Don't assume you know Britney Spears because you've seen her posing in music videos or on magazine covers.
Spears' role in pop music has been largely disputed. While she is often derided as untalented, she's nonetheless become a modern day icon for popular culture. She was ranked number 20 out of the 200 top popculture icons of all time by VH1 and People.
Singles such as "...Baby One More Time," "Oops!... I Did It Again," "I'm a Slave 4 U" and especially "Toxic" have gone on to become major successes and pop music classics. She topped FHM magazine's 2004 U.S. and world polls for sexiest woman. In 2006, Spears did not feature at all in the FHM Top 100 sexiest women. Factors that could have contributed to this could be her marriage to Kevin Federline and the birth of her son, Sean Preston.
Throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, Spears was a influential trend-setter within the United States, inspiring several fashion crazes. As a result, she is often credited with popularizing the use of low-rise jeans, crop tops, lower back tattoos, and the Whale tail among young women.
The birth of Spears' son was the inspiration behind a statue by Daniel Edwards, Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston, which was unveiled in March 2006.
In 2004, Britney Spears became sixteenth on the rich list, along the way she grossed $40.5 million touring and sold 8.1 million copies of her second album along, after that came income form further Spears albums and movies.
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