“Don’t cry” Britney!
Britney Spears burst into tears dancing in a video on her Instagram just before uploading photos celebrating her estranged sons’ birthdays.
“It’s been a while since I cried in front of the camera 🥲!!!” Spears captioned the video which made several fans concerned about her mental health. “It’s not a breakdown motherfucker, it’s a release I’ve been needing for a long time!!!”
She added: “Mental experience for sure!!! I think I should do more like that 🌹🌹🌹!!! Psss… roar.”
The post didn’t seem out of the ordinary for the pop star, who regularly posts videos of herself on her social media. But when Spears twirled several times in the short clip, he began to crumble and cry.
Despite claiming she was not “unlucky”, several fans were concerned for her well-being.
“This woman needs help before it’s too late,” one concerned fan responded to the post, adding: “If you love this woman, stop encouraging this behavior.”
“Oh Brit. You really need help. And no, I’m not a hater for saying that on the contrary, we want her well-being and she needs help coming through her ordeal. I have the feeling she has no one,” a second person agrees.
“This is not normal behavior folks… she’s been through so much and it clearly looks like she’s going to lose it. This is sad 😢,” a netizen added.
But many fans praised Spears for showing her raw emotions and letting go of her feelings.
“If we don’t let our tears escape, they pile up and are stored as pain. I am in awe of how you process your emotions so gracefully,” said one.
“Crying is all about spiritual letting go and letting go. It is a powerful form of healing my love. Stay healed. You are so admirable 💕,” wrote another.
Spears’s emotional post came hours before she shared a post to wish her estranged sons – Sean Preston, 17, and Jayden James, 16 – a happy birthday amid tensions in the family.
“Love you both so much!!!” she wrote in the post along with photos with her sons, which she shares with ex-husband Kevin Federline. She added: “These photos are from last year!!!”
Federline revealed last month that their children have chosen not to see their mother for months, because they are ashamed of the naked content she has posted on the internet since her guardianship was terminated.
Notably, their children were not present at Spears’ wedding to Sam Asghari in June.
Spears’s emotional post also comes after the response she received earlier this week for apparently body-shaming Christina Aguilera and her dancers. She wrote in a post that she would have looked extremely petite on stage if she had Aguilera’s dancers. Aguilera even stopped following Spears after the drama.
The singer defended herself, saying that it was not her intention to criticize people’s bodies.
“I was definitely not critical of Christina’s beautiful body, it is what it is!!! I flew once to see her show and the main thing that struck me was the difference between our people on stage!!!” she insisted in a Tuesday Instagram post.
“I never mentioned Christina, look at my post!!! I was inspired by her show and she is a beautiful woman with power… Thanks @xtina for inspiring me!!!”