Britney Spears has opened up about her love of flashing the flesh on social media.
Over the last couple of years, the Toxic singer, 41, has used Instagram to share a number of videos of her dancing in sexy underwear and posing in various states of undress with only strategically placed emojis covering her modesty.
The move has divided fans and resulted in Spears deactivating comments on her posts. She has now addressed her controversial content in upcoming memoir, The Woman In Me, which is released worldwide on Tuesday.
In a passage viewed by The New York Times, the Louisiana native acknowledges that many of her followers might find her posts confusing, but says that she gets “joy” from “posing the way I feel sexy”.
“I know that a lot of people don’t understand why I love taking pictures of myself naked or in new dresses,” Spears writes in the book.
“But I think if they’d been photographed by other people thousands of times, prodded and posed for other people’s approval, they’d understand that I get a lot of joy from posing the way I feel sexy and taking my own picture.”
Spears recently sparked concern after sharing videos of her dancing with knives.
While she insisted that the knives were not real and were in fact Halloween props, she received a welfare check from the police after worried fans put a call in over the clip.
Writing about it on the picture sharing app, she fumed: “So unacceptable for cops to listen to random fans and come in to my home unwarranted.
“Jesus Christ … can I make calls and make others feel threatened in your home?”
