July 28th 2023.
Jamie Lynn Spears recently opened up about the cruel comments she received after announcing her pregnancy in 2007. At the time, the 16-year-old actress was playing the titular character in the Nickelodeon show Zoey 101. While the series was not cancelled due to her pregnancy, it did end about a month before she gave birth.
Jamie Lynn shared that she stood firm in her decision to continue with her pregnancy, despite the backlash and media storm that followed. “That was something I took responsibility for the way that made sense for me”, she explained. “But that doesn’t make sense for everyone else, 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.”
In order to escape the spotlight, Jamie Lynn moved to Mississippi in the ‘middle of nowhere’ without a cell phone, and put herself on a budget. “I just wanted to be normal and I just really wanted to be away [from the public eye]”, she said when speaking on the Better Tomorrow podcast.
However, Jamie Lynn returned to TV in 2018 with an appearance on Double Dare, before being cast in the Netflix romance series Sweet Magnolias the following year. Now she is starring in a reboot of her hit show Zoey 101, titled Zoey 102. She has described returning to the role as a ‘pinch-me moment’, and said it was a ‘dream come true’ to bring the story and characters back to life.
Jamie Lynn and ex-boyfriend Casey Aldridge welcomed their daughter Maddie, now 15, in June 2008. She had a second child, daughter Ivey Joan, 5, in 2018 with husband Jamie Watson. Zoey 102 is now streaming on Paramount Plus.
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