Britney Spears Says She Was Allowed To Eat "Almost Nothing But Chicken And Canned Vegetables" For 2 Years

"My father was always telling me I was fat," Britney Spears wrote

Pop singer Britney Spears shared how her father made her follow a strict diet under her "conservatorship", reported People. The pop megastar claimed in her new autobiography 'The Woman in Me' that her father, Jamie Spears, allowed her to eat "almost nothing but chicken and canned vegetables" for two years. "No matter how much I dieted and exercised, my father was always telling me I was fat. He put me on a strict diet. The irony was that we had a butler - an extravagance - and I would beg him for real food," Britney Spears wrote in her memoir.

According to People, the Lucky singer explained that she would ask the butler to "sneak a hamburger or ice cream" to her, however, the butler said he couldn't because he had "strict orders" from her father. "So for two years, I ate almost nothing but chicken and canned vegetables," she wrote, before noting that "two years is a long time to not be able to eat what you want, especially when it's your body and your work and your soul making the money that everyone's living off of." "I found it so degrading," she added.

Though Britney Spears has alleged that her father's control was traumatic, Jamie, now 71, has often maintained that he was acting in his daughter's best interests.