Britney Spears

Singer Britney Spears announced she is pregnant with her third child by posting a message on Instagram on Monday. Spears, 40, not only revealed her pregnancy but also appeared to announce she has gotten married to her fiance Sam Asghari, 28, ...

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[LOS ANGELES] Britney Spears on Monday (Apr 11) announced she is pregnant with her third child, 6 months after a judge ended the controversial guardianship ...

The 40-year-old pop star had her 13-year conservatorship terminated late last year. Spears is a mother to two teen boys from an earlier marriage.

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Britney Spears said she is "having a baby" with fiancé Sam Asghari in an Instagram post Monday.

Asghari proposed to Spears two months after the conservatorship was terminated. "Thank Jesus we don’t have to keep that pain a reserved proper secret." The singer has said she was unable to make her own birth control decisions while under conservatorship, which was terminated in November.

During her successful effort to end her conservatorship, the performer had complained that the team appointed to supervise her had blocked her from having ...

James P. Spears, Ms. Spears’s father, who is known as Jamie, first petitioned the court for authority over his adult daughter’s life and finances in early 2008, citing her very public mental health struggles and possible substance abuse amid a child custody battle. In November, a judge in Los Angeles ruled that the arrangement was no longer required, granting Ms. Spears newfound control over her life. Reproductive rights advocates condemned the situation as a violation of her rights. In her Instagram post, Ms. Spears joked that Mr. Asghari — whom she now refers to as her husband — suggested that she was “food pregnant” after a trip to Hawaii. In explosive testimony last year, Ms. Spears called the conservatorship that had governed her life for 13 years “abusive,” saying the people who managed it had refused to let her get her IUD removed so she could try to have another child. “I want to be able to get married and have a baby,” Ms. Spears said last June. “I was told right now in the conservatorship I am not able to get married or have a baby.”

Announcement comes after singer was released from conservatorship she says required her to stay on birth control.

“So I got a pregnancy test ... and uhhhhh well ... I am having a baby... The announcement comes several months after Spears, 40, was released from a conservatorship arrangement that dominated her daily life for more than a decade. The couple became engaged in September last year, with Spears joking that the proposal was “way overdue”.

Los Angeles (AP) -- Britney Spears, less than five months after her conservatorship ended, confused some fans Monday when she posted on Instagram that she's ...

My husband said “No you're food pregnant silly!!!” So I got a pregnancy test ... and uhhhhh well ... I am having a baby. “I lost so much weight to go on my Maui trip only to gain it back," the pop star wrote in part Monday, accompanied by a photo of flowers and a cup of coffee. “I thought ”Geez ... what happened to my stomach???"

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Britney Spears on Monday (April 11) announced she is pregnant with her third child, six months after an LA judge ended the controversial ...

I am having a baby," the 40-year-old said on Instagram. "I got a pregnancy test... Fans had long sounded alarm that the "...Baby One More Time" singer was unhappy with her father as guardian, and in June 2021 she asked a Los Angeles judge to end the legal arrangement that had left her "traumatised." A judge in November dissolved the conservatorship long overseen by Spears' father - an arrangement the singer said had prevented her from having a contraceptive IUD removed despite her desire for more children. Jamie Spears was removed from his role in September and the conservatorship was formally dissolved in November. LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Britney Spears on Monday (April 11) announced she is pregnant with her third child, six months after an LA judge ended the controversial guardianship the pop icon said barred her from having more children.

I thought 'Geez … what happened to my stomach ???' My husband said 'No you're food pregnant silly !!!' So I got a pregnancy test … and uhhhhh well … I am having ...

“I would like to progressively move forward and I want to have the real deal, I want to be able to get married and have a baby,” Spears testified last June. “I was told right now in the conservatorship, I’m not able to get married or have a baby. In Monday’s post, the star said she will be doing her best to keep her privacy, this time around. “I obviously won’t be going out as much due to the paps getting their money shot of me like they unfortunately already have,” Spears posted. In recent posts, she has referred to Asghari as her “husband,” but has not officially said whether the couple is married yet. It is the most important job I will ever do.” Spears announced her engagement to actor Sam Asghari in September 2021.

