Britney Spears has secured her freedom after a judge granted approval to terminate the conservatorship that has largely controlled the American pop superstar’s medical, financial, and personal decisions for nearly 14 years. At a hearing in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom on Friday, Judge Brenda Penny dissolved the legal arrangement in a widely expected move. “As of today, the conservatorship of the person and estate of Britney Jean Spears is hereby terminated,” Penny said, five months since Spears publicly demanded the end of the conservatorship. Spears did not attend the hearing. Fans outside the court cheered at the decision, chanted “Britney! Britney! Britney!” and broke into singing Spears’s hit song “Stronger.” Penny did not require Spears to undergo a mental health evaluation, which is often taken before ending a conservatorship. Jamie Spears, Britney Spears’s father, put in place the conservatorship in 2008 after his daughter suffered a mental breakdown and underwent treatment for …