Britney Spears misses her kids but doesn’t want them back full time, according to the troubled star’s first husband Jason Alexander.

Alexander - who was married to Brit for 55 hours in 2002 – claims that Britney accepts that she’s a crap mom and doesn’t want to take sons Sean Preston and Jayden James back full-time.

He tells U.S. magazine In Touch: "She wants to see them (kids), but she doesn't want to be a full-time mom. She said it doesn't matter if she doesn't get them back full-time, and that she can always have other kids later on."

The singer lost the right to visit her sons in Janaury following a stand-off with police and paramedics when she refused to return her boys to ex-husband Kevin Federline, who has full custody.

Alexander reveals he and his former childhood sweetheart renewed contact over the Christmas period:: "I got a phone call, a voice mail, that said, 'Hey! It's me. I know we haven't spoken in a while.' It was Britney.

"She said she'd call me back, and we've been speaking ever since."