Britney Spears Explains Her ‘Embarrassing’ Instagram Dancing, While Teasing Potential Performance with Son

Britney Spears is addressing the chatter around her current dancing style. 

On Thursday, Jan. 8, the pop star, 44, shared a throwback photo on Instagram from her performance of “I’m Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman” at the 29th Annual American Music Awards on Jan. 9, 2002, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. She revealed her mindset towards returning to the stage in the caption of the post.

“Interestingly enough, I dance on IG to heal things in my body that people have no idea about,” Spears wrote. “Yup and it’s embarrassing sometimes… but I walked through the fire to save my life.”

The “Gimme More” singer added that she has no plans to return to the stage unless she’s out of the country. 

“I will never perform in the U.S. again because of extremely sensitive reasons, but I hope to be sitting on a stool with a red rose in my hair, in a bun, performing with my son… in the UK and AUSTRALIA very soon,” she wrote. “He’s a huge star and I’m so humbled to be in his presence!!! God speed, little man!!!”

Spears didn’t clarify which of her sons — Sean, 20, or Jayden, 19 — she was referring to, but in the same post, she said she plans to send him a white piano she used during a performance at the 2002 American Music Awards. 

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The mother of two also shared a selfie on Instagram that she took with her son, Jayden, captioning it with a painted nail emoji and a unicorn emoji. 

“Britney had a fun time celebrating Christmas with Jayden — it’s been such a special holiday,” a source exclusively told PEOPLE last month. 

Sean spent the holiday with his aunt and Britney’s younger sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, and mom, Lynn Spears, an Instagram post revealed. 

Britney shares Sean and Jayden with her ex-husband, Kevin Federline. After the release of Federline’s 2025 memoir, You Thought You Knew, the former dancer shared on Talk Shop Live in November, “We haven’t talked specifically, but I know that she’s talked to our sons, which is good.”

“They absolutely love their mom, right? I mean, they always, always have, always will,” he added. “It’s instilled in them. And I’ve always wanted for them to have a connection with their mom, the way I have with my mom.”