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Aside from her plans to marry boyfriend Sam
Asghari, 27, it's unclear how she will use that freedom. Spears
has given no interviews for three years, has not performed since
October 2018, and is only rarely seen in public.
The "Overprotected" singer, who turns 40 on Dec. 2, has
expressed anxiety about the future.
"I've waited so long to be free from the situation I'm in and
now that it's here I'm scared to do anything because I'm afraid
I'll make a mistake," Spears wrote in an Instagram posting
https://www.instagram.
com/p/CVENG4JPYDv on Oct. 15.
Fans - 36 million on Instagram - are hoping for a new album or a
tour. But that may take time, if it happens at all.
Celebrity website TMZ on Friday quoted unnamed sources as saying
Spears wanted to get back into the recording studio and make new
music but that no firm plans had been made.
Her representatives in the industry have declined comment on
potential future plans.
"I'm staying clear of the business which is all I've ever known
my whole life... which is why this is so very confusing for me,"
Spears wrote on Instagram in October.
Laden with videos of Spears dancing alone in her luxury Los
Angeles-area mansion, the singer's daily Instagram postings have
been her main point of contact with fan and the outside world.
In messages crammed with emojis, Spears also models old and new
outfits, poses semi-nude, and posts quotes ranging from the
inspirational to the feisty.
Spears was placed under the conservatorship in 2008 after a
mental health breakdown. Whatever health issues she had or still
has have never been revealed. She has called the conservatorship
abusive and repeatedly lamented being betrayed by her mother
Lynne, father Jamie and sister Jamie Lynn.
Jamie Spears has said through attorneys that he helped his
daughter rehabilitate her career and always acted in her best
interest.
A no-holds barred TV interview would attract a huge audience but
none has been announced.
"Lord have mercy on my family's souls if I ever do an
interview," Spears wrote last month. She has also mentioned,
perhaps jokingly, the idea of writing her own book and asked
fans for a suggested title.
HOW TO SPEND IT
With a fortune of some $60 million, Spears will be able to
choose how she spends her money for the first time since 2008.
For years, even as she was performing to sold-out arenas around
the world, she was limited to a personal allowance of around
$2,000 a week, according to court documents. Until recently, she
was not allowed to drive her own car.
Travel could be high on the to-do list. In the past six months,
Spears has spent time in Hawaii, French Polynesia, and an
unidentified tropical private island, flying by private jet. In
French Polynesia she took a flying lesson.
She has also posted about her love of horse riding, and going to
church.
Marriage - her third - to personal trainer Asghari will have to
wait until a prenuptial agreement can be sorted out, although
Spears wrote earlier this week that Donatella Versace was
already making her wedding dress.
The singer told the Los Angeles judge overseeing her case in
June that she wants to have more children. She has two sons, now
in their teens, with ex-husband Kevin Federline who has majority
custody.
Spears has said she is already being deluged with scripts for TV
and film treatments about her life, although she wasn't pleased
about it.
"Aren't I supposed to play the role in my own life?" she said in
a video in October, of the suggestions of who could play her.
"I'm not dead. What are they thinking?"
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien)
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