What is With Britney's New Look?

When we first came across this picture, we could have sworn it was Angelina Jolie toting one of her many refugee children. But it's actually a different star, one whose personal life has been even more tumultuous of late. Britney Spears, who can't go five minutes without bawling on TV, banishing her deadbeat husband to the basement or dropping her infant son, was photographed looking startlingly different yesterday:

For once, The Gossip is speechless. Someone get her help!