In Her New Book, Jamie Lynn Spears Says That Her Parents And Management Pressured Her To Have An Abortion When She Was 16 To Save Her Career

Jamie Lynn Spears, The Jan Brady of the Spears family, has a memoir coming out that was originally reported to be titled Britney, Britney, Britney! I Must Confess, but after receiving some blow-back (a million eyes rolling in unison does create a mighty gale), is now titled Things I Should Have Said. According to TMZ, Jamie Lynn’s big sister Britney Spears isn’t the only one who had to deal with the controlling ways of her parents, Jamie and Lynne Spears. In the book, Jamie Lynn writes that when she became pregnant at 16 by her boyfriend at the time Casey Aldrige, her parents were upset. And where’s the #Justice4JamieLynn movement when you need them? That’s right, nowhere to be found. Poor Jan, I mean Jamie Lynn.

TMZ reports that when Jamie Lynn told her parents she was pregnant in 2007, they and her management did everything in their power to convince her that a baby would effectively end her career. At the time, Jaime Lynn had recently wrapped her Nickelodeon show Zoey 101 and failed an audition to be in Twilight. Just imagine, if Jamie Lynn hadn’t gotten pregnant, she might be the one vying for an Oscar for playing Princess Diana! As TMZ reports, her parents didn’t take too kindly to the news and used strong-arm tactics to try to persuade her to keep it a secret.

Jamie Lynn Spears says she went through hell when pregnant at 16, and her parents and team were a driving force behind her misery … pushing adoption, abortion and going to great lengths to hide her from the public.

In one passage, Spears says people from her inner circle, “… came to my room trying to convince me that having a baby at this point in my life was a terrible idea … ‘It will kill your career. You are just too young. You don’t know what you’re doing. There are pills you can take. We can help you take care of this problem … I know a doctor,'” adding, “everyone around me just wanted to make this ‘issue’ disappear.”

Jamie Lynn says flatly, “…everyone was certain that termination would be the best course of action.”

Jamie eventually gave birth to her now 12-year-old daughter Maddie, but she says, things got a lot worse for her until her parents finally let her announce the news with “an exclusive agreement” with OK! Magazine, the Jan Brady of glossy entertainment mags. Echoing what we now know Britney went through in regards to her personal freedoms, Jamie Lynn says she also had her phone taken away from her. Which sounds par for the course for a 16-year-old, but that’s not what’s important here. What’s important is the pain she still feels at not having been able to tell Britney the news herself.

Spears says her phone was taken away to stop her from communicating with people outside her immediate circle … the goal being to keep everything on the down-low.

Jamie Lynn claims she wasn’t even allowed to tell Britney she was pregnant, saying, “I needed her more than ever and she wasn’t able to help me in my most vulnerable time … To this day, the hurt of not being able to tell my sister myself still lingers.”

Also echoing Britney’s plight, Jamie Lynn says that she and her dad fought bitterly over the situation. And she kind-of, sort-of takes a little dig at momma Lynne as well.

At one point, Jamie Lynn says she and her dad Jamie got into a fight over the unborn baby, “slinging words and tossing insults” when he pushed adoption.

Spears says eventually her team made an exclusive agreement with OK! Magazine to break the pregnancy story, and give them the first images of Jamie Lynn’s baby.

Jamie Lynn says she and her mom went to some cabin in where she thought was Connecticut to hide until the article came out. The two spent Thanksgiving there together, where “Momma wore her disappointment like her favorite jacket.”

That’s officially the best thing I’ve ever heard come out of Jamie Lynn’s mouth. Pure poetry. Dolly Parton just gave up songwriting. If I knew Jamie Lynn could write this well, I’d have started the #Justice4JamieLynn movement myself years ago. Who’s with me now?

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