Jamie Lynn Spears recalls being told she’d be ‘horrible mother’ amid teen pregnancy

Jamie Lynn Spears has spoken out about among the unfavorable press she confronted after getting pregnant at 15.

The 32-year-old actor spoke candidly about her household and pregnancy – as she first welcomed her daughter, Maddie, in 2008 – throughout a current episode of ITV’s I’m a Celeb…Get Me Out of Right here! Chatting with fellow castmate Fred Sirieix, Spears opened up about leaving her hit present – Zoey 101 – earlier than having her first baby, and recalled among the scrutiny she confronted on the time.

“After I completed Zoey 101, I had the love of my life, or what I believed, and I bought pregnant,”  she stated. “I made a decision to maintain the infant. I had a child and the entire world was like: ‘You’re a slut, you’re horrible, your life is over.’”

She acknowledged how she actually felt concerning the criticism since she’d gotten “pregnant younger” and was “on a child’s present”. Spears went on to debate how her mother and father felt about her pregnancy at first, noting that they “had so much happening”.

“I believe they had been unhappy I used to be on this state of affairs – it’s your child having a child. I needed to cover away for a very long time, they had been relentless,” the actor added, referring to the paparazzi.

She recalled how, regardless that she’d moved to a special state after getting pregnant, she was nonetheless surrounded by the press.

“I moved to Mississippi and actually hid, put a gate round me,” she stated. “I had 20 paparazzi on me daily, however they wouldn’t go away me alone. They got here and lived in Mississippi, the center of nowhere. It was horrible. I hated it a lot. I needed to be regular as a result of I needed my child to be regular.”

The Nickelodeon alum then shared how the scrutiny affected the choices she made as a mom. She formally welcomed Maddie in June 2008 along with her now ex-boyfriend, Casey Aldrige.

“Everyone thought I used to be going to be a horrible mum so I believed ‘I’ve bought to lift this child on my own,’ and I did,” she added.

She continued to mirror on her resolution to maneuver away, as she tearfully told Sirieix that when she first bought pregnant, “lots of people round” her didn’t need her to have the infant. After Sirieix told her that all the things she’s achieved in her life up to now “is superb”, Spears nonetheless acknowledged that she didn’t really feel comfy with these near her, which was why she moved to Mississippi.

The All That star additionally recalled that on the time, she even tried to emancipate herself from her mother and father – Jamie Spears and Lynne Spears – so she “might make her personal choices”.

“I used to be secretly telling [my mother] I used to be going to physician’s appointments and stuff like that, and I used to be going to conferences with a lawyer,” she stated. “I told my mother I used to be going to get gasoline in the future, however I went and met the lawyer, and I confirmed up on the home with the lawyer… My poor mother, we put her by means of it.”

“She didn’t need me to [get emancipated] as a result of she knew that may imply I’d most likely marry the daddy of this baby and lose my fortune that I’d amassed over time of working,” Spears added, earlier than noting that her mom then inspired her to maneuver away. After revealing that this was the primary time she felt like she was “in management,” she stated that after she went to Mississippi, her mom nonetheless came around.

Along with her 15-year-old daughter, the Candy Magnolias star has a five-year-old daughter, Joan, who she shares with husband Jamie Watson.

Over time, Spears has continued to open up concerning the criticism she confronted when she had a baby in her teenagers. Throughout an look on Hannah Brown’s Higher Tomorrow podcast in July, Spears addressed her resolution to cease filming Zoey 101 after getting pregnant, confessing it was a alternative that made sense for her.

“That was one thing I took accountability for the way in which that made sense for me,” she stated. “That doesn’t make sense for everybody else, however it made sense for me and the entire world got here down and told me I used to be the worst human alive for doing so and that each younger woman who ever watched my present was going to be ruined due to me and my private resolution.”

In her memoir,Things I Should Have Said, which got here out in January 2022, Spears wrote that when she first bought pregnant, and earlier than she moved to Mississippi, her mother and father begged her to not have the infant or give her up for adoption. Nonetheless, Spears claimed that after she selected to maintain her baby, she then ended up being “banished” to a location she stated she will’t recall now.

“They took my smartphone away, fearing the information would get out, and insisted that nobody share any info with anybody, particularly the press. My daddy and I ended talking and the strain was horrible,” she wrote.

Spears in contrast the time in her life to being in jail, including how her staff “went as far as hiding my pregnancy from” her sister – Britney Spears. She wrote that whereas her staff stated it was “too dangerous” to inform the singer concerning the child, she nonetheless wanted her sister “greater than ever and [Britney] wasn’t in a position [to] assist [her] in [her] most weak time”.