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"Perhaps we should have waited to announce until we were further along," said the message, which was posted to Spears' Instagram account last Saturday and attributed to her and her partner, Sam Asghari. “However, we were overly excited to share the good news.”
When Spears, 40, said she was pregnant, her announcement was seen by many not only as glad tidings, but also as a declaration of agency after being freed from a conservatorship that had governed her life since she was in her 20s.
That arrangement began in 2008, amid concerns over her mental health and potential substance abuse, when a judge in California granted oversight of her personal life and finances to her father, Mr James Spears.
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