Britney Spears still loves her sister Jamie Lynn “unconditionally”
Britney Spears says she still loves Jamie Lynn “unconditionally” despite claiming it’s all lies in her sister’s memoir Things I Should Have Said.
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Living in an Australian jungle has Jamie Lynn Spears opening up about the challenges she faced when she became pregnant with her first child, Maddie Aldridge, at the age of 16.
On Monday’s episode of British TV show “I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!” Spears, 32, cried as she told fellow contestant Fred Sirieix, a French reality TV veteran, about her first pregnancy.
“After I finished ‘Zoey (101),’ I had, you know, the love of my life – (or so I would have thought) – and I got pregnant. And I decided to keep the baby,” Spears said. “The whole world said, ‘You’re a slut. You are terrible. Your life is over.’ … Because I got pregnant early. I was on a children’s show.”
Spears has previously stated that she became pregnant in 2007, months after filming the popular Nickelodeon show wrapped, but this did not lead to the end of the show.
When Sirieix asked about her parents, Spears said, “They had a lot going on, but I think they were just sad that I was in that situation. But it’s also about your baby having a baby.”
As Spears lay in a hammock, tears streamed from the corners of her eyes as she recounted her parents’ reaction to her pregnancy. “When I first got pregnant, they didn’t want me to have the baby – just a lot of people around me,” she said.
“What you’ve done is amazing,” Sirieix assured her. “You have so much strength of character to do what you did.”
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“Everyone” told Jamie Lynn Spears that she would be “a terrible mother.”
This experience encouraged her to emancipate herself so that “I could make my own decisions,” Spears told Sirieix. When her parents thought she was going to doctor’s appointments, she secretly met with a lawyer.
“My poor mother. We did this to her,” Spears said of the time her lawyer showed up at the family home. “She didn’t want me to do that because she knew it would mean I would probably marry the father’s child and lose the wealth I had accumulated over the years of working since I was very young.”
Spears was engaged to Casey Aldridge, Maddie’s father, between 2008 and 2010.
Her mother replied, “Just go, baby. “Just go,” Spears said. “It was the first time I was in control.”
“Everyone told me I would be a terrible mother, so I thought, ‘I’m going to have to raise my baby alone.’ And that’s what I did,” Spears said. Due to “relentless” press coverage, she “had to hide in a closed house in Mississippi,” but that didn’t stop the paparazzi from snapping photos of her “in the middle of nowhere.”
“I wanted my baby to be normal,” she said.
When Sirieix began a conversation with Spears about her “superstar” family in Episode 2 of I’m A Celebrity, now in its 23rd season, she explained: “I think every family struggles and has their problems. I spoke to (Britney Spears) before I came here. We love each other.”
In an interview with producers, Spears reflected on her conversation with her co-star. “I’m proud of where I’m at now,” said Spears, who married Jamie Watson in 2014 and gave birth to their second daughter, Ivey Joan Watson, in 2018.
She added: “I’m not sharing it by being sad or crying about it, but I’m just really grateful.”
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