Thanks to Lynne Spears, everyone and their dog knows when Britney Spears lost her virginity. It is big news, even in far away locations where India where newspapers and websites have reported that according to excerpts from Lynne Spears’ book Through The Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World.

Britney must be very happy indeed. Or does she care, despite all those occasional spats and estrangements that goes in the life of the ex pop diva?

We would not hold back, of course, in exploiting what we can. So here’s what everyone who still knows who Britney Spears is talking about, thanks to mom Lynne Spears.

So Lynne Spears tell us in Through the Storm that Britney started drinking at 13, lost her virginity when she was 14 to an 18 year old football player from school. Why? because excellent mother that she is, she thought it would help Britney become more popular in school. More popular, because she was obviously suffering from lack of attention despite being a Mouseketeer. But we should not be judging Lynne Spears – after all, we are definitely not talking about a normal family here. Then, according to Through The Storm, Lynne allowed Britney to sleep with Justin Timberlake who she dated. All this at a time when Britney Spears (more her marketers) were proclaiming her virgin status to the whole world. Not only can we see that there are a lot of shameless people involved who would sell their mothers for commercial success, it begins to make sense that under that kind of need for marketing and visibility, Lynne just went along.

Oh, and isn’t having sex with a 14 year old statutory rape in the US?

And the next. Lynne informs in Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World that Britney was caught when she was 16 with cocaine and marijuana while boarding a private jet, and she was shocked. Poor Britney, with a mother like this, who needs enemies? So now we know who she slept with for the first time, and that was taking drugs at 16. Britney sends her thanks to you, Lynne. She told us to let us know this feels like a big load is off her back. Closure and coming clean and all that.

Lynne Spears’ book Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World will be released on September 16, 2008.

Lynne Spears acknowledges in her book that she regrets handing over Britney’s responsibilities to professional handlers who promoted her as a virginal sex object. 

Perhaps we should not blame her. Perhaps it is not possible to create the kind of pop icon that she was, if things were under strict parental control. This was the price, and the price was paid.  Still being paid, if we consider that the book exposes what little skeletons that are remaining in Britney’s closet.

Poor Justin Timberlake. We now know that Britney’s virgin status was a marketing gimmick – but Timberlake was misled about her virgin status too.

According to the Daily Mail, Lynen Spears was told that if the singer was going to compete with sexier and older stars like Mariah Carey “she needed to be marketed more like a Lolita.” 

Reports that Britney is not happy with the latest book by her mom. Lynne Spears has co-written two books with Britney befire, — Heart to Heart and A Mother’s gift. Through The Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World will be released in September 2008. Through the Storm, probably, reveals a lot more than the daughter would like.

Initially, Through the Storm was rumored to be a parenting advice book – which thankfully, it has turned out not to be. And whether we blame Lynne Spears or not after reading it, the book, I am sure, will be a good read for everyone – after all, the life of the average person too can turn tabloid-ish in an instant, and privacy reduces every day, the story of Britney whose life is constantly exposed in the media should give us a few pointers.