Britney Spears Overview

Britney Jean Spears was born in rural Louisiana to an average American family. She shone at gymnastics and dance as a child. At age eight, she was turned down after an audition for The Mickey Mouse Club, because she was too young. Britney was then taken to New York by her mother, where the little girl worked in commercials and was hired as the understudy for the lead in the off Broadway play Ruthless. At 11, she again auditioned for MMC and this time, she got in, along with two other... See All