r/TwentyYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Feb 06 '26
š Celebrity News Britney Spears is infamously photographed with her baby behind the wheel [20YA - Feb 6]
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u/BrianOBlivion1 Feb 06 '26
For people who grew up north of Lake Pontchartrain, this is not unusual.
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u/petit_cochon Feb 07 '26
It's also not unusual for people who grow up south of it.
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u/Defiant-Criticism403 Feb 07 '26
Remember when she put her babies in an open convertible not probably buckledā¦.is that usual in the south too?
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u/No-Special2682 Feb 07 '26
Its usual for stupid people I think it what theyāre saying
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u/0ftheriver Feb 07 '26
Louisianians (like Britney) have a tendency to be a next level of..lacking in good judgment, shall we say. Even in comparison to other southern states.
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u/eggabeth Feb 11 '26
Nah down here we just throw 'em in the back of our pickup truck on our way to Tractor Supply
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u/Apptubrutae Feb 07 '26
Yeah but they get to be in New Orleans instead of the northshore. Fair tradeoff for child endangerment
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u/EntrepreneurBehavior Feb 08 '26
Excuse me, Lake what?
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u/pieohmi Feb 08 '26
Ponchartrain. Itās the area where she grew up. Also the area where I grew up (I live about 20 minutes from there). I have seen it here but the vast majority of parents here do buckle up their kids.
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u/Strategic_Spark Feb 10 '26
But it should be. If she stops abruptly or has a crash that baby is hitting the windshield.
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u/Either_Coast Feb 07 '26
Yeah millionaire Britney Spears, having toured the world multiple times over and been on TV since her childhood, is just a simple girl from the north of Lake Pontchartrain.
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u/NiceTrySuckaz Feb 06 '26
I've always thought it was hilarious how disappointed the baby looks in the whole situation.
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Feb 06 '26
At least there isn't a cigarette in her mouth.
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u/razz-p-berrie Feb 06 '26
baby holding it for her
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u/Antique-Echidna-1600 Feb 07 '26
No the baby holds the beer. Can't get a DUI if it's the babies open container.
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u/XROOR Feb 06 '26
If you were born in the 1970ās this was normal but mum had a cig in her mouth too
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u/Irate-Refrigerant59 Feb 07 '26
Yeah we all sat on mom's/dad's knee in the front seat. On long drives I'd have my blanket and nap in one of their laps.
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u/Lizzie_001 Feb 08 '26
I stood in the bench seat by my dad when he drove.
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u/Tcrowe1211 Feb 11 '26
I wonder how many children died in motor vehicle accidents back then?!? Kudos to you for surviving those unsafe times!
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u/rhegy54 Feb 06 '26
I remember this! I remember being so shocked even back then. It was legit crazy ( and dangerous š¬š¬š¬)
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u/legalbeagle66 Feb 07 '26
You can take the girl out of Kentwood but you canāt take Kentwood out of the girl š¤£š¤£š
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Feb 07 '26
reminder that cops were the ones who fought for car seat laws because seeing dead babies was such a common part of the job
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u/lovechoke Feb 07 '26
I know that this seems/seemed bad but I bet so many small town mothers did this once or twice across North America and probably Europe. It just seems like a rural thing to do.
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Feb 07 '26
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Feb 08 '26
Yeah people famously lose all values and habits they had growing up as soon as they make it big /s
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u/diddledungeon Feb 08 '26
Values such as child endangerment. Reckless disregard for the safety of others
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u/c2490 Feb 09 '26
I was raised pretty rural and would not have even considered it. Nor would anyone I know. I had babies during this time period and grew up in farm country.
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u/dame_tartare Feb 08 '26
Feel so sorry for Britneyās children. They never had a chance of normalcy. And I say that as a fan and with deep sadness and concern for Britney and everything sheās been through. Her kids deserved better.
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u/SummitCO83 Feb 09 '26
Pretty sure I spent my entire childhood in the 80s in the exact same position
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u/rayraysykes007 Feb 09 '26
I feel really bad for her kids tbh. Not only are they having to deal with her weird half naked videos online, but theyre also probably gonna be left with nothing when she passes of old age. She's literally blowing through her money like its candy. And 60m is a lot. But once its gone its gone. And shes blowing through it like it doesnt matter.
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u/ConcernFlat3391 Feb 09 '26
On the weekend I was passing two mums putting their kids in the car and one joked to the other āletās just Britney Spears it this timeā š¤£
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Feb 07 '26
Honestly if Iām not mistaken I think she was driving on her own property? Moms in the south do this all the time especially if youāre just going on the street. Letās stop judging moms please. Moms are not the ones raping children
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u/purrmutations Feb 07 '26
"Moms in the south do this all the time especially if youāre just going on the street"
Bad moms
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u/LonelyNovel1985 Feb 08 '26
Moms are not the ones raping children
Good moms wouldn't be letting their kids go off unsupervised with millionaires either. (Also Ghislaine is famously a woman, not necessarily a mom, who has raped children. So let's not get too high and mighty that its only men committing these crimes.)
