Britney Spears Confirms Pregnancy

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AFP
Tuesday, April 19, 2005



LOS ANGELES (AFP) - US pop princess Britney Spears confirmed that she is pregnant with her first child, ending weeks of frenzied speculation over whether she was launching a new career as a mother.

"The time has finally come to share our wonderful news that we are expecting our first child together," Spears and her husband of seven months, Kevin Federline, announced on the singer's website.

"There are reports that I was in the hospital this weekend, Kevin and I just want everyone to know that all is well. Thank you for your thoughts and prayers, Love Britney and Kevin."
Spears, 23, and Federline, a 27 year-old former backup dancer in Spears' stage troupe, married secretly in September after a whirlwind romance.

Media have speculated for weeks that the entertainer was expecting, but she had refused to comment on her family status.

No further details of the couple's plans were available, but reports have said Spears is about four months pregnant.
While the baby will be Spears' first, it will be Federline's third child. He has two small children by his ex-girlfriend, actress Shar Jackson, making Spears a step-mother twice over.

Spears and Federline have been the subject of intense media interest since they began dating in April last year and married in a surprise ceremony on September 18.

Following their wedding, Spears was forced to rebuff reports that the marriage was a sham, while one magazine published details of what it said was a tough pre-nuptial agreement, under which Federline was limited in what he could claim from the millionaire singer in case of a divorce.

Soon after her wedding, Spears announced she was taking time off work to "chill out" and think about starting a family.
"I am going to be focusing on three main areas of my life for the immediate future: myself; my husband, Kevin; and starting a family," she wrote on her website in November.

To counter the media frenzy, the couple announced last week that they have agreed to make a reality television show in which they plan to document their lives together in their own terms and using their own private video footage.

"From the day that Kevin and I met, there have been constant rumours and inaccurate speculation about our lives together," Spears said.

"I feel that last year the tabloids ran my life and I am really excited about showing my fans what really happened rather than all the stories, which have been misconstrued by journalists in the past," she said.

The fly-on-the-wall reality show was expected to premiere later this year on the American UPN cable network, but it was not immediately clear whether Spears' pregnancy would change those plans.