Britney Spears' rare confession about her virginity reemerges

Britney Spears is getting up and close with her fans about her earlier romantic flames.

The Princess of Pop, 43, had revealed in her 2023 memoir that Justin Timberlake was not who she lost her virginity to after having lied about it for 30 years.

Her confession recently began making rounds on the internet again, with fans realising that the memoir also revealed who she did have her first sexual encounter with.

"Given that I had so many teenage fans, my managers and press people had long tried to portray me as an eternal virgin - never mind that Justin Timberlake and I had been living together, and I'd been having sex since I was fourteen," she penned in The Woman in Me of her early career, when she had shot to fame as a Disney child star.

The actress also revealed that her actual first sexual encounter was with her brother's childhood buddy, who was her senior while she was a freshman.

"The truth was, if you’re young and single in Hollywood, if there’s even a rumor that you’ve had sex, you’re labelled a s***. So my team created this whole narrative around me," she explained at another point in her book.

Even after Spears and Timberlake parted ways in 2002, the Toxic songstress had to keep up with the lie for years to preserve her brand image.

"Why did my managers work so hard to claim I was some kind of young-girl virgin even into my twenties? Whose business was it if I'd had sex or not?" the Oops!... I Did It Again singer added.

The book also details the star's battles with her mental health, conservatorship under her father, and other intimate details like her exploitation in the music industry and her decision to have an abortion.