Britney Spears' highly anticipated memoir, The Woman in Me, will be released on October 24, and People has obtained exclusive excerpts ahead of its release.

Among these excerpts are heartbreaking descriptions of how the pop star felt during her father's 13-year conservatorship, which lasted from 2008 to 2021.

"I became a robot. But not just a robot, I became a kind of child robot," Starr wrote.

"I had been infantilized and was losing any semblance of my identity. The conservator had stripped me of my femininity and made me a child. I became a being rather than a person on the stage. I had always felt music in my bones and blood, and they took that away from me." The woman in me had been pushed down for so long"

. I was told to be wild on stage and to be a robot the rest of the time"

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"I felt like I was being deprived of the good secrets of life, the supposedly basic sins of indulgence and adventure that make us human. They took away that specialness and tried to make everything as simple as possible. It was robbing me of my creativity as an artist."

Elsewhere in the book, Spears opened up about her decision to shave her head in 2007 and revealed for the first time that she had an abortion during her relationship with Justin Timberlake.

Spears' conservatorship ended in 2021 after her father, Jamie Spears, came under weeks of pressure from his daughter's legal team.

At a hearing in June 2021, the singer called the arrangement "abusive." She told the judge, "Ma'am, I am not here to be someone's slave."