Britney Spears is pregnant, the 40-year-old pop star announced on Instagram Monday.

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This arrangement meant Spears had very limited control over her life and the decisions she could make — including on her career, finances and health. The singer was placed under her conservatorship in 2008 after suffering from mental health issues.

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In a bombshell testimony last June, she told a Los Angeles Superior Court judge that she wanted to have another baby, but she was forced to keep an IUD in place, in accordance with her conservatorship.

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Spears is already a mom to two boys: Sean Preston Federline, 16, and Jayden James Federline, 15, from her previous marriage to Kevin Federline.

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Spears wrote Monday that she will be spending less time going out to avoid paparazzi and noted with her previous pregnancies, she suffered from perinatal depression.

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