(CBS) The latest headache for Britney Spears is a video of her a few years ago belching, eating chicken wings and complaining that she'd missed out on life by being a pop star.

The video is being circulated virally via the popular Web site YouTube, and is getting a plethora of hits.

The pop diva, or should we say, former pop diva, is said to be working on a new album, but the question surrounding her is simple: Can she make a comeback from this video and numerous other public embarrassments? Among them: the widely seen photos of her driving with her baby in her lap, potentially putting the child in harm's way.

On The Early Show Monday, Bradley Jacobs, senior editor of Us Weekly magazine, predicted Spears will be able to resurrect her career.

"She lost control of her image a long time ago," Jacobs told co-anchor Tracy Smith. "When she first (rose to stardom), in the late '90s, early 2000s, she put out four albums in five years. In the media's presence, she was always very controlled and very protected.

"But she stopped working a couple of years ago, in the summer of 2004. Then the attention went to her personal life. And since then, it's just been one bad publicity moment after another. Her career has become really unhinged. The YouTube video is just the latest example of that."

In the video, Spears is heard saying, "I feel like I've been missing out on life … like things, and things going on. Like, I feel like I'm behind or something. I know that sounds so weird, but I do."

"There are a lot of embarrassing moments in this YouTube segment," Jacobs observes, "but also some moments that pull at your heartstrings, (such as) when she says she's missing out.

"This was filmed in the spring of 2004, right before she pulled out of her tour due to an injury, and stopped working. She stopped going to the studio and focused instead on her relationship with Kevin Federline, also known as 'K-Fed.' She married him, had a baby. Now, she's pregnant with her second baby.

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