Los Angeles: Pop superstar Britney Spears abruptly filed for divorce on Tuesday, citing irreconcilable differences with husband Kevin Federline just two months after the birth of their second child.
Twenty-four-year old Britney filed a divorce petition in Los Angeles Superior Court a day after a surprise appearance on a late-night television chat show.
The date of the separation after two years of marriage was given as Monday.
Britney did not seek spousal support but asked for sole custody of her two sons with Federline, one-year-old Sean Preston, and James Jayden, born on September 12.
Rumors had swirled for months that the marriage between the pop princess and aspiring rap artist had turned rocky, but Britney said nothing in her Monday evening appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman to suggest that divorce was imminent.
Observers noted, however, she was not wearing her wedding ring and celebrity magazines reported on Tuesday that Britney was a no-show at a New York launch party last week for Federline's first album Playing With Fire.
In Touch magazine said Spears had been spotted in tears at a New York restaurant last week. US Weekly said the two had stayed in separate hotels in New York.
In the summer, Britney denied she was estranged from her husband, telling a television interviewer he had helped her weather the ups and downs of her second pregnancy.
In July, she won an apology from the British edition of The National Enquirer, which had reported that Britney was ready to divorce Federline.
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