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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Was Lynne Spears' book, Pop Culture Mom, "delayed indefinitely" because of 16-year-old Jamie Lynn's pregnancy bombshell? That conclusion was drawn by those pegging the book as a "guide to parenting," a topic she now would seem especially ill-equipped to comment on. But Spears' publisher is trying to set the record straight, telling TV's Extra, "The media have inaccurately reported that [it] is a parenting book... but it's simply not true."Instead, Pop Culture Mom is officially described as "a memoir — and a warning," "a much-needed corrective to a world obsessed with the wrong priorities," and "a window into the real-life world of fame and worldly success, including the toll it extracts from some who aspire to it." Ooh, I know what Ausiello is getting next Christmas!Related:• Jamie Lynn Spears Pregnant at 16: "It Was a Shock," Says Britney's Sis
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