Britney Spears deliberately tried to raise eyebrows when she claimed she had just turned ‘five years old’, according to sources, who insist the ‘incredibly smart’ singer is playing with the audience to ‘keep everyone talking’ about her .
The 43-year-old pop superstar has raised questions about her well-being in recent years with her quirky dance videos and bizarre online antics.
This week she told fans in an Instagram video: ‘It’s my birthday. I’m not turning 42 this year, I’m turning five and have to go to kindergarten tomorrow.’
The next day, she announced plans to leave Los Angeles for a permanent move to Mexico, where she celebrated her birthday, in yet another scantily clad dance video.
Despite fans’ concerns, sources claim her bizarre comments and actions are a calculated move as she is “addicted to fame.”
“Britney knows what she’s doing,” an insider exclusively told DailyMail.com. ‘She keeps the world talking about her. She is addicted to fame.
Britney Spears deliberately tried to raise eyebrows when she claimed she had just turned ‘five years old’, insiders told DailyMail.com
The insider claimed the ‘incredibly smart’ singer, 43, is playing with the audience to ‘keep everyone talking’ about her
‘She knows what happens when she talks in a different voice, when she says things off the wall and when she dances around in her underwear. People keep talking about her.’
They continued, “These journeys she has been on are not something new. She enjoys her money with her brother Brian. She bounced all over Europe and now also Mexico.”
The insider noted that Britney has used this tactic for reasons some may not have considered, explaining that it’s essentially free promotion for the star’s numerous business ventures.
After recently making millions from her best-selling memoir, The Woman In Me, the singer has signed on to star in a big-budget Hollywood film about her life story.
The Crossroads star is set to launch a new jewelry line, B Tiny, and is still selling merchandise to fans at her official store.
The source added, “With her new jewelry line coming out, the biopic in the works and the recently launched Britney Spears Merch site, she’s keeping herself trending and this will be money in her pocket.”
Furthermore, the insider emphasized that the star has complete control over the online narrative surrounding her behavior: “She is healthy, incredibly smart and has so much free time.
“Britney reads these headlines and responds to them in the most bizarre way to keep everyone talking.”
The pop superstar has raised questions about her well-being in recent years with her quirky dance videos and bizarre online antics
The source continued: “Britney reads these headlines and responds to them in the most bizarre way to keep everyone talking.”
Her latest posts come days after DailyMail.com revealed Britney is sober and in firm control of her finances.
She seemed to forget her real age of 43 on December 2, telling fans she was “turning five years old”
She is said to have sworn off “toxic” men, cut off contact with convicted felon Paul Richard Soliz and vowed to remain single.
She also became legally single on her birthday, seven months after finalizing her divorce from Sam Asghari.
“She will take a long time to heal from her trauma,” a source said last month. “But she’s done with men for now and is focusing on herself.”
The Lucky singer reportedly works regularly with a therapist and takes prescription psychiatric medications.
She has also hired a chef and medical professional to work full-time at her $14 million Thousand Oaks mansion and monitor her health.
“She is sober and doesn’t use drugs,” the source said. “She has the occasional glass of wine, but she doesn’t have a substance abuse problem and has people around her who keep her on the straight and narrow.”
The Circus hitmaker is also said to have regained control of her reported $60 million estate.
The source added, “With her new jewelry line coming out and the recently launched Britney Spears Merch site, she’s keeping herself trending and this will be money in her pocket.”
The star managed to make herself a trending topic again this week when she brandished a grill lighter as she walked onto her private jet.
According to sources, the financial windfall from her best-selling memoirs in particular has brought about a transformation.
The singer signed an estimated $15 million deal in 2022, and her book was published the following fall, selling more than three million copies worldwide.
“When she wrote (the memoir), she felt defeated and needed to make some money quickly. She never thought this would completely change her entire life,” the source said.
Now she has set her sights on even bigger ambitions, with insiders saying Britney wants to become a billionaire.
‘Britney has seen people like Selena Gomez become billionaires in a very short time thanks to her makeup line. “She knew that if she wanted to create that kind of wealth, she had to develop something that had a distinct character of her own,” they said.
Then in August came news of an eight-figure deal with Universal Pictures to adapt her book into a film.
“She didn’t sign the deal for the rights to her life story for cheap,” they added. “This helped save her.”
Britney has since been working on her new jewelry line, which promises to sell “delicate, extremely different, unique pieces” that she designed herself.
“She has her hand in every item she makes. She knows this will make her a huge fortune,” the insider added.