Britney Jean Spears (born on December 2. 1981 in Mississippi, USA) is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, dancer, actress, author an songwriter and is an icon in pop music. Rapidly she became famous in 1999, when she launched her first album "Baby one more time". Spears has sold over 83 million copies worldwide and is therefore the 8. most selling femaile artist in American music history.
In 2004 she married Kevin Federline, whose career as dancer and rapper just had begun and the following year she gave birth to their son, Sean Preston. Their second son, Jayden James, was born in 2006. Britney Spears filed for a divorce on November 7th 2006 citing irreconcilable differences. After a long fight for custody of their children between Spears and Federline, Britney eventually got full custody. But later in 2007 it went down-hill from Britney. She came into a very turbulent period of her life, where it is said that she went to wild parties with her new pal, Paris Hilton, who is known for the TV series "The Simple Life". In January 2008 Britney was committed to a institution because she denied giving her children back to her ex-husband Kevin Federline.