Dec. 2: A peek at Britney Spears' house on her birthday

On this day 32 years ago -- Dec. 2, 1981 -- a little bundle of joy named Britney Spears came howling into the world.

To mark that auspicious day, we're taking a look at the house that Britney Spears bought last year in Thousand Oaks, a suburban community in the Valley outside Los Angeles.

The single-story Mediterranean-style house, built in 2010, has 8,500 square feet of living space on a double lot of about an acre and a half. She bought it from retired hockey player Russ Courtnall and his wife, Paris Vaughan, an actress and the daughter of jazz legend Sarah Vaughan. They'd listed it at $8.5 million, but the price she paid is unavailable.