Britney Spears and husband Kevin Federline at the Billboard Music Awards last year. Photograph: Frazer Harrison/Getty
Imogen Tilden, arts editor
Ending months of feverered speculation, it is with relief we learn that Britney Spears is pregnant. An announcement on her official website spills the beans: "The time has finally come to share the wonderful news that we are expecting our first child together."
Phew. And we thought she was just eating too much pasta.
This news puts the finishing touch on the former teenage star's reinvention as trailer trash queen. Her first marriage lasted a grand total of 55 hours, with this, her second, she gained two step-children, a smoking and junk food habit, and a stylist who must really really really hate her. Was it only five years ago she was the world's most famous virgin?
Still, the Britney
breast-watchers out there (and believe me, there are a lot of them) will have a field day. Pregnancy, particularly in the early months, generally
increases a woman's breasts by several sizes.
