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Sep 14, 2021, 9 tweets

💍If it were most couples, it’d be cause for unbridled joy and congratulations: a surprise engagement announcement.

But when half of that couple is Britney Spears, the public are not quite sure what to think...

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📸Britney Spears, 39, shared the news on Sunday post. She was seen showing off her new four-carat diamond ring, Asghari stands beside her.

Underneath, some fans and followers tweeted their best wishes – yet the overriding feeling seemed to be of protective doubt. Nerves, even

The point was made most vocally by Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer, of all people. “Make him sign a prenup,” Spencer wrote, simply.

❤️The advice elicited more than 35,000 likes
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Asghari, 27, and Spears have been in a relationship since 2016.

He showed a sense of humour referencing fans concern:“Thank you to everyone who is concerned about the prenup!

“Of course we’re getting [an] iron-clad prenup to protect my jeep and shoe collection"

At this stage in 2021, there can’t be many people unaware of Britney Spears’ public attempts to free herself from her father’s control...

Jamie Spears finally agreed to terminate the conservatorship, saying “recent events” called into question whether she still needed it

Through it all, Asghari has kept a relatively low profile.

⚖️He occasionally appears on Britney’s Instagram videos and she his, but fans have tended to be split over whether he is good news or not.

That same fissure has appeared after the proposal

❓“Is Britney just moving from the control of one man to another?” the camp who eye Asghari as a suspicious young actor on the hunt for a bigger profile, seem to argue.

They point out that Britney has fought so hard for her independence that she should be just that, independent

👰The other side, who are equally forthright, might counter that if Britney deserves anything it’s happiness, and she seems to have found it with a nice-seeming man who she has been asking to marry for years
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With the help of her army of fans, Britney Spears has finally broken free from one cage...

Whether he signs a prenup or not, those same fans will now stand sentry to make sure she doesn’t end up in a new one
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