Is Britney Spears married to Sam Asghari? Singer keeps referring to him as her 'husband'

Spears described her Iranian personal trainer partner as her 'husband' when announcing her pregnancy this week

Britney Spears and Sam Asghari at the Glaad Media Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in April 2018. Getty Images

Britney Spears and Sam Asghari, with her sons Sean Federline and Jayden James Federline, attend a basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Golden State Warriors in November 2017. Getty Images

Britney Spears and Sam Asghari arrive at the premiere of Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood at the TCL Chinese Theatre in July 2019. AFP

Britney Spears and Sam Asghari attend the 2019 Daytime Beauty Awards. AFP

Sam Asghari wearing Zuhair Murad's Rise from the Ashes T-shirt in August 2020. Sam Asghari / Instagram

Sam Asghari in Britney Spears's 2016 Slumber Party video. YouTube

Sam Asghari and Camila Cabello in Fifth Harmony's Work From Home video in February 2016. YouTube

Britney Spears and Sam Asghari in January 2020. Sam Asghari / Instagram

Sam Asghari as a child, with his parents. Instagram / Sam Asghari

Sam Asghari attends the Can You Keep A Secret? premiere in August 2019. Getty Images

Britney Spears and Sam Asghari announced their engagement in September, after five years together.

However, fans are now speculating that they have had a short engagement and had a private wedding, as Spears keeps referring to Asghari as her "husband" in Instagram posts.

Revealing her pregnancy news, Spears wrote in a post on Monday: "I thought, 'Geez … what happened to my stomach?

"My husband said: 'No, you’re food pregnant, silly'."

Four days previously, on April 8, Spears posted an image of Asghari on holiday with the caption: "Here’s me shooting pics of my HUSBAND !!!! I have to do big letters cause that what my sister has always done on her gram."

The post reads like a marriage announcement, but she then went on to say, "For the first time in my life I can actually be that girl who can act stuck up and talk to others about how I’m getting married … Acceptance and freedom are my key factors in my life at the moment and also loving this yummy man who I love so much!"

If they are married, Spears is yet to share any images from the ceremony. She has not yet spoken about her wedding plans publicly.

She had spoken frankly about her desire to have another child. In November, after her 13-year-long conservatorship finally ended, Spears posted a black-and-white Instagram photo of a baby standing on their toes, writing in the caption: “I’m thinking about having another baby !!! I wonder if this one is a girl … she’s on her toes reaching for something … that’s for sure!!!!⁣”

This will be Spears's third child and first with Asghari. The Toxic singer had her first two sons — Sean Preston, 16, and Jayden James, 15 — with Kevin Federline.

Who is Sam Asghari?

Asghari is a fitness professional, who has modelled in the past. He met Spears on the set of her Slumber Party video in 2016.

He was born in the Iranian capital Tehran, but moved to the US to be with his father when he was 12. Due to the US immigration process, his family was not able to move together.

"I left three of my sisters behind, my mum behind. My dad was out here in America and I hadn’t seen him in about five years or so. It was definitely a culture shock, coming out here with a completely different language to speak," he told Forbes in a 2021 interview.

In a separate interview, he told Men's Health magazine in 2018: "I had to leave my friends and family who I was very close with, and I knew I was moving away and never coming back."

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