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I had largely forgotten about these incidents until I watched Framing Britney Spears, the much-discussed documentary about the media intrusion that contributed to Spears’s 2007 mental health crisis, and her efforts to free herself from a conservatorship administered by her father. Watching footage of a 17-year-old Spears smiling politely as a male interviewer asked about her breasts brought everything back. My God, I thought. For young women and girls, the 2000s truly were a cursed era.
Like a paparazzo’s flashbulb exploding in the face of an It girl stumbling out of Chateau Marmont, the period is currently undergoing a stark reappraisal. And like those paparazzi photos, it’s a none-too-flattering portrait. In addition to Framing Britney Spears, there is the upcoming Demi Lovato documentary Dancing With the Devil, which documents the 00s Disney starlet’s struggles with drug addiction. The recent BBC series Celebrity: A 21st-Century Story also features interviews with Kerry Katona and Charlotte Church, both tormented by the media in the 00s, and footage of paparazzi upskirting women as they get into cars. Horrifying interviews have resurfaced online; in one 2003 clip, Diane Sawyer makes Spears cry after blaming her for her breakup with Justin Timberlake. (Timberlake has been slammed online for his behaviour towards Spears, whom he shamed for their breakup, and Janet Jackson, whose breast he exposed at the 2004 Super Bowl, tanking her career.)

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