Britney Spears is pregnant, the 40-year-old pop star announced on Instagram Monday.
Spears wrote in her post that shortly after a trip to Maui with her fiancé, Sam Asghari, she started to gain weight. She wrote, “So I got a pregnancy test … and uhhhhh well … I am having a baby.”
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. This arrangement meant Spears had very limited control over her life and the decisions she could make — including on her career, finances and health. The singer was placed under her conservatorship in 2008 after suffering from mental health issues.
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