If that body is hers, where is the belly button ring?
Thursday August 16, 2007

Michael Thompson/Allure
The September issue of Allure features Britney Spears on the cover but – except for a few pictures -- you won’t find much of the star inside the magazine.
Spears missed four appointments for an interview with the magazine.
The first time she cancelled, the singer’s publicist said that she was delayed by important work in the recording studio. Meanwhile, the paparazzi found her a few hours later at a salon, getting her nails done.
Another time, the reporter sat waiting in the hotel room while Spears, 25, was reportedly at Neiman Marcus in Beverly Hills with a personal shopper spending $32,849.
Though editor-in-chief Linda Wells said in her editor’s letter that “Britney showed up for Allure’s cover shoot on time and ready to work,” she admits that there were moments of bizarre behavior.
“She was entirely un-self-concious,” writes Wells. “She took off her wig and then stripped down to the waist, for no apparent reason, before sitting for hair and makeup.”
The magazine ultimately ran the issue without Spears’ interview.
In the article titled “Britney on Hold,” Allure quotes NYC psychotherapist Jane Greer, who believes -- as Us Weekly has previously reported -- that the star suffers from bipolar disorder.
“Her behavior suggests bipolar disorder,” says Greer. “The manic episodes with impulsivity and loss of control – the flashing, the head shaving, the hitting the photographer’s car with the umbrella – are what we see.”
The therapist pointed to an incident in June when (after her parents allegedly pressured her into rehab) Spears publicly delivered a letter to her mother telling her to stay away from her children.
“Part of manic behavior is a flight from reality and the anger,” says Greer. “People who are manic get angry at people who try to take away their high – like her mother, for example – by introducing any element of reality.”


