Phyllis Jager is an accomplished journalist, screenwriter, and author of more than four books, including Tricks or Treats: A Realistic Look at Diet Fraud and Weight Loss Quackery in Our Nation. The topics explored in this, her most recent book include illegal behavior on the part of the paparazzi, mistakes made by Child Services departments who have played a role in keeping Spears away from her kids, and the psychological devastation that is caused by the constant invasion of any person's privacy.
Each subsequent chapter explores the theme of celebrity harassment in the media from a unique viewpoint. “Celebrity Life” parts 1 and 2 look at the stress of a superstar's lifestyle and the reason for so many premature deaths in Hollywood. “Exposed” is a raw look at the devastating effect that endless spying and camera surveillance has on both celebrities and the Nation as a whole. “Britney Spears: The Commodity” uncovers the unwholesome virtue and merit unjustly applied to Hollywood celebrities in our “grab-em-while-
“People don’t understand how their actions contribute to a general demise,” Jager writes, “and the attitude is that someone else’ll do it, it’s not my fault. I didn’t mean to, I can’t go on. I’m too tired. I don’t have the strength. And the one thing you don’t hear a lot of any more is, I can do it. I can do it. I can get the job done. Which is why there are so many hopefuls. It’s why people have such a burning need to turn to celebrity. It should have been them. They say now that being a millionaire is as common as being poor. So somehow we’ve raised the standards without raising the morale, and everybody wants the easy path, the easy road, the easy buck. So when celebrities become celebrities, when they make it to the top, the general public already has resentment for them. And they’re looking for any little thing they can sink their teeth into, any starting point for ripping them apart. And to me, that’s what happened. That is the truth about Britney Spears.”
The Truth About Britney Spears; Untold Secrets and Her Ultimate Betrayal can be purchased at http://www.thetruthaboutbritneyspears.com where readers are invited to contact the author personally, or at http://www.lulu.com. In stores and online booksellers worldwide May 2008. “Britney Spears is an American singer. She’s a dancer and a model and a tabloid queen,” begins the introduction, “she’s the most heavily searched term on the internet, and the best selling artist of a new millennium. She’s a victim, a mother, a sister and a lover. She’s a leader, and if you have the courage to read the following pages with unashamed eyes, you will discover the secret of the famous southern beauty in a more profound way than any tabloid could or would ever print. Fasten your seatbelts, America, because we are all about to discover the shocking truth of a vicious stab in the back. A betrayal so profound not because it is a betrayal of an innocent young mother, but because it is a betrayal of ourselves. If Britney Spears fails under the pressure of her fame, as others have before her… if she does not rise again to sing another day, then there may not be another person who will volunteer to replace her. For all her sensuality, this girl is too innocent. And for all her fame, she is too gentle. Will we betray her trust?”
