What Mother Spears Says About Pregnant Daughter
As Britney Spears was shaving her head, popping in and out of drug rehab, flashing her nether regions and otherwise shocking us over the past year, fresh-faced tween star Jamie Lynn was the scandal-free Spears sister.
Now she’s a pregnant 16-year-old. And the question everyone’s asking is: Where the heck was Mom?
We all know it’s often not fair to blame a parent for a child’s wayward ways. But Jamie Lynn’s predicament, piled on top of Britney’s woes, certainly made it seem as if a critical mass of evidence was gathering against Lynne Spears’ parenting skills. (Maybe that’s why her publisher announced that her book — about being a mom, no less, and due on Mother’s Day — was on indefinite hold.)
Across the Web, the gloves were off Wednesday, if they’d ever been on. “Is Lynne Spears an even worse mother than Britney?” asked celebrity editor Bonnie Fuller on The Huffington Post. She excoriated her for apparently never having had “the talk” with her daughters: the talk about birth control, and the dangers of unprotected sex. (Jamie Lynn, the star of Nickelodeon’s “Zoey 101,” told OK! magazine that she was 12 weeks pregnant and the father was 19-year-old boyfriend Casey Aldridge.)
Even worse than an apparent lack of parental guidance, for many, was the possibility that the Spears family stood to profit financially from the pregnancy story. A spokesman for OK! magazine, which routinely pays celebrities for their cooperation, would not comment on whether it had paid for the story.
“The sad thing is that you now have a second daughter with a career built on scandal, and a mother who is leading the charge,” said Janice Min, veteran celebrity-watcher and editor of US Weekly.
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