Britney Spears on Signing Record Deal at 15: ‘Rooms Full of Men Looking Me Up and Down in My Small Dress’ (Exclusive)

Britney Spears reflects on the moment she signed her first record deal.

In an exclusive excerpt from her long-awaited memoir The woman in mepop superstar, 41, writes about life after The Mickey Mouse Club – in which she appeared as a child star alongside Ryan Gosling, Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera.

At the age of 15, Spears was ready to record her own music, because, as she writes in the book, she “missed performing”.

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“My mom was in contact with a lawyer she met at my audition, a man named Larry Rudolph, who she would sometimes call for business advice,” Spears writes of the man who would become her former manager. “He suggested I record a demo. He had a song that Toni Braxton recorded for her second album that ended up on the cutting room floor. This would become the demo I would use to get into record companies.”

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As Spears explained, Rudolph brought her to auditions.

“Larry showed me around [New York City], and I went to rooms full of executives and sang Whitney Houston’s ‘I Have Nothing,’” she writes. “Looking into rooms full of men in suits looking me up and down in my little dress and high heels, I sang loud.”

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With her recording contract, “distribution wanted me in the studio right away,” Spears recalls in the recording book of her debut album, …Honey one more time. “I worked for hours without interruption. My work ethic was strong. If you knew me then, you wouldn’t have heard from me for days. I would stay in the studio as long as I could. If someone wanted to leave, I would say, ‘I wasn’t perfect.’ When all the songs were finished, someone said, ‘What else can you do? Do you want to dance now?’ I said, ‘Hell yes I do!’

Spears’ book, which arrives Oct. 24, will also feature an audio edition narrated by five-time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams, PEOPLE exclusively revealed late last week. While Spears herself will record the introduction to the book, Williams will lend her voice to the rest of the project.

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“This book is a product of love and all the emotions that come with it,” Spears told PEOPLE. “Reliving it all was exciting, heartbreaking and emotional to say the least. For these reasons, I will only be reading a small portion of my audiobook. I am very grateful to the amazing Michelle Williams for reading the rest.”

The memoir will be published by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, and will “illuminate the enduring power of music and love — and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms,” ​​according to a statement.

For more exclusive excerpts and interviews with Britney Spears, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands everywhere Friday.

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