Pictures of Britney Spears Young Will Break Your Heart

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really will break your heart all over again.It's hard to remember a time when Spears was not a part of our every day cultural lexicon, or to remember that when she burst onto the pop scene with “Baby One More Time” in 1998, she was barely 17-years-old.

Which means that we, you and me, all of us, have quite literally watched Spears grow up under the spotlight.In her , Spears described the traumas she's been through throughout her life, both before she was famous and afterwards. “I feel like I’ve been underwater for so long, only rarely swimming up to the surface to gasp for air and a little food,” she wrote in the book, published soon after she was granted release from her .

was publicly humiliated after her breakup from Justin Timberlake, followed by a public mental health crisis in 2007, and then the beginnings of the conservatorship in 2008.But in the 1990s, when Britney Spears was young and just at the beginning of her career, she looks so different from the tragic figure we tend to picture her as today.1999 MTV Music Video Awards1999 Teen Choice Awards in Los Angeles, CA1999 Smash Hits Poll Winners PartyDecember 17, 1998: Z100's 5th Annual "Jingle Ball"1999 Universal Amphitheatre in Universal City, California1999 On set of the “Something” music video.1999 MTV Video Music AwardsMay, 1999 Disney WorldMay, 1999 Disney WorldAugust 27, 1999 US Open Kids Day in Authur Ash Stadium1998 AMA in Los Angeles, CaliforniaJuly 7, 1999 Post concert party at Bowery Bar, New York,December 10, 1999 10th Annual Billboard Music Awards1999 Britney Spears and Melissa Joan HartMTV'S 1999 Big Help ConcertSeptember 24, 1999 Maybelline Presents YM's Rising Star ConcertSpears in the '90s1999 in BerlinMore from GlamourSee More Stories & Guides©.