Britney Spears’ life has been a roller coaster for the past 10 years she has spent in the spotlight having every aspect of her existence scrutinized by the media. According to OK! Magazine, Britney’s recent comeback had a bigger price for the pop princess – she had to give up on her son’s (Sean Preston and Jayden James) custody and remain under her father’s conservatorship.

OK! has learned exclusively the extraordinary price the singer is paying for her comeback, voluntarily giving up the fight to regain custody of her boys in exchange for fame.

Last fall, as her upcoming concert tour was being organized, Brit’s camp discovered that because of the star’s history, they could not purchase insurance to cover her tour unless she was still under the conservatorship of her father Jamie Spears. Until that point, the plan was for the conservatorship to be lifted on Dec. 31, followed by Britney, 27, heading to family court with a petition to regain custody of Preston and Jayden.

But an insider tells OK!, “The insurance situation changed everything.”

Now Britney is feeling the pressure to succeed and make her comeback tour a success, so she can finally fight for what’s important in her life. Well, no one said it would be easy to pick up all the pieces after the major meltdown last year…

[images: OK!]