Jamie Lynn Spears was told teen pregnancy ‘ruined everything’ as she quit Zoey 101
JAMIE Lynn Spears was told teen pregnancy “ruined everything” as she quit Zoey 101.
The 32-year-old was 16 when she fell pregnant with daughter Maddie which resulted in her quitting the successful Nickelodeon show.
Opening up about that period, I’m a Celebrity star Jamie Lynn said: “When I was not much older than my daughter is now… I became pregnant.
“That was something that I took responsibility for the way that made sense for me.
“That doesn’t make sense for everyone else, but it made sense for me, and the whole world came down and told me I was the worst human alive for doing so, and that every young girl who ever watched my show was going to be ruined because of me and my personal decision.
“I take responsibility, I didn’t want to let anybody down, but I had to do what was right for me.”
Appearing on Hannah Brown’s Better Tomorrow podcast, she added: “It just shows you, just 15 years ago I was being shamed as a woman for making a choice about my own life.
“It was just like ‘You are the worst, you’ve ruined everything, every child now, wow, what a let-down you are.’ And so I just think that like, I would hope that we would do better.”
Jamie, who is also mum to five-year-old daughter Ivey Joan with husband Jamie Watson, is currently in the I’m a Celebrity jungle and during Monday night’s show she finally spoke about famous sister Britney.
She opened up about their strained relationship when quizzed by her campmates and said: “I think every family fights and has their stuff but I talked to her before I came here and we love each other.”