Jamie Lynn Spears reveals why she left Hollywood for ‘the center of nowhere’

Jamie Lynn Spears has defined why being pregnant on the peak of her fame at 16 was the explanation why she needed to go away the highlight.

The Zoey 101 star, who’s the youthful sister of Britney Spears, grew to become pregnant whereas courting her then-boyfriend Casey Aldridge in 2007.

She stated the one-sided media protection made her really feel ashamed to be pregnant and Spears didn’t need her daughter to develop up round that.

“I used to be advised my life was over. It was actually, actually robust to not consider these issues,” she defined to PEOPLE.

On her resolution to maneuver to ‘the center of nowhere’ in Mississippi, Spears stated: “It actually was simply me and her,” following her break up from Aldridge, then shifting again to Louisiana the place she grew up.

“I needed to be like, ‘Look, this little lady wants you. You higher determine it out’. I wished to create a superb, steady life for my daughter.”

Spears stated she wished Maddie, now 18, to be ‘pleased with’ her mum.

“I wished to verify [she knew] that it wasn’t her fault that she acquired a mother who was 16 and pregnant,” Spears added.

“So, I wished to verify I did all the pieces proper. I believe I used to be a little bit of a helicopter mum or dad.”

Maddie recalled her mom being strict when she was youthful, ‘however with good cause’.

“She simply desires me to be secure,” she stated, including that Spears did a ‘actually good job of giving me a traditional childhood’.

“We simply had enjoyable collectively as a result of she did have me so younger.”

Spears went on to talk about the significance of getting some normality, regardless of ‘everybody understanding who her household is’.

Spears poked enjoyable at when Maddie was youthful, she used to suppose ‘all pop stars had been her aunt’.

“She was like, ‘Aunt Gaga! Aunt RiRi!'” she remembered.

“I used to be like, ‘No, no, no, no. That is not how this works.’ I do not even suppose you ever met these folks. You simply assumed that they had been all of your aunts.”

Earlier this yr, Spears celebrated her twelfth wedding ceremony anniversary together with her businessman husband Jamie Watson.

They share daughter Ivey, born in 2018, whereas Watson stays as a stepfather to Maddie.

Followers will keep in mind Spears’ performing comeback in 2020 when she joined Netflix’s drama collection Candy Magnolias as Noreen Fitzgibbons.

In 2023, Spears additionally reprised her most well-known position, Zoey Brooks, in Zoey 102.