Britney Spears
During his one-on-one with Britney Spears on Dateline NBC Thursday night, Matt Lauer called the "sweet little girl" he first met seven years ago, when she sang "Silent Night" at the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree-lighting ceremony, "one tough cookie."
"I don't allow anyone to change me," said Spears, 24, who had asked to do the interview to combat recent negative reports about her appearance, marriage and parenting skills. And combat them she did. On the way she looks: "I still walk out of my house in rollers," she told Lauer. "I do not care what people think." On life with husband Kevin Federline: "Awesome. Thank you."
On taking 9-month-old son Sean Preston to the emergency room after he fell from his high chair: "The doctors acted really funny.I don't want to say what they did, or what they said, but it was really bad." Spears cried several times during the interview, but when Lauer asked why she didn't just walk away from her fame, she said, "I have to believe I'm here for a reason." What is that reason? "I don't know. I have to keep searching every day."
Despite her fame, she insisted she wants Sean Preston to have "the most normal life for him that's possible." When Lauer asked if she knew the sex of the second child she is expecting, Spears said no: "I wanted to be surprised." She also said she wasn't sure how far along she was, but Lauer calculated that the baby is due in September.
Spears also speculated on why she'd gone from press darling to tabloid target. She said she'd felt "a little shift" in the perception of her after she and Justin Timberlake broke up and he suggested in a video that she'd cheated.
Then came her quickie Las Vegas wedding – and annulment 55 hours later – to childhood friend Jason Alexander, which she told Lauer was an act of rebellion when she was saddled with a rigorous performance schedule. "But I have no regrets for anything I've ever done," she said.
Next came her relationship with Kevin Federline, who, Lauer pointed out, left girlfriend Shar Jackson for Spears when Jackson was six months pregnant with their second child.Spears pled ignorance: "I didn't know until two months later. But I don't blame him. … They weren't technically together when he came to me anyways.
They were, you know, apart. But that happened with Julia Roberts too." (Roberts began dating husband Danny Moder while he was still married to Vera Steimberg.)
"But it's more talked about and more of an issue with me," Spears continued. "Like, her husband was married and had kids when they first got together.
But for some reason it's like, boom! in your face when it happens with me, and it's really none of anybody's business." Lauer pointed out that Moder and Steimberg, in fact, had no children.
But Spears insisted that Federline – whom Lauer saw when he arrived at her Malibu house, putting to rest rumors that he'd moved out – is a good person.
"He's like a boy," she said. "He cares. He cares so much. His heart is awesome. He has a really big heart, and I love that." Spears also told Lauer she's a housewife at heart." "I cook, I try to cook," she said. "And I like to clean."
Her housekeeper comes once a week, but "she slacks a little." Although fans might be surprised to learn that a star worth an estimated $100 million still does her own laundry, Spears said in her Louisiana twang, "That's who I am!"
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Kevin Federline Gets a New Job
Kevin Federline
Kevin Federline, who recently cleaned up for a makeover on the cover of Item magazine, is now the face of a fashion label.
The former backup dancer, 28, has signed on to represent the Five Star Vintage line by the San Francisco-based Blue Marlin clothing company. He will appear in an initial series of ads slated to begin running in magazines this September, a spokesman for the firm confirms to PEOPLE.
The target age group for the line is between 16 and 28, and Macy's, Lord & Taylor and the Virgin Mega Stores will sell the "edgy" look, said the spokesman.
Asked whether Federline's role with the company was permanent, the rep said, "We have to see how this first ad campaign goes."
The rep did say, however, that Federline has already shot the photos for the campaign, and that Federline's wife, Britney Spears, attended the shoot but will not appear in any of the pictures.
While Spears was featured in a heavily promoted Dateline interview Thursday night, Federline laid low, declining to appear on the program, said the program's special host, Matt Lauer.
But the NBC show did air clips of a previous Federline interview with Access: Hollywood, to illustrate – according to Lauer – that he is not "a gold digger."
Speaking in a recording studio, where he was working on his upcoming album Playing With Fire, Federline – who called his wife "so supportive" of his career – told Access: "I've been paying for everything out of my pocket. Everything."
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