Britney Spears fans and friends react to singer’s pregnancy announcement

Britney Spears fans are reacting to the singer’s pregnancy announcement.

On Monday (11 April), the 40-year-old music star revealed she’s expecting a child with her partner Sam Asghari on Instagram.

The “Toxic” singer wrote that she took a pregnancy test after gaining weight following the pair’s recent vacation to Hawaii.

“I lost so much weight to go on my Maui trip only to gain it back,” Spears wrote, adding that Asghari, who she referred to as her husband after they recently secretly married, suggested she was “food pregnant”.

“So I got a pregnancy test … and uhhhhh well … I am having a baby,” she confirmed.

Spears has two children, Sean, 16, and Jayden, 15, with ex Kevin Federline, who responded to the news via his attorney.

Spears added on the Instagram post: “It’s growing!!! If two are in there … I might just lose it.”

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Soon after the announcement, many fans and friends, including Paris Hilton, shared their reactions on social media.

Spears revealed that she suffered perinatal depression when she was previously pregnant. She wrote: “I have to say it is absolutely horrible.”

However, she did note that society has changed and that it is now more common for women to talk about their struggles with perinatal depression.

“Women didn’t talk about it back then … some people considered it dangerous if a woman complained like that with a baby inside her,” Spears wrote. “But now women talk about it every day … thank Jesus we don’t have to keep that pain a reserved proper secret.”

The singer concluded the post by telling her followers and fans that she plans to do yoga every day during her pregnancy.

Spears’ pregnancy announcement comes after she recently hinted at the possibility of having more children in a post shared on Instagram last month, in which she posed topless in the sea with the caption: “Planning on having babies in Polynesia.”

The post came after Spears alleged in a Los Angeles court hearing that she was not allowed to remove her IUD implant birth control device during her 13-year conservatorship, despite wanting to have more children.