Britney Spears pregnant with 3rd child at 40

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You are comparing how she looks in a professionally produced video where her movements are rehearsed to how she looks in something she has recorded herself though

Have you seen the latest Instagram?

@nolongersurprised

You are comparing how she looks in a professionally produced video where her movements are rehearsed to how she looks in something she has recorded herself though

Have you seen the latest Instagram?

yes. She has been doing similar videos for years on instagram.

Give her a break, this is good news surely? In America, anyone with enough cash can buy a surrogate baby, I believe Amber Heard who is being accused of disturbing behaviour, has done just this. How many women with mental health issues are prevented from conceiving? Not many.

Britney seems like a gentle, loving person, her partner seems responsible, he's stuck by her through all of this, they're cushioned by money. Britney and the baby will be ok.

There's so many children we don't hear about that are in a worse position.

It seems like people view her posts through different lenses. Some people see Britney dancing and messing about. I see repetitive, almost self-soothing swaying and fixed facial expressions.

None of which means she won’t have a loved, cared for baby but IMO there are mental health vulnerabilities so I hope she’s well looked after.

I also don’t think people on here and on her Instagram comments are necessarily just being bitchy. It’s a natural human response to get that sense of “something wrong” when someone is rocking/swaying repetitively with limited and stereotypical facial responses. It’s not, “ha ha, look at how fucked up she is” but “Is Britney Ok?”

@nolongersurprised

If you look at her last Instagram post it’s 58 seconds of her swaying/rocking in various changes of clothes. Her smile is the same with each outfit. The repetitive actions are the same. This isn’t the dancing of a vibrant 40 year old pop star challenging stereotypes about 40 year old norms and behaviour.

Compare it to If You Seek Amy from 13 years ago. Her look is the same with heavy eyeliner and bleached hair but her eyes have spark and purpose in them in the video and they don’t now. She still looks incredible - both then and now but something looks amiss now.

A couple of the more hastily deleted posts were weird close-ups of/weird ramblings about her breasts, which struck me as really odd.

Odd to use the If U Seek Amy video as comparison at the time when it was filmed about 9 months after her 5150 psychiatric hold and mental breakdown, she'd just been put into the conservatorship and fans at the time wouldn't stop talking about how sluggish and dead behind the eyes she looked.

and fans at the time wouldn't stop talking about how sluggish and dead behind the eyes she looked

And they look so much worse now.

I remember the discussion at the time so re watched it recently, she still looks more - reactive, I think is the word I mean - now than then. But also physically looks stunning in both.

Sorry - then than now! It’s late here.

@nolongersurprised but it just seems to me that people are projecting a narrative onto Britney that has nothing to do with what they are actually presented with and not believing the woman herself. If Britney ever truly needed mental health support it was back in 2008, and at the time she even said she was miserable: 'I'm going to be paying for a long time. It's bad and I'm sad'. But the headlines all shouted about how she was 'back' and her father had 'saved' her. She now says she is happy and healthy and again noone believes her because they see what they want to see. When Britney is looking pretty and performing like a perfect poster everyone says she is well and happy and it isn't true. When she's having a blast looking a mess and flailing around in stupid videos, noone believes her own words that she's OK. I think the poor woman deserves to have her own words believed for once, considering everything that has been presented about her for the last 13 years has been shown to be a massive lie.

@nolongersurprised

and fans at the time wouldn't stop talking about how sluggish and dead behind the eyes she looked

And they look so much worse now.

I remember the discussion at the time so re watched it recently, she still looks more - reactive, I think is the word I mean - now than then. But also physically looks stunning in both.

Don't you think the fact that she looks worse to you now at a time when professionals say that she can take care of her own affairs compared with then when they said she couldn't suggests your view you of her Instagram posts isn't very reliable indicator.

Lovely news for anyone to be pregnant but I do worry about her mental health and if she has enough support around her to cope with this. She's estranged from all of her family and I don't see any friends on her Instagram
Her Instagram makes me feel really uncomfortable like she isn't really there, the constant posing and swaying, she honestly looks like a tiger in the zoo who is trapped and just keeps repeating the same motions. I thought once she was free of the conservatorship we would see more normal pictures, day to day interactions, but every post is in the same room, doing the same thing or stripping naked to apparently show she is in control. It's utterly bizarre and I can't help but think although the conservatorship became mismanaged, I think she may need some level of someone else being in control or having a high level of support to make sure she is safe and well.
I really do worry for her and the unborn child

You want someone else to be "in charge" of a grown woman because some of her instagram posts are a bit odd?
My mate got to drink himself to death in a council flat because he's an adult with agency, I reckon she's okay! I also think people are quite sheltered and don't realise just how badly ill and fucked up many people are who are left to struggle on alone, generally with no money either.

