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In her first interview while pregnant, Britney Spears talks about her pregnancy and the choice to put her career on hold.
In the October issue of Elle, Spears says that before she met (and married four months later) Kevin Federline, she was "introverted. Being an entertainer, especially starting at such a young age, you long to please people and become what they want to see." Marriage and motherhood, she says, are "going to help me not be influenced so much."
Spears, 23, says she doesn't know the baby's sex (but has a feeling it is a boy), and hopes to have a cesarean section. "I don't want to go through the pain. My mom said giving birth was the most excruciating thing she's ever gone through in her life."
Spears adds, "I've always known that I was going to have a baby one day. But there's times when I get a little scared. It's mind-blowing to have a child. "
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