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Stumpy, a four-legged duckling at Warrawee Duck Farm, Copythorne, Hampshire, England, Saturday Feb. 17, 2007. A rare mutation has left the bird with two legs behind the usual two.

LOS ANGELES (AFP)
Troubled pop starlet Britney Spears took reinvention to an extreme this weekend, shaving her head to the scalp days after reportedly checking in and out of rehab, sparking media speculation that she is nearing a breakdown.
Spears took the shears to her own head in full view of the paparazzi Friday after a beautician reportedly refused to do it.

A Los Angeles TV station then showed footage of a newly shorn Spears at a local tattoo parlor getting two new pieces of body art and pictures from both stops were quickly beamed around the Internet.

Esther Tognozzi, owner of the low-priced salon, told Us Weekly that after Spears lopped off her brunette hair extensions, she "just looked in the mirror and said with tears in her eyes, 'Oh, my God, I shaved it all off. My mom is going to be so upset with me.'"

Tognozzi told the magazine she waived her normal 20-dollar fee for Spears.

"We have no idea how she found us," another salon worker told the magazine. "She just walked in and said she wanted to shave her head. Esther has been in the business for 30 years and said, 'I'm not doing that.' But Britney was set on having her head shaved so she started doing it herself."

Spears, 25, picked up the shears only days after US media reported she went to a rehab clinic in Antigua and abruptly checked herself out.

Later Friday, a Los Angeles television station showed Spears getting tattooed.

Shop employee Emily Wynne-Hughes told Us Magazine that Spears "wasn't making sense at all and you could tell she's not in a good place at all, and that she is totally freaking out."

"After she left the shop we all just looked around and said to each other, 'We just saw a huge celebrity on the verge of a nervous breakdown,'" Wynne-Hughes said.

Spears, who skyrocketed to fame as a teen in 1999 with her hit "Baby One More Time," and has since sold more than 70 million albums, put her music career on hold for two years to become a mother, and only recently returned to the recording studio.

She has appeared regularly in the tabloid press over the past few months since filing for divorce in November from her husband, dancer Kevin Federline, who is the father of her two children.

Spears's post-marriage party life has been documented in pictures of her nightlife in New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Las Vegas, famously without panties.