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Tailspinning poptard Britney Spears has not been making the greatest choices lately, having most recently ordered her accountants to fold the portion of her budget reserved for miscellaneous baby needs into the newly established $40,000-A-Night Vegas Suite for Private Time With My New Actor/Model/Soulmate Fund. But could Spears, whose mythically potent fertility has inspired primitive cultures as far as the Amazon to carve her image out of limestone and rub the statuette's belly to enhance their reproductive chances, have gotten herself knocked up again? The Scoop, noting a report from In Touch Weekly, presents the evidence:

In one widely circulated photo, Spears was shown throwing up peanut butter and reports said she had been drinking, but according to ITW, Spears has been skipping the booze. "Her dancers were indulging in Malibu rum and pineapple drinks and taking shots of vodka," a witness to a January 14 party at a Las Vegas casino told the mag. "But Britney drank bottled water." [...]

I've seen her during the last two pregnancies and she has the same look now," a "pal who sees Britney every week" told the mag. "She's heavier, but that's not it. It's the sparkle in her eye. She always gets that sparkle when she's pregnant, like she's relaxed and happy."

Britney was not, in fact, "throwing up peanut butter"; rather, that's how auditioning couchhusband Isaac Cohen described the brown, runny, chunky substance coating his hands and much of his car's interior, in a possible puke-related cover-up. (See Cohen here standing by his PB n' J story, though we remain unconvinced that in this case, the B doesn't stand for barf.) Some wayward vomit, sparkling eyes, and the retention of water weight in the presence of her team of professional background drinkers doesn't necessarily indicate pregnancy, however, and we won't really start suspecting the worst until we're presented with a genuinely compelling piece of evidence—say, cameraphone video of Spears telling the waitress to bring over an extra shot of tequila, because she's "drinking for two!"

UPDATE: Britney's manager, Larry Rudolph, denies the rumor, insisting that the glimmer in her eye and her bloat is purely the result of heavy drinking and late-night KFC runs. He tells Us Weekly, "Britney is not pregnant," and that it's "absurd." He also denies the peanut butter/vomit rumor, saying, "Because Isaac didn't lick the peanut butter off his fingers, someone decided that it must not be peanut butter, but must instead be Britney's vomit...Ridiculous."