Jamie Lynn Spears got pregnant at 16 when she was at the height of her career, and now she is admitting just how bad things got.
Often overshadowed by her older sister, Britney Spears, Jamie Lynn garnered her own fanbase by starring as the lead character on the popular Nickelodeon series “Zoey 101.” She shocked viewers in 2007 when she revealed her pregnancy.
“I got pregnant and I decided to keep the baby,” she said during an episode of “I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!,” when she was a contestant. “The whole world was like, ‘You’re a s—. You’re horrible. Your life’s over.’”
Jamie Lynn Spears was at the peak of her popularity in 2007 when she announced she was pregnant at 16. (Chris Polk/FilmMagic/Getty Images)
“I had to go hide away for a long time,” she explained of the circumstances surrounding her pregnancy. “I moved to Mississippi and literally hid. Put a gate around me.”
“I had 20 paparazzi on me every day,” Spears divulged. “They wouldn’t leave me alone. They came and lived in Mississippi [in] the middle of nowhere. It was horrible.
Jamie Lynn Spears welcomed her daughter Maddie in 2008. (Jamie Lynn Spears Instagram)
“I hated it so much, I just wanted to be normal because I wanted my baby to be normal. And everybody told me I was gonna be a horrible mom, so I was like, ‘I gotta raise this baby by myself.’ And so I did,” she said of her decision to go forth with the pregnancy.
When Jamie Lynn Spears, left, got pregnant, she was not just known as Britney Spears’ little sister. She had her own career and fanbase. (Image Group LA/Disney Channel via Getty Images)
Spears, now 32, said during that difficult period, she lied to her mother about her whereabouts. She told her mother she would have a doctor’s appointment but would actually be consulting with a lawyer. When Spears brought the lawyer home one day, Lynne ultimately let her daughter go off on her own.
“It was like the first time in the world I had no one else. It was like I was in control,” she said of her move to Mississippi.
The actress now lives in Louisiana with that baby, a daughter Maddie, who is the same age Spears was when she gave birth to her. Spears married husband Jamie Watson in 2014, and they welcomed their first child together, Ivy, in 2018.
Jamie Lynn Spears revisted her character of Zoey Brooks in the film “Zoey 102.” (Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Paramount+)
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