After a tough few years for Britney Spears, she’s recently expressed her delight at reuniting with her son, Jayden, after a two-year estrangement. 

In a series of recent social media posts, Britney has appeared to reconcile with 18-year-old Jayden James Federline. Most recently, she shared a sweet picture on Father’s Day, a mirror selfie where Jayden, who is 6ft3in tall, towered over Britney’s 5ft4in frame.

This follows an Instagram post earlier this week of Jayden driving a convertible car. ‘He is 6’3 and his hands are so big now !!! How long am I going to be in shock ??? It’s so incredibly crazy, it’s not even funny !!! I’m blessed !!! Just please be careful with my heart too !!!’ she captioned the post. After reconnecting with her son, Britney reportedly bought Jayden a brand new Mercedes AMG SL 63 roadster valued at $187K.

Alongside Jayden, Britney also shares son Sean Preston with her ex-husband Kevin Federline. Since 2023, both boys have been living in Hawaii with Kevin and his wife Victoria Prince. Reports about a reunion between Britney and Jayden started circulating in November last year. A source at the time told US Weekly that Jayden has ‘reached out’ to his mom to repair their fractured relationship. ‘Jayden is spending time back in California but does not live with Britney,’ the source said. ‘All of his friends are still in California and he wanted to come back after graduating high school. Jayden reached out to Britney and initiated conversation.’

The source added: ‘He is open to mending the relationship with his mom and seeing where things go. It’s going to take time and will not be an immediate reconciliation. They have seen each other twice and [it] was very brief.’

The source went on to say that Britney was hopeful Preston will reconnect with her soon too. ‘Britney was very excited to hear from him. She hopes they can continue to spend time together and hopes Preston also comes around,’ the source told the outlet. ‘She has had a hole in her heart from not seeing her boys. Jayden reaching out means everything to her.’

It’s thought that Britney and Jayden spent time together over the Christmas holidays, with a source telling PEOPLE ‘Spending time together has made her happy.’ Jayden has dreams of working in the music industry like Britney, and in December she took to Instagram to reveal his music production skills. In another post, she wrote ‘Best Christmas of my life! I haven’t seen my boys in 2 years!!! Tears of joy and literally in shock everyday koo koo crazy so in love and blessed!!!’

Until then, Spears had been paying Kevin $10,000 (£7,840) biweekly in the form of child support with reports of that figure reaching as high as $40,000 (£31,400) when he received full custody.

Britney and Jayden became estranged in 2022. In her memoir, The Woman in Me, Spears detailed how she had traded ‘freedom’ for access to her boys. She wrote that she agreed to the restrictions of her 13-year conservatorship, so she didn’t lose time with her sons.

Jayden gave an interview to The Daily Mail where he spoke about his troubled relationship with Britney, going on to address their decision to skip her wedding to Sam Asghari. ‘I’m really happy for them, but she didn’t invite the whole family, and then if it was just going to be me and Preston, I just don’t see how that situation would have ended on good terms,’ he said. He expressed that he wanted Britney to ‘get better mentally’ so they could repair their relationship.

He went on to elaborate on the strained relationship the sons had with their mother. ‘I think Mom has struggled giving us both attention and showing us equal love and I don’t think she showed enough to Preston and I feel really bad for that,’ he told the Daily Mail at the time. ‘We’ve both been through so much pressure in the past that this is our safe place now, to process all the emotional trauma we’ve been through to heal, heal our mental state. If I complained, she went after [my brother]. I feel guilty, so I am there for him. Mom has treated me better.’

In a since-deleted Instagram post, Britney responded to Jayden, writing: ‘I didn’t do anything wrong and I know I’m not perfect, but the love I’ve given you and how much I adore you and your diplomatic way [of] speaking like Paw Paw [Jamie Spears]… ‘This can be fixed, I will see when she’s better?’

She continued: ‘Jayden, it was a miracle I could even have a normal conversation when I got out of that place,’ adding that she was ‘deeply saddened’ that she ‘she wasn’t up to his expectations of a mother’ and hoped one day they can ‘meet face to face and talk about this openly!’

In 2022, Britney took to Instagram to share posts of her children, expressing her wish to reconcile with them again. Alongside the photographs, she wrote: ‘To both of my boys … I love you … I would die for you !!! God speed my precious hearts !!! I would give anything just to touch your face !!! I send my love … Mamasita.’

Here’s hoping the family’s reconciliation continues.