How Jamie Lynn Dropped the Baby Bomb
It is probably the biggest fear that strikes the heart of any teenaged girl when she first finds out that she is pregnant. Things like diaper changes, middle of the night feedings, and how am I going to pay for all of it are some of the last things that enter a girl’s mind when she ‘gets in trouble’. Or if they are, these matters do not take precedence over the first chilling fear ‘How am I going to tell my mom? She’s going to KILL me!’ When you are a celebrity with Spears as your last name, things are not any different. Lynn Spears is hot on the promo trail right now for her new book ‘Through the Storm’ where she dishes about every family secret. And it hasn’t gone over with the family that well, nor would it for any family whose laundry was aired as a means of pushing their own fame forward. But nonetheless, what is done is done, and the same goes for Jamie Lynn Spears who is handling mommyhood just fine, but it was not without some angst. Lynn Spears spoke on NBC’s Today show yesterday to spill the dirt on how she found out that Jamie Lynn was pregnant. No, it wasn’t a sit down heartfelt talk between mother and daughter, it came through a note. Like any teenaged girl, Jamie Lynn was so scared to tell her mom that she couldn’t even tell her to her face. She wrote in a note that she was pregnant but that ‘everything was gonna be OK, mom’, gave it to her mom and asked her to go to her bedroom to read it. At first Lynne thought it was a joke, but when she realized that baby daddy Casey Aldridge could not even look her in the eye, she knew it was real. And Lynne is the first one to take blame for this, almost to the point that she takes on blame for all mothers in America, saying things like ‘What did I do? We just had this talk a month ago’ and on and on. Lynne admits that she was in shock, and even cried when she found out but knows that Jamie Lynn will be a great mom and is already a fabulous mom. Teenaged motherhood can not be easy, and when your every move is in the public eye, I am sure it is even more difficult. But the Spears girls prove over and over again that if nothing else, they are strong, and they are resilient. And while Lynne may have a tough time with guilt and blame for some of their choices and mistakes, she must know that they learned that from somewhere.
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