, and Best Song for her hit "...Baby One More Time".
2001: Named one of E!'s "top 20 entertainers of 2001".
She was an aerobic instructor at the gym her parents owned.
2002: Voted one of the "Fun and Fearless Females" by Cosmopolitan Magazine.
2000: Was voted by 'People' magazine as the fourth most influential person of that year.
2002: Was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine.
2001: Was ranked 5th of the 100 Sexiest Women by FHM Taiwan.
June 2002: Came in at #2 in the American edition of FHM's Sexiest Girls of 2002 poll.
2003: Ranked #30 in Maxim's Hot 100 Issue.
2003: Ranked #2 in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women In The World.
2003: Ranked #2 in the "Awesome Multitaskers" section of Stuff's 125 Sexiest Women of the Year 2003 issue..
11/17/03: Received star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
May 2004: She finally gained the top spot in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2004", moving up from #2 last year.
Was ranked #4 on VH1's 100 Hottest Hotties.
Is the first woman to have four albums go straight to #1 on the American charts.
Spring 2004: Had emergency arthroscopic surgery after she injured her knee an the set of her music video "Outrageous".
2004: Her perfume "Curious" was one of the best selling fragrances of the year.
2002: Ranked #1 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World".
As of 2010, she is the best-selling female artist of the decade.
February 2005: Won her first Grammy for Best Dance Recording for "Toxic".
She is the only female artist of the Nielsen Soundscan era to have her first four albums debut at number one.
Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
9/14/05: Son Sean Federline born at Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center by Caesarian section. Father is ex-husband Kevin Federline.
August 2006: Posed nude for the cover of "Harper's Bazaar".
9/12/06: Second son, Jayden James Federline, born. Weighed 6 lb., 11 oz.
2006: Was named most searched name on internet search engine Yahoo!.
2006: Named "Most Controversial Celebrity of 2006" by CNN Headline News for her actions making people discuss about everything from proper parenthood to appearing in public without panties.
2006: Michael Fredo wrote a song about her called "Popstar Lovelife (Britney, I Know)".
2007: Ranked #12 in "Forbes" magazine's "The 20 Richest Women in Entertainment" list, estimating her net worth at around $100 million.
Ranked #8 on VH1's 100 Sexiest Artists.
Her 1999 album "Baby, One More Time" has sold 25 million copies worldwide.
Ranked #19 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008 list.
Her sixth album, Circus, debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, making her the youngest female artist in history to have five albums debut at number one, thus earning her a place in the Guiness Book of World Records.
Her sixth studio album, Circus, was released on 2nd December 2008, her 27th birthday.
Her single "3" has the shortest title of any song ever reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Her single "3", from her second greatest hits album, The Singles Collection, made her the first artist in over three years to debut at the top position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and the only non-American Idol artist in eleven years to do so.
On November 6, 2008, she won two awards at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2008, "Album of The Year" for Blackout and "Act of 2008".
In 2009, after years of absence, Forbes magazine listed her as the 13th most powerful celebrity and the second most top-earning young musician as she made $35 million from June 2008 to June 2009.
Her 6th studio album "Circus" which was released in 2008, became her fifth number 1 album.
Won a Grammy award for her hit song "Toxic." By 2010, Spears received 8 Grammy nominations.
Britney Spears has sold over 100 million albums world wide, making her one of the best-selling American recording artists.
On December 11, 2009 Billboard Magazine named Spears as the second-best selling act of the 2000s.
Her song "Womanizer" gained first-week download sales of 286,000, which is the biggest opening-week tally by a female artist since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking digital downloads in 2003.
As of 2009, Spears has had 6 number one singles on the European Hot 100 Singles Chart.
In June 2010, Spears was ranked sixth on the Forbes list of 100 Most Powerful and Influential celebrities in the world (earning more than $64 million in 2009). She is also ranked as the third most powerful musician in the world.
As of May 2010, Spears became the most popular person on twitter, with more than 5.2 million followers at that time.
Her 2009 'Circus' tour was the 5th highest-grossing tour of the year. According to concert trade publication Pollstar, "The Circus Starring Britney Spears" tour grossed more than $130 million.
According to Forbes, Spears is the third highest earning woman in Hollywood, banking $65 million in 2010.
Received her "Walk of Fame Star" in 2003, at the age of 21. She is the youngest music icon to be awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
On the 10th of January 2011, Spears' single "Hold It Against Me" set the record for most radio plays in one day in the United States, registering 619 plays on Mediabase and 595 plays on Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems (BDS).
"Hold It Against Me" (January 2011) is Spears' fourth single to debut at Number 1, after her songs "3" (2009), "Womanizer" (2008) and "Baby One More Time" (1999). According to Nielsen SoundScan "Hold It Against Me" has also netted 411,000 downloads, which marks the highest first-week tally for a female artist.
Spears' single "Hold It Against Me" (January 2011) made a debut at Number 1. This made her only the second artist in music history to debut more than one song at Number 1.
Spears' 2011 album Femme Fatal became her sixth number 1 album in the USA.
In a 2011 US poll, Spears was voted as the 3rd hottest celebrity mom, behind.
Spear's 2011 album Femme Fatal was her 6th album to debut at number 1, this makes her the first female ever to have six No. 1 album debuts. The album also debuted at No. 1 in Canada, Australia and Korea and entered in the Top 10 in 15 other countries.
According to Amplicate, Spears is the Most Loved Pop Star on social media (2011).
According to a UK poll in 2009, Spears' music video for her song 'Toxic' was voted as the Sexiest Music Video of All Time.
Between 2004 and 2010, Spears released 9 perfumes which grossed over $2 billion and sold over 1 billion bottles in just 5 years. This makes her the the number 1 celebrity perfume endorser of all-time.
Voted #25 on the 2011 Maxim list of "Hot 100" women.
Ranked #4 in FHM's "Sexiest Women" list in 2009. Previously she was ranked #31 in 2008, #54 in 2007, #5 in 2005, #1 in 2004, #3 in 2003, #3 in 2002, # in 2001, #2 in 2000, and #16 in 1999.
Was FHM's #1 Sexiest Woman in 2004.
Ranked #44 in the 2010 FHM UK list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World".
Set to launch her 10th fragrance called "Cosmic Radiance" in August, 2011.
Spears earned her 12th top 10 hit on the Hot 100 Billboard chart with "I Wanna Go," the third single from her 2011 "Femme Fatale" album. It was her 5th consecutive top 10 hit, following her #1 singles "3," "Hold It Against Me," and her appearance on Rihanna's "S&M" remix, while her song "Till the World Ends" charted at #3.
Spears was honored at the 2011 MTV Music Awards. The show paid tribute to Spears and she won 2 awards - the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award and the Best Pop Video Award for her song 'Till the World Ends'. The Video Vanguard Award is also known as the Lifetime Achievement Award. It has previously been given to artists such as Davide Bowie, The Beatles, 'Madonna', Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson and U2, among several other artists and music video directors. Spears received the award in 2011, it was handed to her by Lady Gaga.
