Britney Spears Celebrates Birthday By Saluting Her Sister, Jamie Lynn

Britney Spears celebrated her 41st birthday on Friday, but the biggest gift was the one she gave to her sister. She and Jamie Lynn Spears, ten years Britney’s junior, have recently had what can safely be called a frosty relationship, but it looks as if those days may be behind them.

The international pop sensation took to Instagram (as is her métier) to share two photos of her younger sibling—one of which showed her holding a guitar. Deploying the flash camera emoji and the name jamielynnspears, Britney’s caption suggested that the pics came from her sister herself.

Alongside the images, she wrote, “It’s my b-day but you’re my heart so I’m thinking about you … congratulations on being so brave, inspiring, and showing guts and glory in your show!!! You ain’t alone … if anybody knows what that feels like … I get it My baby sister !!! I love you !!!”

Other emojis include a party hat and … someone blowing their nose? 

The show Britney referenced is Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test, a newly-launched reality series in which Spears and other celebs are challenged to survive a military boot camp. She is joined by the Spice Girls’s Mel B., Real Housewives of Atlanta‘s Kenya Moore, former baseball champ Mike Piazza, and [checks notes] one-time Trump goon Anthony Scaramucci.  

For those who follow the Spears saga, Friday’s IG update is certainly an unexpected development. In January, the two were publicly at odds following the publication of the younger Spears’s book Things I Should Have Said. There was a social media-fought war of words that dug up past grievances, like Jamie Lynn’s use of Britney remixes at the 2017 Radio Disney Music Awards. Britney’s lawyers issued a cease-and-desist during the book tour, which sparked a response citing “intimidating and threatening social media posts.” The “Toxic” singer called her sister a “scum person,” and she was not invited to her June wedding to Sam Asghari.

But this is all in the past! Let’s focus on a potentially beautiful future, okay? 

Britney seems happy in marriage, and she also scored a hit recently with Elton John with the mashup collab “Hold Me Closer.” And on the horizon is the publication of her memoir, which was completed this summer. The book landed her a reported $15 million payday, a deal whose rivals include Barack and Michelle Obama, and Bill Clinton, and ahead of other notables like Bruce Springsteen and Pope John Paul II.