Photo: BANG Showbiz. All rights reserved. Britney Spears has been "reaching out" to her estranged sons.

The 42-year-old singer shares Sean Preston, 18, and Jayden James, 17, with her former husband Kevin Federline but they have a strained relationship due, in part, to the boys' reported embarrassment about their mum’s raunchy social media posts. A source told Us Weekly: "Britney has been reaching out to her sons more and wants to start spending more time with them when they are ready." Sean and Jayden moved to Hawaii with Kevin, 46, and his wife Victoria Prince, 41, plus their two children, in 2023.

It is thought at the time of her sons' move to Hawaii Britney did not object. In June, Kevin – who split from Britney in 2007 after three years of marriage – denied he had relocated to the island to take advantage of a legal loophole that would extend Britney’s child support obligations. He insisted his wife landed a job offer at a university, while he had DJ opportunities.

Kevin has largely maintained primary custody of the boys due to Britney’s controversial 13-year conservatorship, which left her life and financial affairs and decisions in the hands of her father before it was ended in November 2021. In her 2023 memoir ‘The Woman in Me’, Britney said she “went along” with the binding agreement so she could have access to her sons, saying in the book: “Because I played by the rules, I was reunited with my boys.” Meanwhile, speaking after it was reported Bri.