Spears announced the pregnancy in an Instagram post on April 11, saying, “So I took a pregnancy test…and uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…I’m having a baby.” The news came five months after a Los Angeles judge dissolved a longtime guardian of Spears’ father—an arrangement the singer said kept her from removing the contraceptive IUD despite her desire to have more children. was stopped.
In their post on Saturday, Spears and Asgari said they “will continue to try to expand our beautiful family … We kindly ask for privacy during this difficult moment.” Spears said in her post announcing her pregnancy that she would lie down less during the pregnancy to avoid the paparazzi, and that she had previously suffered from perinatal depression, which she described as “absolutely terrifying.”
She is already a mother to two teenage sons, Sean and Jaden, with her ex-husband. Kevin Federline,
Asgari and Spears met in 2016, when they co-starred in a music video for their single “Slumber Party”.
After announcing her engagement late last year, Spears began referring to her 28-year-old partner as her “husband.”
At the time Spears announced she was pregnant, Asgari said in a separate Instagram post that “fatherhood is something I’ve always looked forward to and I don’t take it lightly. It’s the most important thing ever.”