With a group of assistants at her beck and call, and an unstoppable savvy management team that the fiercest dogs in Hollywood can’t touch, Britney is once again armed with the ammunition she needs to rise through the ranks of her personal troubles, where, just earlier this year, she saw her world slowly unraveling. It’s true that Britney Spears is once again emerging as new and improved, thanks in part to her new and appropriately titled album “Circus,” and her manager, Larry Rudolph, who has reunited with Brit Brit. 

It looks as though the once troubled Britney is on the mend. It was barely a week ago that the world got to see a glimpse of Kevin Federline’s ex lighting the Nokia Center Christmas Tree in Los Angeles with her two sons by her side, Sean Preston and Jayden James, quite a far cry from her shenanigans earlier this year that cost her the hair on her head, custody of her kids and personal finances that were relinquished to her father. But, when the queen of pop was rushed to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation and her dealings with the questionable Sam Lutfi exploded, making headlines in the delish celeb-driven People magazine, OK! and In Touch, some said it definitely put her mental health in question. 

But maybe a leopard can change its spots. Especially if that cat’s name is Britney Spears. It looks as though the “new and improved” pop princess has traded in the old escapades for healthier new stints like Christmas caroling with Ellen DeGeneres and celebrating an alcohol-free birthday bash and album release party at Tenjune, where no bottles of alcohol were permitted at the tables. (However, this didn’t matter much to partygoers who saw the club morphed into a small circus for the night, literally, with popcorn machines that said "Britney Spears,” jugglers and gymnasts freely roaming throughout the space.) 

For now, all eyes are on Britney. And she has got plenty of fans rooting for her, including Lance Bass who had this to say about what an amazing job she’s doing with her comeback and how he’s so proud. Well, Bass may just be onto something. It looks like this year’s going to end on a high note for Spears as “Circus” just earned the title of No. 1 album in the country.