Britney Spears Found Out Jamie Lynn Was Pregnant at 16 From Media

Britney Spears remembers the second she realized about sister Jamie Lynn Spears’ teen being pregnant in her The Lady in Me memoir.

Britney, 41, reveals within the guide that it was “proper across the holidays” in 2007 that she “came upon” that her then-16-year-old sibling was having a child, a supply confirms to Us Weekly.

Britney claims that Jamie Lynn’s being pregnant got here to her consideration by way of “an unique within the tabloids,” not from Jamie Lynn, now 32. (Jamie Lynn welcomed her first little one, daughter Maddie, in June 2008 with now ex-fiancé Casey Aldridge. She additionally shares daughter Ivey, 5, with husband Jamie Watson, whom she wed in 2014.)

“The household had saved it from me,” Britney alleges in her memoir, explaining, “This was across the time that Jamie Lynn nearly filed for emancipation from our dad and mom.”

Britney remembers her youthful sister allegedly accusing their dad and mom, Jamie Spears and Lynne Spears, of “taking away her cellphone” in the course of the emancipation drama. The “Poisonous” singer claims Jamie Lynn “wound up having to speak to the skin world by means of burner telephones she saved secret.”

Jamie Lynn, for her half, confirmed in her 2022 memoir, Issues I Ought to Have Mentioned, that she did conceal her first being pregnant from Britney — on the recommendation of her advisors. On the time, Britney was going by means of a messy break up from ex-husband Kevin Federline, which influenced Jamie Lynn to maintain her out of the loop.

“My staff believed everybody exterior of the inside circle was a possible risk,” Jamie Lynn claimed in her guide. “They went as far as hiding my being pregnant from my sister, claiming, ‘It’s too dangerous to inform Britney in regards to the child.’ I wanted her greater than ever, and he or she wasn’t in a position to assist me in my most weak time.”

The Candy Magnolias actress confessed that she continues to be haunted by the truth that Britney found the reality from {a magazine}. “To this present day, the damage of not having the ability to inform my sister myself lingers,” Jamie Lynn wrote.

Jamie Lynn additionally alleged in her guide that after she gave beginning to Maddie, now 15, her dad and mom shut down her dream of elevating the kid along with her then-fiancé exterior their household house.

“My household denied my makes an attempt to be unbiased and left me with no different selection than to threaten to file for emancipation with the courts,” she wrote. “I spent days agonizing with my pending choice. However I adopted my intestine and instructed my new lawyer to go forward and draw up the petition.”

Jamie Lynn served her mother and pa with the papers that subsequent week, however in the end determined to not undergo with the authorized separation as their household continued to take care of Britney’s public drama.

“Concurrently, my sister was experiencing her personal breakdown, and media hypothesis about her wellness and our household already had the paparazzi swarming,” Jamie Lynn wrote of the tumultuous time. “Everybody concerned with my saga reluctantly agreed that we would have liked to do what was greatest to keep away from any extra adverse media consideration.”

The time in query was Britney’s public battle with Federline, 45, for custody of their two sons, Sean Preston, 18, and Jayden, 17. Britney addresses the heartbreak in her upcoming memoir, detailing the disappointment she felt in early January 2008 when her boys have been being shuttled backwards and forwards between their dad and mom.

“I felt like nobody had my again. Even my household appeared to not care,” she writes within the guide, referring to the interval during which her visitation was in the reduction of.

The Lady in Me hits cabinets on Tuesday, October 24.