Britney predictably went out partying Tuesday night until the wee hours, stumbling to her car visibly drunk. This is just after learning that she needed to stop drinking if she wanted to keep her kids. She had several options to make sure that the entire world didn’t learn that she’s unable and/or unwilling to take the judge’s orders seriously.

Britney could have:
1. Stayed home and tried to tough it out, dealing with the DTs and sweating and hallucinating, if she’s that far gone already. Surely whatever withdrawal she would suffer is less than the heartbreak of losing her children.
2. Stayed home and got wasted there. At least it wouldn’t be public knowledge.
3. Gone out to a non-hotspot where only the paparazzi who follow her would have documented her drunkenness.

Instead, Britney went out to hotspots Hyde and Winstons, where photographers wait for celebrity sightings all night. Her behavior was a definite “fuck you” to the court system, and to anyone who dare ask her to behave like the mother of two small children. She wants her childhood back, and she doesn’t want to have any responsibilities whatsoever. It looks like two of them are about to be taken off her hands.

There’s also a recent quote from an “insider” who says that Britney has serious eating issues, and regularly throws up, starves herself, and binges. This might be just a made up story based on known information about Britney. She supposedly talked in group therapy in rehab about how she’s been bulimic for years, and her assistant, Alli, is quoted as saying she starved herself for three days before the VMAs.

The “friend” tells OK! Magazine that Britney also called her fat and disgusting, a clear case of projection. I’m not saying Britney’s fat, she’s normal, she just clearly has issues over it and is said to have bawled that she looked like a fat pig after seeing herself moping around on stage:

As the judge in her custody battle with ex-hubby Kevin Federline orders Britney Spears to undergo testing for drug and alcohol use, OK! can report that friends of the beleaguered pop star are worried sick that her starve-and-bing relationship with food may be pushing her even deeper into despair.

“Britney told me, ‘I’ll starve myself because I’m fat,’” one friend of the singer reveals to OK!. “She kept telling me she thought I was fat and disgusting.”

[From OK Magazine]

If only Britney would hire someone who would help her exercise and cook her meals like Jessica Simpson did, she would be able to lose weight without yo-yoing and torturing herself, but that would involve admitting she needs help and taking advice. We know all too well that she is woefully incapable of either.

It’s remarkable to watch Britney fuck up so consistently. It seems to be the only thing she’s capable of lately, and just about any story about her seems believable. That’s why I was so quick to believe that she put a hit out on K-Fed. (The LAPD said they investigated a threat on K-Fed’s life after it was turned over to them by the FBI, but that it was not credible and the investigations are now closed.)

Britney still has some options to keep her children if she can put aside her sense of entitlement at being a train wreck. She can’t leave LA to sober up, because if she wants to keep her children she has to commit about 14 hours a week to various meetings with parenting coaches and individual and joint therapy with K-Fed. Despite behavior indicating she’s not ready to lift a finger, she still can chose to clean up, get sober, and keep her children. It’s possible even if she stays put. Since someone else is telling her to do that, it’s doubtful she’ll even put a modicum of work into obeying court orders. She did get glasses for cosmetic reasons, though. Maybe that means she wants people to start taking her seriously.

The most likely outcome of this situation is that we’ll see Britney lose her children and continue to make a public spectacle of herself. And that’s just sad and predictable.

It might be better for her kids if they only see her occasionally, though. US Weekly reports that it takes days for them to recover after their visits with her.

Thanks to Splash News for the header photo.