When Britney Spears found photographs from her honeymoon splashed on the cover of and inside the magazine Us Weekly, she was justifiably angry. She thought employees of the Fiji resort were taking pictures of her and husband Kevin Federline to use in a scrapbook they said they were preparing for the couple.

“Kevin and I chose a resort location where we were promised absolute privacy and seclusion,” Spears said. “Unfortunately, staff members took photographs of us, which we allowed them to take once we were assured they were being taken only for private use in a scrap book they gave us as a souvenir.”

Next thing she knew, Us published them with the headline, “Britney’s Private Album!”

Photographs show Spears and Federline on the beach, in the hotel, and enjoying their first weekend together as a married couple.

Spears said other magazines contacted her to let her know they were being offered the pictures, but would not publish them.

Us purchased the photographs however, and tried justifying it by implying that Spears was a hypocrite and was just upset that some people?and not her? profited off the photos.

“Coming from a celebrity who sold pictures of both her wedding and her stepdaughter, it’s unlikely the issue here is privacy,” Us told the AP. “Could it be that Britney is seeing red after not seeing the green from these photos? Britney Spears should start a magazine if she’d like to dictate her own coverage.”

In other words: Us doesn’t feel Britney deserves privacy.

This matter is sure to be brought up again because the owner of Us is the owner of Rolling Stone, a magazine Spears will surely go to for some publicity when she releases her next album.






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