Britney Spears has removed her Instagram account following a series of posts that raised concern among fans and coincided with a public dispute involving her ex-husband Kevin Federline’s recent memoir.
By Sunday, November 2, the pop icon’s Instagram page was no longer accessible, with the platform displaying a notice that the “profile may have been removed.” Spears, 43, has not addressed the deactivation directly.
In recent weeks, fans had grown increasingly uneasy after Spears shared multiple videos of herself dancing in her living room, often disabling comments and pairing the clips with cryptic captions referencing her two sons — Jayden James, 19, and Sean Preston, 20 — who live in Hawaii with Federline, 47.
One particularly discussed video, posted on October 7, showed Spears with visible bruises on her arms and bandages wrapped around her hands and wrists. In the caption, she explained that she had fallen down a flight of stairs and reflected on the emotional difficulty of seeing her sons return to Hawaii.
“My boys had to leave and go back to Maui,” she wrote. “This is the way I express myself and pray through art … father who art in heaven … I’m not here for concern or pity, I just want to be a good woman and be better … and I do have wonderful support.”
She added, “I fell down the stairs at my friend’s house … it was horrible. It snaps out now and then, not sure if it’s broken but for now it’s snapped in.”
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More recently, on October 19, Spears posted a photo of herself horseback riding and appeared to reference spending four months in rehab in 2018 while under her former conservatorship. In that post, she suggested she suffered “brain damage” during the period and compared her shoulder blades to “wings,” drawing a symbolic parallel to themes in the film Maleficent.
The singer also alluded to what she described as a “traumatic experience,” which she wrote about in the final section of her 2023 memoir The Woman in Me, noting that she was “illegally forced to not use my feet or body to go anywhere” for several months.
Meanwhile, Federline’s memoir, You Thought You Knew, has reignited public scrutiny of their past relationship. The book includes claims about Spears’ behavior during their marriage, their parenting dynamics, and Federline’s concern that “something bad” might happen to her. Excerpts circulated across major media outlets have drawn widespread public debate.
On October 15, Spear responded via X, accusing Federline of “constantly gaslighting” her and defending the love she has for her sons.
“To be loved unconditionally and with a naive heart like mine, always being threatened or made to believe I’m the bad one as they profit off my pain…” she wrote. “Oh dear Jesus show me there is a God and I can too be loved unconditionally and not have to be so perfect.”
