Casey Aldridge, the father of former Zoey 101 star Jamie Lynn Spears' 8-month-old daughter, has been charged with misdemeanor careless operation of a vehicle after crashing and flipping his Ford F150 early Sunday morning, the Associated Press reports.
Aldridge, 19, was taken to a Ferriday, Louisiana, hospital with non-life threatening injuries — including, says TMZ.com, a skull fracture around his hairline. Though no surgery is required, he is currently being held for observation at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
According to multiple accounts, Spears is at his side.
Three of the four passengers in Aldridge's truck were reportedly ejected from the vehicle ...
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Lynne Spears appeared on Wednesday's Today, and not only spoke about Britney's downward spiral, but also about daughter Jamie Lynn getting pregnant at 16.Lynne, who was interviewed first by Meredith Vieira and later by Al Roker, told Today that she was planning to go out for lunch when Jamie Lynn called and told her to come home.Once home, Jamie Lynn handed her mother a note and told her to go into her bedroom to read it. Jamie Lynn's boyfriend, Casey Aldridge, was also present at the time, and avoided giving Lynne eye contact."It said she was pregnant and everything was going to be OK. She was going to raise it," Lynne told Vieira. "I thought it was a joke I was waiting for the punch line... I was in shock... then I started to cry. And she started consoling me at that point."Lynne blames herself for her children's personal dramas. "As a mother, don't we always blame ourselves?" she said. "I took a lot of the blame. I took all the blame. The personality I have, it's always my fault....
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Lynne Spears appeared exclusively on Today to publicize her new book on raising her star daughters Britney and Jamie Lynn in the spotlight.The book, aptly titled, Through The Storm — A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World, was supposed to be a book about poetry and memories. That was five years ago, before Britney's failed marriages, custody battle, public breakdowns and Jamie Lynn's teen pregnancy. Spears, speaking to Today's Meredith Vieira, said the book quickly became a "set-it-straight" book.Spears also told Vieira that the book was never supposed to be about parenting, as was previously reported. Vieira made sure to point out that many critics of Spears look at her two daughters and think, "she has no business writing a book on parenting." (Possibly the understatement of the century).Spears does talk candidly in the book about how her darling girl Britney went from a happy singer/dancer to a troubled woman shaving her head in front of the paparazzi. She feels ...
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Lynne Spears details her famous daughters Britney's and Jamie Lynn's highs and lows in her new memoir, Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World.Despite her family's troubled last few years, Spears says that even knowing what she knows now, she would still let her girls pursue their dreams of stardom. She tells People Magazine , "I think you have to let them follow their dreams," adding, "I think it would be worse in the end if you didn't." In her book, Spears admits that she wasn't a perfect mother and regrets not listening to her gut. "Every mother makes mistakes," she writes, "and I'm no different." Spears admits that the toughest time in her life was after she discovered last that then-16-year-old Jamie Lynn was pregnant.Though her elder children, Bryan, 31, and Britney, 26, have not read or commented publicly on the memoir, Jamie Lynn loved the book. Lynne told People, "I started to cry because I told her, 'I wanted so much for you to like it.' And ...
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Have you read this story? Time magazine is reporting that a group of high-school girls in Gloucester, Mass., who are all under the age of 16, made a pact to intentionally get pregnant and raise their children together. I'll let you excavate all the sad details of that situation on your own, but it got me thinking: What has happened that teenagers want to have children?The Today show reported on Friday that teenage pregnancy rates have gone up for the first time in 15 years. Referencing the Time story, they offered a group of experts who offered possible explanations for the intention to get pregnant at such a young age. One proffered that having a baby is akin to having a pet that offers you unconditional love. Another argued that having a baby is the latest fashion accessory, made popular by the media coverage of young, unwed celebrities whose "baby bumps" are all the rage these days.At the box office, Knocked Up wrestled — albeit comically — with the difficulties of be...
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