Britney Spears suffers miscarriage, a month after revealing surprise pregnancy
- ‘It is with our deepest sadness we have to announce that we have lost our miracle baby,’ the singer wrote in a joint-post with her partner Sam Asghari
- In their post on Saturday, Spears and Asghari added that they ‘will continue trying to expand our beautiful family’
Pop star Britney Spears said in an Instagram post Saturday that her surprise pregnancy, which she announced last month, had ended in miscarriage.
“It is with our deepest sadness we have to announce that we have lost our miracle baby early in the pregnancy,” the 40-year-old singer wrote in a joint-post with her partner Sam Asghari.
Spears had announced the pregnancy in an Instagram post on April 11, saying “So I got a pregnancy test … and uhhhhh well … I am having a baby.”
That news came five months after a Los Angeles judge dissolved a conservatorship long overseen by Spears’s father – an arrangement the singer said had prevented her from having a contraceptive IUD removed despite her desire for more children.
In their post on Saturday, Spears and Asghari added that they “will continue trying to expand our beautiful family … We kindly ask for privacy during this difficult moment.”
Spears had said in her post announcing her pregnancy that she would be lying low during the pregnancy to avoid paparazzi, and that she had previously suffered from perinatal depression, which she described as “absolutely horrible.”