Britney Spears: Being a Mouseketeer with Christina Aguilera, Ryan Gosling and Justin Timberlake Was a ‘Kid’s Dream’ (Exclusive)

Getting roles The Mickey Mouse Club changed Britney Spears’ life when she was 11 years old.

In his forthcoming memoir The woman in methe pop superstar, now 41, looks back on her time working with fellow up-and-coming stars like Christina Aguilera, Ryan Gosling and Justin Timberlake on the Disney Channel variety show.

“Being on the show was training for the entertainment industry: extensive dance rehearsals, singing lessons, acting lessons, time in the recording studio and school in between,” Spears writes of the experience in the book.

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“The Mouseketeers quickly split into their own cliques, divided by the dressing rooms we shared: Christina Aguilera and I were the younger kids and we shared a dressing room. We looked up to the older kids — Keri Russell, Ryan Gosling and Tony Lucca, who I thought is so handsome,” the book says. “And I quickly bonded with a boy named Justin Timberlake.”

Spears adds in the book that she is working on The Mickey Mouse Club “Honestly, it was a kid’s dream — incredibly fun, especially for a kid like me. But it was also extremely hard work: we’d do the choreography thirty times a day, trying to get every step perfect.”

She recalls her time off set, writing in her memoir, “[Once] at sleepover we were playing Truth or Dare and someone challenged Justin to kiss me. A Janet Jackson song was playing in the background as he leaned in and kissed me.”

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The woman in me is Britney Spears.

“When the show ended a year and a half later … I decided to come back to Kentwood,” Spears writes of her Louisiana hometown in the book. “There was already a tug-of-war inside me: part of me wanted to continue building toward the dream; another part wanted me to live a normal life in Louisiana. For a moment, I had to let normality win.”

Spears starred on The Mickey Mouse Club from 1993 to 1994. The series became a launching pad for young artists, as the “Toxic” singer and many of her co-stars became major superstars.

The woman in me finds Spears detailing her journey from young starlet to mega pop star, as well as her past relationships and “heartbreaking” experience under surveillance from 2008 to 2021.

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“For the past 15 years or even the beginning of my career, I sat by while people talked about me and told my story for me,” she tells PEOPLE via email in a new cover story interview. “After I got out of conservatorship, I was finally free to tell my story without repercussions from the people who were in charge of my life.”

Spears’ long-awaited memoir The woman in me is set for release on October 24 via Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

For an exclusive excerpt and interview with Britney Spears, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands everywhere Friday.

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