In an excerpt from her memoir shared with People on 17 Oct., Spears shared that while she and Timberlake were dating, she became pregnant and ultimately had an abortion. "It was a surprise, but for me, it wasn't a tragedy. I loved Justin so much. I always expected us to have a family together one day. This would just be much earlier than I'd anticipated," she wrote. "But Justin definitely wasn't happy about the pregnancy. He said we weren't ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young . . . If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it. And yet Justin was so sure that he didn't want to be a father." She went on to describe the abortion as "one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life."
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