The King and Princess of Pop: shared traits of two performers

Britney facts

Britney started practicing gymnastics at age five. Her floor routines were particularly clean. She even trained at Bella Karoly's gym, but gave up on the sport because she found it grueling, and not as compelling as singing or dancing before an audience. Bella remembers her as amazing dancer. Later on she worked as an understudy in Ruthless! in New York. Come Christmas time she wanted to go home. Natalie Portman filled in for her. When she was 14 years old, her mother casually asked an 18 year old senior to date her. He was Britney's first boyfriend. They kept the relationship even when she flew to Europe to record her first single, but broke up when Titanic was being shown in theatres across the world and Britney called her former boyfriend to tell him she'd just beaten Leo at a game of ping pong. Shonda Rhimes (How to get away with murder) wrote the script for Britney's movie Crossroads. Britney's second husband was a dancer for Michael Jackson. Britney's favorite singers include Madonna, Whitney Houston, Michael and Janet Jackson.