Britney Spears revealed she’s pregnant in a Monday Instagram post, 10 months after she told a judge she wanted to remove her IUD to have more children.
During a June 2021 hearing, Spears said she was forced to stay on birth control under her 13-year conservatorship despite her wishes to grow her family.
“I would like to get married and have a baby. But this so-called team won’t let me go to the doctor to take it out because they don’t want me to have children,” Spears told the judge. She has two teenage sons with ex-husband Kevin Federline.
In November 2021, a judge ended Spears’ conservatorship, giving her the freedom to make her own birth-control choices again.
When a person stops taking birth control, they can’t get pregnant right away, Insider previously reported. Long-acting reversible contraceptives like copper IUDs, injectables, and birth control pills delay a user’s return to fertility because they affect their hormones and vaginal environment.
A November 2020 cohort study from researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark, Boston University, and Harvard University looked at various long-acting birth control methods to quantify the average number of menstrual cycles it takes to be able to conceive after birth control. They studied 17,954 people.
Using hormone-free condoms and diaphragms as controls in the study, the researchers found people who removed their hormonal or non-hormonal IUDs went through two menstrual cycles before they got pregnant.
