Britney hopes children will not go into show business

BRITNEY SPEARS hopes her two young children choose a career outside the entertainment industry and have a “more normal childhood”.

In her first interview for two years, the troubled star told OK! magazine she hoped sons Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1, avoid following in their mother’s footsteps.

The 26-year-old singer also said she was shocked by seeing her younger sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, face so much public scrutiny from her recent pregnancy.

Spears, allowed extra visits with her two young sons following an agreement with her former husband Kevin Federline last month, hoped they would not go into the entertainment industry.

“I’d love them unconditionally if they wanted to,” she said. “I’d just as soon see they have a more normal childhood.”

Spears, who described her forthcoming album as “more urban” and her “best work ever”, also said she was “shocked a little bit” by her 17-year-old sister’s pregnancy. “She’s always been the baby, and now the baby was having a baby,” she said. “It was mind-boggling.”

But she added: “I’m sure the boys will be like big brothers to Maddie.”

Spears’ father Jamie also told the magazine her recent troubles had helped improve his relationship with Britney. “God has a way of taking something bad and turning it into something good,” he told the magazine.

“If this hadn’t happened, I would never have been able to get back with my daughter and have this relationship I have with these two little boys.”

The magazine described her as a “very different woman” to the “erratic and distracted Brit [who] stormed out of an OK! photoshoot” last year.

Federline was granted custody of the couple’s two children in January following several incidents of erratic behaviour.

Police were called to her home after she refused to relinquish one of the boys to a Federline bodyguard and just five months ago she left a psychiatric ward and stirred up a paparazzi car chase.

But in the weeks that followed, she kept a relatively low profile and largely avoided the cameras.

Spears has been under the conservatorship of her father for the last five months after the court put him in control of his daughter’s personal and financial affairs.

During that time, the pop star has been relatively invisible to photographers, only occasionally snapped shopping.