Britney Spears

Britney Spears was born in McComb, Mississippi  and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana as a Southern Baptist.

Her folks are Lynne Irene ( nèe Bridges ), a previous junior school teacher, and Jamie Parnell Spears, a previous building contractor and cook. Spears has 2 brothers, Bryan and Jamie Lynn. Bryan Spears is married to Jamie-Lynn's boss, Graciella Rivera. Spears was a skilled gymnast, attending gymnastics classes till age 9 and competing in state-level competitions.  She performed in local dance revues and sang in her local Baptist church choir. Spears entered NY City's Pro Performing humanities College when she was 8. Spears's folks would regularly disagree, and they ultimately divorced in 2002.  At age 8, Spears auditioned for the Disney Channel series The New Mickey Mouse Club. Though she was considered too junior to join the series at the point, a producer on the show introduced her to a NY City agent Spears afterwards spent 3 summers at NYC's Pro Performing humanities College and also appeared in a few off-Broadway productions.

She was an understudy in the 1991 off-Broadway musical Ruthless! In 1992, she landed a spot on the preferred TV show Star Search. She won the 1st round of competition, but at last lost.

At age eleven, Spears returned to the Disney Channel for a spot on the The New Mickey Mouse Club in Lakeland, Florida. She was featured on the show from 1993 to 1994, till she was 13. After the show stopped, Spears returned to Kentwood and attended highschool for a year. In 1997, Spears momentarily joined the all-female pop group Innosense. Later that same year, she recorded a solo demo and was signed by Jive