Jamie Lynn Spears Recalls Threatening To Get Emancipated During Teen Pregnancy & More!
22.11.2023 - 04:51
/ perezhilton.com
Jamie Lynn Spears is opening up about her own painful past.
In this week’s new episode of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here, Britney Spears‘ younger sister told co-star Fred Sirieix what it was like growing up in the spotlight and the challenges that came with getting pregnant at an early age.
Despite the so-called ban preventing her from discussing her sis, the Sweet Magnolias star didn’t hold back when asked how the Spears girls got so famous, sharing:
It also helps that Britney — who’s nearly 10 years older!!! — paved the way for her! Funny how she lets that little detail slide… LOLz!
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As we all know, following in her sister’s footsteps, Jamie Lynn joined the industry as a kid first in Nickelodeon‘s All That and then heading up her own series, Zoey 101. But it all came crashing to a halt when she got pregnant at 16 with her first child:
The 32-year-old went on to recall how she “had to hide away for a long time” when the press became unbearable — but moving out of Cali didn’t even help. She dished:
Something the sisters can relate to! But issues with Britney were far from her biggest problem at the time. She was more concerned with all the haters criticizing the pregnancy. The actress recalled how “everybody told me I was going to be a horrible mom, so I was like, ‘I gotta raise this baby by myself.’ And so I did.” And this meant walking away from her family!
Because her parents, including dad Jamie Spears, “didn’t want me to have the baby,” she threatened to distance herself from her family and secretly got to work trying to get emancipated. Acknowledging Lynne didn’t want her to follow through with it “because she knew that I would probably marry the