It all started in 1999 when I was 11 years old. A good friend of mine brought her new Britney Spears CD to school. We listened to "Hit Me Baby One More Time" like bajillion times that day and I instantly fell in love. My mom bought me Britney's album and since than I have been listening to her. When I turned 12 years old, people started to bully me because I was still in to Britney Spears and apparently she wasn't "in" anymore. Well, I decided to ignore them. I have every single T-shirt, CD & DVD plus a lot of magazines, merchandise such as school bags, stickers...etc. My relatives know how much I love Britney so every time they see her in magazines they buy them for me. I'm now 19 years old and still a STRONG Britney fan. Her songs have helped me through so much and for that I am very thankful. That's basically how I started as a fan.