@Scianel

You want someone else to be "in charge" of a grown woman because some of her instagram posts are a bit odd? My mate got to drink himself to death in a council flat because he's an adult with agency, I reckon she's okay! I also think people are quite sheltered and don't realise just how badly ill and fucked up many people are who are left to struggle on alone, generally with no money either.

I'm sorry, are you saying that because Joe Public does not have the right support that we should ignore indicators of poor mental health when we see it and heaven forbid, suggest they need support?

Yes, her posts are odd, confusing and don't always make sense, and to me if that was a friend posting I would be very concerned for their well being.

*Lovely news for anyone to be pregnant but I do worry about her mental health and if she has enough support around her to cope with this. She's estranged from all of her family and I don't see any friends on her Instagram

She's in a long term relationship and is engaged or perhaps married. She also has plenty of money to buy support. A lot more than most people.

She also has plenty of money to buy support

Money doesn’t = ok. If she has got mental health issues and doesn’t think she does then she won’t think she needs the support…

By all accounts she is sweet and kind and never has a bad word to say about anyone. Her son’s seem to have as good a relationship as they could with her considering how little contact she was allowed by her family. As far as I’m aware Kevin Federline was not the one blocking visitation and has never publicly questioned her parenting. As pps have said she can afford a lot of help with practical things.

I personally think there are people who seem a lot more together and mentally well who are a danger to their children because of their cruelty. She is probably very vulnerable due to her trauma, but she certainly doesn’t seem callous and cruel like the kinds of parents who put their kids to work before they even reach puberty and proceed to milk them for every penny and proximity to fame that they can.

Here’s hoping for the best for her and all her children.

but it just seems to me that people are projecting a narrative onto Britney that has nothing to do with what they are actually presented with

No, I disagree. People both on here and on her Instagram comments are disturbed by the repetitive swaying and fixed and stereotypical facial responses.

She’s not “having a blast and flailing around” at all, there’s no expression of joy or enthusiasm.

Humans are innately in tune with body language and micro expressions and about half of the insta comments are expressing concern.

There was a post a while ago of her cradling a doll which unnerved me as well. Still, I agree that she seems gentle and kind and there will be truck loads of support for her.

I went back to her grid after seeing all these posts and yes she does rock when she’s posing in clothes but I think this comes across as what she thinks is modelling the clothes. It looks like she doesn’t want to just stand still and pose in a static shot (like a photo) so she is moving around. I think she feels a little awkward and not sure how to stand. She often pulls the clothing down a little and touches her hair, which is maybe a little nervous/self conscious but enjoying posing. I also saw plenty of videos of different dance moves, yoga and just free dance where she is just moving her body around to a beat. She’s often in a dance studio, I think she just likes to dance for fun and fitness? She isn’t doing routine TikTok dances, maybe that’s more what we are used to rather than J’aime style freestyle 🤣

the repetitive swaying and fixed and stereotypical facial responses

That's more like neurodivergence than mental illness though.

I dont know if a lot of posters here realise how disablist they are being towards autistic spectrum conditions with what they're posting. I'm not armchair diagnosing Britney Spears with that but if someone wants to be kooky, or childlike, or spin repetitively, or rock back and forth, so what? It doesn't mean their mental health is necessarily poor.

@nolongersurprised

If you look at her last Instagram post it’s 58 seconds of her swaying/rocking in various changes of clothes. Her smile is the same with each outfit. The repetitive actions are the same. This isn’t the dancing of a vibrant 40 year old pop star challenging stereotypes about 40 year old norms and behaviour.

Compare it to If You Seek Amy from 13 years ago. Her look is the same with heavy eyeliner and bleached hair but her eyes have spark and purpose in them in the video and they don’t now. She still looks incredible - both then and now but something looks amiss now.

She said in one of her posts a while ago that over the years she had her little video camera or phone set up or whatever it was and would make music videos for herself and dress up and do the kind of thing that she's doing now. It's probably something that gave her comfort and was her 'thing' and is just a habit of this point.

@nolongersurprised

but it just seems to me that people are projecting a narrative onto Britney that has nothing to do with what they are actually presented with

No, I disagree. People both on here and on her Instagram comments are disturbed by the repetitive swaying and fixed and stereotypical facial responses.

She’s not “having a blast and flailing around” at all, there’s no expression of joy or enthusiasm.

Humans are innately in tune with body language and micro expressions and about half of the insta comments are expressing concern.

There was a post a while ago of her cradling a doll which unnerved me as well. Still, I agree that she seems gentle and kind and there will be truck loads of support for her.

I agree with this. I sense something off and I don’t care if it’s not politically corrrect to say so. Some MN users are trying to deny reality. My reality is that her eyes look really sad and manic; that’s what I see and feel from her posts.

Why mention her age? What's noteworthy about being pregnant at 40?

I think she's a lovely person but the look in her eyes on instagram is painful to watch. Hope she's ok and she has a happy life, she deserves it.

I wish her the best and hopes she has lot’s of positive support around to help her.