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She added: “Every day he inspires me to be a better person and that makes me feel like the luckiest girl in the world!” "I want the biggest wedding in the world!" November 12, 2021 didn’t just mark the immediate cessation of Britney Spears’ conservatorship: It also marked a major milestone for the couple, ensuring that they would be able to follow through with their plans to marry. “I want to take my relationship to the next step," he declared. “I’ve been with this man for over a year,” she captioned a photo of the pair looking fit in front of a waterfall. Sam made good on his word in April 2019, when he was quick to speak out on the Grammy winner’s behalf after she reportedly checked into a mental health facility. Britney introduced her followers to her new beau with a photo of them cuddled up for the holiday. Brit and Sam were all smiles in September 2017 when they headed to the House of Mouse for a little summertime magic. Britney and Sam first crossed paths in 2016, when he landed a role in her music video for her song, “Slumber Party.” The “Toxic” singer opened up about the moment they clicked to CBS Radio in January 2017. Sam later shared his own remembrance of the events to Men’s Health, recalling how jazzed he was to meet the musical icon. “We were doing the scene where I was doing the walk scene through the hall to go through the door to go to the bedroom, and we were sitting there and waiting and waiting together for like 20 minutes at a time," she revealed. Britney testified to a court in June that big decisions facing the twosome, such as when to wed or whether to have children, were not always theirs to make.

She also appeared to announce her marriage to Sam Asghari as she referred to him as her "husband" in her Instagram post.

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The 40-year-old pop star had her 13-year conservatorship terminated late last year. Spears is a mother to two teen boys from an earlier marriage.

The news of the pop star's pregnancy comes months after a judge ended her 13-year conservatorship after a highly publicized legal battle with Spears' father. Spears wrote in her post that shortly after a trip to Maui with her fiancé, Sam Asghari, she started to gain weight. The singer was placed under her conservatorship in 2008 after suffering from mental health issues.

Spears also said she “won't be going out as much” due to the paparazzi. Advertisement. She opened about about having “horrible” perinatal depression in ...

The two met on the set of her “Slumber Party” video in 2016. “I lost so much weight to go on my Maui trip only to gain it back,” the pop star wrote in part Monday, accompanied by a photo of flowers and a cup of coffee. “I thought “Geez ... what happened to my stomach???” My husband said “No you’re food pregnant silly!!!” So I got a pregnancy test ... and uhhhhh well ... I am having a baby.

Stars including Paris Hilton, Iggy Azalea and Andy Cohen sent congratulatory messages to Britney Spears after the pop star announced she is pregnant with ...

“The experience of depression during pregnancy and postpartum is super common,” said Karen Tabb Dina, an associate professor in the School of Social Work at the ...

In her Instagram post on Monday, she said that she will be doing “yoga every day” during her pregnancy this time around. It also notes that people may need to try several different medications “before finding the one that improves their symptoms and has manageable side effects.” (The tool notes that it is not an official medical diagnosis and that people should talk to their doctors for further advice.) But doctors don’t always discuss or screen for symptoms of depression in pregnant people, Tabb Dina said. Studies also suggest perinatal depression might have become even more common during the pandemic, with up to 1 in 4 pregnant people experiencing depression. “Thank Jesus we don’t have to keep that pain a reserved proper secret.”

Kevin Federline wishes his ex-wife, Britney Spears, and her fiancé, Sam Asghari, well following the news that the couple are expecting their first child ...

It is the most important job i will ever do🙏” Fatherhood is something i have always looked forward to and i don’t take lightly. 👑 @BritneySpears 😍👸🏼 You are an incredible mother and cannot wait for your new baby on the way!