Jamie Lynn Spears wanted to make some laborious choices about her life when she discovered she was pregnant at 15.
“I moved to Mississippi in the midst of nowhere,” Spears, 32, stated throughout the Wednesday, July 26, episode of Hannah Brown’s “Higher Tomorrow” podcast, which was recorded earlier than the SAG-AFTRA strike. “I didn’t have a cellular phone, I had a home telephone. I used to be like, ‘Nobody name me,’ [and] I put myself on a finances.”
The Candy Magnolias star continued: “I had a finances for, like, 10 years that I lived very strictly by and I simply needed to be regular and I simply actually needed to be away [from the spotlight].”
Spears, the youthful sister of pop star Britney Spears, discovered in 2007 that she was pregnant along with her first child when she was nonetheless a youngster. Jamie Lynn and ex-boyfriend Casey Aldridge welcomed their daughter, Maddie, in June 2008. The Zoey 101 alum advised Brown, 28, that she loved the mundane each day actions of parenting with out all eyes watching her.
“I feel being in a small city and going right into a retailer [where the cashier] who’s checking you out doesn’t care about who you’re, what you’re doing or who’s taking your image, she’s attempting to get dwelling to her children,” Jamie Lynn stated. “Interacting with individuals like that each day makes you could have a a lot completely different outlook at any time when a newspaper writes a foul headline about you that’s not true. Like, what, that doesn’t matter. These are the people who matter.”
Maddie is now 15, which is similar age that Jamie Lynn was when she realized she was pregnant for the primary time.
Jamie Lynn Spears. Debby Wong/Shutterstock
“That was one thing I took accountability for the way in which that made sense for me,” Jamie Lynn defined. “That doesn’t make sense to everybody else, nevertheless it made sense for me and the entire world got here down and advised me I used to be the worst human alive for doing so and that each younger lady who ever watched my present was going to be ruined due to me and my private accountability.”
Jamie Lynn now appears at Maddie — and her 5-year-old daughter, Ivey, whom she shares with husband Jamie Watson — and tries to protect them from what she went by means of.
“I take a look at each my youngsters [and think] no less than at that age I used to be within the enterprise as a result of I did it and I beloved it. I used to be placing myself on the market, however my youngsters really should not,” Jamie Lynn — who rose to fame for her roles on All That, Crossroads and Zoey 101 — famous throughout the Wednesday podcast episode. “That’s what their mother does, so anytime that I really feel I’ve uncovered them in any method, you are feeling large guilt. I attempt to shield them in each method that I can, however I additionally attempt to defend them in each method I can.”