Rejoice: Britney Spears is pregnant. Britney Spears is pregnant! The pop star, recently freed from a 13-year conservatorship headed by her father, announced on Instagram that what she thought was a little post-vacation weight gain is in fact a child.
“Uhhhhh well…I am having a baby,” she said, after joking that her partner, Sam Asghari, claimed it was just food. “I obviously won’t be going out as much due to the paps getting their money shot of me like they unfortunately already have.”
Besides the usual excitement around celebrity pregnancies, there’s an added sense of justice around Spears’s. During a leaked address to the judge presiding over her conservatorship, she claimed that she wasn’t allowed to marry or have a child. “I want to be able to get married and have a baby,” Spears told the court. “I was told right now in the conservatorship I am not able to get married or have a baby.”
She had requested having her IUD taken out “so I could start trying to have another baby, but this so-called team won’t let me go to the doctor to take it out because they don’t want me to have any more children.” (Her father, who was in charge of her conservatorship, has denied the accusation.)
Spears took a moment in her birth announcement to highlight something she’d gone through when she carried her now-teenage sons, Jayden and Sean, whom she had with her ex-husband Kevin Federline. “[I]t’s hard because when I was pregnant I had perinatal depression,” she wrote. “I have to say it is absolutely horrible…women didn’t talk about it back then…some people considered it dangerous if a woman complained like that with a baby inside her…but now women talk about it everyday…thank Jesus we don’t have to keep that pain a reserved proper secret. … This time I will be doing yoga every day !!! Spreading lots of joy and love !!!”
In this caption and others since early March, she referred to Asghari as her “husband” but has not confirmed whether they’re married.
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