[MaryJane]

BRITNEY SPEARS has come out fighting and turned on her critics.

The pregnant mum-of-one insisted she refuses to lead her life by other people’s values and is very happy with who she is.

She also said she had “no regrets” about her 55-hour marriage to childhood sweetheart JASON ALEXANDER in Las Vegas.

And she admitted she had fallen out with former best pal MADONNA — because Britney is no longer a follower of the Kabbalah religion.

In her most revealing interview yet, Britney stormed: “I do not care what people say. At the end of the day it is just words. I don’t allow anyone to change me. I still walk out of my house with my hair in rollers.”

The pop princess has received bucketloads of criticism over her skills as a mum to young son SEAN PRESTON.

She caused outrage when she was snapped driving on a busy highway in Malibu, California, with him on her lap — and as if it could get worse, she wasn’t wearing a seatbelt.

Brit has also been investigated by social services after Sean fell from a high chair at her home while in the care of a nanny.

The worst moment came, though, with dramatic pictures of Britney coming terrifyingly close to dropping the tot in New York last month as she held him and a drink. The incidents have all added fuel to the fire and led critics to say she isn’t coping with motherhood.

Now Britney has decided enough is enough — and has hit back.

She admitted: “There will be plenty more ‘oopses’. I am not perfect. I am human. But you know what? I’m a good mom. I think it’s cruel when you judge people — but if that’s what you wanna say, then OK.”

Brit reckons she is at her happiest when she’s playing the homemaker role, and is determined to prove she is more than capable.

She said: “I like to cook — I try to cook — and I like to clean. I’m obsessed like that. Doing the laundry, everything. I’d be cleaning if someone dropped by. That’s the real me.”

Britney, who has given up her party lifestyle to be a housewife, considers herself a DIY expert and, inspired by TV makeover shows, often turns her hand to jobs round her Malibu mansion.

She said: “I like to watch the re-doing-the-house shows. And I get re-doing the living room and the baby’s room and all that stuff.”

When asked about her January 2004 marriage to Jason, she replied: “I don’t regret anything. With him, I think I was just wanting a sense of home. In my own mind I said, ‘I’m just going to get married to one of my home friends.’ ”

She added: “I had been on the road for a while. I was doing a lot of what I was told instead of what I wanted to do. And I didn’t know how to break out of that.”

She then went on to explain her broken relationship with Madonna. The pair struck up a friendship when the superstar featured on her hit Me Against The Music and quickly took up Madge’s beloved Kabbalah.

But Brit has since ditched the religion — and also lost her pal in the process.

When asked if they still have a relationship she said: “No. I respect her work and I think she is a very smart lady. She introduced me to Kabbalah. But that was at a time in my life when I was really searching for something.”

Britney also insisted everything was fine between her and second hubby KEVIN SPENDERLINE.

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