When K-Fed popped the question, Spears had a lawyer draw up an airtight prenuptial agreement to protect her assets in the chance of divorce. It took so long, and paparazzi were so interested in getting the details that Britney decided to hold a non-binding ceremony to get them off their backs.
Their first wedding was a sham until they were officially married on October 6th, 2004, in a secret ceremony, which could only occur after Kevin signed the extensive prenup that Spears’s legal team had slaved away on.
K-Fed
While rehearsing for the "In the Zone" tour, Spears met and became romantically attached with Kevin Federline, a backup dancer for pop band LFO. In July of 2004, while she was recovering, the couple announced that they would be married.
They had known each other for three months, and the relationship came with plenty of issues. Federline had just broken up with actress Shar Jackson – while she was pregnant with their second child. The tabloids had a field day, piling negative attention on the couple, and it was nowhere near the end of the problems for Spears.
An Unconventional Wedding
Spears and Federline tied the knot on September 18th, 2004. It was a weird day for everybody. There were a total of twenty-seven guests, who had all showed up thinking it was an engagement party, not the actual wedding ceremony. After the short ceremony and dinner, the entire party went to a local club, wearing matching sweatsuits.
Federline wore one that read “The Pimp,” while his half of the wedding party had the words “The Pimps.” As it turns out, they weren't actually married that day.
On the Little Screen
Less than a year into their marriage, Spears and Federline starred in a five-episode reality show called "Britney & Kevin: Chaotic." Britney had lots of footage of her daily life before her injury and her preparations for her "In the Zone" tour while she was dating and engaged to Kevin.
This footage formed the show's basis, and more footage was added from after they were married. For the entire run of the show, it drew huge viewer numbers, but for pretty much all the wrong reasons.
You Both Want to Watch and Don't
"Britney & Kevin: Chaotic" was explicit. Very explicit. The couple went into ridiculous detail about their bedroom activities and even made out on-camera. Big fans of the star couldn't stop watching, but people tuning in on a whim, as well as TV reviewers, thought the opposite.
Phrases such as “horrifying train wreck” and “an insult to common sense and decency” appeared in reviews of the show. Perhaps due to embarrassment, the couple has stayed mum about their reaction to the show until 2013. Britney finally revealed her thoughts on the show: “The worst thing I've ever done in my career.”