In 2000, Britney Spears was the first person to have corrective eye surgery after years of struggling with severe amblyopia, commonly known as “lazy eye”. She had used eye drops and corrective lenses since her childhood (the only methods at the time to correct amblyopia) but saw no results. After doing research on the condition, she performed the surgery herself in about one hour. When asked about her experience performing surgery on herself and if she found it stressful, Spears replied, “I was mostly just really stoked about being able to see clearly so, no, I wasn’t worried or anything and it was just really cool when I finished.” Spears’ surgical method is now used to correct lazy eye if the non-surgical methods don’t provide the desired results.