BRITNEY Spears’ aunt Leigh Ann Spears learned she is pregnant on Good Morning Britain today as she congratulated the pop star.
Britney, 40, announced the incredible news in a long Instagram post last night but Leigh Ann was “taking a nap” and missed the news.
GMB’s America correspondent Noel Phillips stunned hosts Richard Madeley and Ranvir Singh today when he said he called Leigh Ann and accidentally broke the story to her.
He said: “I thought she was aware but she wasn’t aware, she was having a nap when the news went out.”
Leigh Ann said she was delighted and also revealed her true feelings about Britney being placed in her dad Jamie’s conservatorship in 2008, calling her a “survivor”.
Speaking to GMB from her home in Louisiana, Leigh Ann said: “Congratulations Britney!
“It is a happy ending, to go through the darkest days and feel so alone and so manipulated.
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“Living the dream that you paid for all along, great fiance (Sam), great supporter that he is, new baby on the way, cannot wait, so excited.”
She added: “She’s still fighting. She is not gona be shut down, she’s gona make sure her voice is loud, like most survivors do, she is empowering men and women alike who have been put in situations they can’t control.”
Britney said last night fiance Sam Asghari had teased her about being “food pregnant” as she referenced a recent holiday, writing: “I lost so much weight to go on my Maui trip only to gain it back.”
She posted: “I thought ‘Geez … what happened to my stomach???’ My husband said ‘No you’re food pregnant silly!’
“So I got a pregnancy test … and uhhhhh well … I am having a baby… 4 days later I got a little more food pregnant. It’s growing.”
The pop superstar, who has struggled with mental health issues after being hounded by the paparazzi, said she “won’t be going out much” following her announcement.
She has two children, sons Sean Preston and Jayden James, whom she shares with ex-husband Kevin Federline.
A 13-year conservatorship which had controlled Spears’ life was terminated by the Los Angeles Superior Court in November last year.
She was placed under the complex legal arrangement in 2008 amid substance abuse and mental health issues, and said it had prevented her having more children.
She followed up her original post with one of a flower alongside which she wrote: “May God’s grace find you always.”
