Britney Spears and her partner Sam Asghari. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)
Britney Spears fans across the globe are screaming, shouting and celebrating till the world ends after the pop star announced she is pregnant with her third child.
Taking to – where else? – Instagram, the …Baby One More Time hitmaker revealed that she had been gaining weight and decided to take a pregnancy test.
“So I got a pregnancy test… and uhhhhh well… I am having a baby,” she wrote.
“Obviously won’t be going out as much due to the paps getting their money shot of me like they unfortunately already have…”
As well as teasing a secret marriage to fiancé Sam Asghari – who Spears referred to as ‘husband’ in her Instagram post – she also opened up about her past experiences with perinatal depression.
“I have to say [perinatal depression] is absolutely horrible,” she revealed. “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.”
Britney Spears has two sons, Sean (16) and Jayden (15), who she shares with her ex-husband Kevin Federline.
The pop star met Asghari while filming a music video in 2016 and they soon began dating. However, her controversial conservatorship – from which she was finally freed last year – prevented the pair from marrying or starting a family together.
Fans of the pop star and overall goddess were quick to shower her with love, congratulations and well-wishes – all the fact that she made the announcement 22 years since she first released Oops!… I Did It Again had not gone unnoticed.
One fan summed it up best by writting: “I couldn’t be happier for her, she’s finally getting all the love and happiness she deserves.”
britney spears released “oops i did it again” on April 11, 2000 and 22 years later, she announced shes pregnant again. coincidence? 👁️
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) April 11, 2022
Me seeing that Britney Spears is pregnant after spending years on birth control bc her conservatorship wouldn’t allow her to have more kids. pic.twitter.com/hZZxGba0A9
— 23 days til yeeterus | they/them ♿ (@tee_spoonie) April 11, 2022
Britney Spears pregnant, that’s the tweet!!! pic.twitter.com/SCNmOegYZd
— Fan Account (@britneycharts) April 11, 2022
Britney Spears casually announcing she’s pregnant in the middle of a rant about food babies is the best pregnancy announcement I’ve read 👶🏻 pic.twitter.com/W4SedQbP0i
— Naomi (@naomaccia) April 11, 2022
Britney Spears is pregnant, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are getting married, everybody’s talking about Holly Valance. If the 2000s are going to continue repeating themselves like this can we skip past the Rebecca Loos tugging off a pig part?
— SHANE REACTION (@imshanereaction) April 11, 2022
Britney Spears:
Free ✅
Engaged ✅
Pregnant ✅I couldn’t be happier for her, she’s finally getting all the love and happiness she deserves.
— valeria 🌹 (@barpst) April 11, 2022
Britney Spears being able to get pregnant again after having that right taken away from her for over a decade is really really awesome
— Lauren McKenzie (@TheMcKenziest) April 11, 2022
happy britney spears is pregnant day to all who celebrate
— Sydney Leathers (@sydneyelainexo) April 11, 2022
good evening to future parents britney spears and sam asghari only
— G (@oneofthosefaces) April 11, 2022
Genuinely happy for Britney Spears.
All she wanted was to live her happy life with a husband and another baby without anybody or anything giving her a hard time.
After all these years, all her dreams have come true❤️
— Pop Tingz (@ThePopTingzz) April 11, 2022
BRITNEY SPEARS GOT A BUN IN THE OVEN TURN IT UPPPPP pic.twitter.com/6Q9DolzSva
— Kristen (not stewart) (@cheatmanced) April 11, 2022
Britney Spears is pregnant. So happy for her.
No woman should have their reproductive choices controlled.#LetBritneyLive pic.twitter.com/Nf2vVCY257
— ClockOutWars (@clockoutwars) April 11, 2022
Britney Spears is pregnant!!!!! I’m going to be an guncle pic.twitter.com/eQQDBl7H9o
— ✨ (@heyjaeee) April 11, 2022
Meanwhile, on Instagram, Britney Spears fans were commenting in their hundreds, exclaiming “baby one more time”, “OMG Britney” and, of course, “YESSSSS QUEEN”.
Longtime friend Paris Hilton was also among those so share well-wishes, saying: “Congratulations sis!! I’m so excited for you!!