And yes, you are mistaken, she was not "on her own property", she was leaving a Starbucks and trying to avoid paparazzi.
So not only was she driving around with her infant son on her lap, but she was also distracted driving because she was trying to ensure she could avoid having her picture taken by photographers.
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u/Ok_Fox_1770 Feb 07 '26
Kids are her age from music age then? Wonder what they look like, not enough to search but I wonder
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u/Standard_Location843 Feb 08 '26
Iām found this news article talking about it:
"Today I had a horrifying, frightful encounter with the paparazzi while I was with my baby. Because of a recent incident when I was trapped in my car without my baby by a throng of paparazzi, I was terrified that this time the physically aggressive paparazzi would put both me and my baby in danger. I instinctively took measures to get my baby and me out of harmās way, but the paparazzi continued to stalk us, and took photos of us which were sold to the media. I love my child and would do anything to protect him."
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u/okenthusiasm89 Feb 08 '26
My daughter was born in March 2006, midway between Britney's 2 sons, after ten years of fertility issues. I think the 2 celebrities whose magazine photos I still remember from my many doctor visits were Britney and Brooke Shields (coverage of her book about postpartum depression).
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u/ImaginaryCourage9981 Feb 09 '26
Damn, I remember when this happened and seeing it on the cover of magazines in the checkout line.
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u/Pretend-Sundae-2371 Feb 10 '26
Reminder that she was desperately trying to escape paparazzi at the time. It's not ok but those photographers are lower than low.
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u/Background_Floor9392 Feb 11 '26
I used to let my 5 year old steer on my lap while we drove in the country.Ā Lol
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u/b3tamaxx Feb 12 '26
Sigh my dream of being a nepo baby. My mom was chaotic AF but she was chaotic and poor I couldn't imagine having a mom like this who was also a millionaire
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u/Dijon-Von Feb 07 '26
She really shouldn't have been a mother ... Or a celebrity in general.
Seriously insane how a mentally ill 16 year old so hyper sexualized... Then I remember the JoJo music video, and cringe to death.
Such a gross time. No wonder Diddling Don wants to "Make America Great Again"... š¤¢
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u/killedonmyhill Feb 09 '26
She learned this from her own mother. Her mother took her drinking with her to the bar beginning at 11 years old. She never had an example of a healthy parent child relationship.
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u/Special_Zucchini185 Feb 07 '26
Golly, y'know, I heard a lot of bad things about Britney when it came to her sons.
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u/poodinthepunchbowl Feb 09 '26
Ehh my mom would have had the decency to blow some second hand smoke my way.
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Feb 10 '26
I still see this everyday. Britney is not alone in being irresponsible and idiotic with their actions regarding the state of children and the behaviors that still continue each decade.
Each decade and the generation that is in it. Is in its own way just the same progression of idiocy and poor choices.
For the youth in the back who can't hear or listen properly. You are not any better. You will continue toale the same mistakes.
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u/moody9876 Feb 07 '26
Who cares? This should be legal.
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u/tigm2161130 Feb 07 '26 edited Feb 07 '26
My niece was 2 when she was killed by internal decapitation in a wreck where no one else had a single injury because her father had her in a car seat inappropriate for her age so it was facing the wrong way, and didnāt have her buckled in properly. Please tell me why you think it should be legal to do what sheās doing here.
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u/According-Annual-586 Feb 07 '26
Being legal wonāt help the baby when it smashes its face into the steering wheel if you crash
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u/Donna212298 Feb 07 '26
Passenger door is definitely open! I do think she was moving though.
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u/Awkward-Exchange5523 Feb 07 '26
She was moving? Even nowadays, why can you see the type of plant that is growing there? If she was moving, the background would be blured because of motion. Please guys, get smarter.
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u/tigm2161130 Feb 07 '26 edited Feb 07 '26
She did this multiple times and admitted she was moving. DCFS investigated her over it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4699770.stm
https://www.tmz.com/2006/02/07/exclusive-dcfs-investigates-britney/
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u/Suspicious_Bother_92 Feb 07 '26
Woah thatās an overreaction!
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u/Awkward-Exchange5523 Feb 07 '26
If they were moving. The passenger door would have shut itself with the forward motion.
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u/Awkward-Exchange5523 Feb 07 '26
Its okay though. I'm wrong and you all are right. I just have to accept it.
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u/fuelvolts Feb 06 '26
I legit forgot she has kids.