Lynne Spears

No, not personally - but Lynne Spears is miffed that people vilified pregnant Jamie Lynn Spears, then praised the knocked up Bristol Palin.

This wasn't just the hypocritical reaction of idiots like Bill O'Reilly, either. Most of the general public had a "totally different reaction" to the teen pregnancies of Jamie Lynn and Bristol, Lynne said in an interview with Newsweek.

"It's as if [Sarah Palin] became celebrated," Lynne said.

"I mean, the mother was celebrated for this... Every woman in the world applauded her strength and convictions and poor Jamie Lynn, you saw how she was crucified - everybody did, firsthand. I just feel like it's been a very hypocritical situation."

We'd have to agree.

In December, Jamie Lynn Spears, then 16, announced her pregnancy. She got engaged to Casey Aldridge and gave birth to daughter Maddie Briann in June at age 17.

In August, Sarah Palin, the Alaska Governor and Republican V.P. candidate, revealed that her 17-year-old daughter, Bristol Palin, is expecting and engaged to Levi Johnston.

"Do I promote teen sex? Of course not," Lynne said. "Do I promote teen pregnancy? Of course not. But when it happens, you deal with it and you do the best you can do."

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On top of discussing Britney Spears' epic meltdown while promoting her new money-making vehicle memoir, Through the Storm, Mother of the Weak Week Lynne Spears delved into the topic of Jamie Lynn on Wednesday's Today show.

Specifically, her getting pregnant at 16.

Lynne recalled how she was planning to go to lunch when Jamie Lynn Spears called and told her to come home. At home, Lynne found her daughter's boyfriend (now fiance / baby-daddy) Casey Aldridge, who avoided eye contact.

Jamie Lynn handed her a note and told her to go in the bedroom to read it.

"It said she was pregnant and everything was going to be okay. She was going to raise it," Lynne Spears recalled. "I thought it was a joke ... I was waiting for the punch line. I was in shock. I think I was just truly in shock, and then I started to cry. And she then started consoling me at that point."

New author Lynne Spears' "parenting" skills have long been suspect.

Lynne - who sold the story to celebrity news magazine OK! for $1 million - added that she blamed herself for her youngest daughter's personal drama.

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."

Yes, Lynne, it is. But you'll get 'em next time.

"It's kind of like ... Britney was sent out into the world a little bit prematurely." - Lynne Spears, promoting her memoir Through the Storm.

While not officially admitting what a leech she is, Britney Spears' mother did admit, on Today, to some of the mistakes she's made along the way.

When Britney began her career, Lynne said she was a single mother who also had to raise little Jamie Lynn, so she couldn't always be there.

"Did I want to be there? Of course!" she said. "Was it feasible? It wasn't."

Lynne, who also has a 31-year-old son, Bryan Spears, compared her situation to when parents first send their children off to college:

"You don't really know what they're doing in college ... just as Britney set out two years earlier to be a star. She's out there, with the crowds and with her peer groups, and she's doing things - she's a celebrity, for heaven's sake!"

Lynne said she felt she lost control the moment she practically saw Britney Spears naked with a Teletubby on a 1999 cover of Rolling Stone.

She said she wouldn't have agreed to let Britney Spears strip nude, but "we didn't really know what we were doing. We were so in awe. I had never even bought [Rolling Stone], but I just heard this is a really big deal."

"We were kind of in shock at what was going on. It was a two-day shoot. Thank god [manager] Larry Rudolph came in and said, 'Stop, that's enough.'"

So did Lynne Spears get sucked into fame?

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Britney Spears is "furious" with mom Lynne Spears, after Lynne threw her under the bus detailed her past in her new memoir, "Through the Storm."

While the book doesn't dish that much on Britney's sex life or drug use - at least beyond her deflowering (go Reg Jones!) at 14 and some binges in her teens - it blames all of Britney's problems on her former managers.

Britney Spears - who already considered her mother a leech siphon on her purse - is reportedly very upset about the book, especially when she feels Lynne herself caused many of her problems and issues in the past decade.

We don't suspect a quick reconcilation after the release of Lynne's book, which can be best (possibly only) described as an extremely d!ck move.

At present, Britney is only talking to sister Jamie Lynn Spears, brother Bryan Spears and father Jamie Spears, who, as her conservator and guardian, has cleaned up her affairs and put his daughter back on the right track.

Spears, who racked up three VMA wins, is even being allowed out by herself these days. She went to Las Vegas to catch a Cirque du Soleil show!

Afterward, Britney and her hairstylist, Kim Vo, went to Japonais and drank only water before hitting the blackjack tables and going home - sober.

For what was billed as an evangelical book about "parenting," Lynne Spears' widely-ridiculed much-anticipated memoir - Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World - is chock full of tawdry tales.

The New York Daily News reviewed a copy and shared some juicy tidbits:

• Britney Spears took a liking to booze when she was just a 13-year-old Mouseketeer, then began experimenting with drugs at 15.

• By 16, Britney's drug-fueled behavior stunned her family when the wild one was caught with coke and marijuana on a private jet.

• Lynne Spears knew about, yet openly allowed 16-year-old Britney to sleep with boyfriend Justin Timberlake, her Mickey Mouse Club co-star.

• Timberlake was misled about Brit's purity, as she had lost her virginity to a Kentwood, La., high school football player (Reg Jones) at 14.

• As Spears' career began to take off, the All-American mom went along with the hoax that Britney was a virgin to boost her image.

Man, way to throw your daughter under the bus right as she's getting her train wreck life back together, Lynne Spears. Good to see you'd rather try to get rich than do what's best for Britney just once. Enjoy the weather where you're going, sellout.

As we said when we first learned about Through the Storm, we don't think the title and cover do it justice. Here are our proposed versions ...

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You gotta love Lynne Spears. Whoring out your kids for a decade - then trying to make EVEN MORE money off them by writing a memoir about it?

Diabolical. This may trump even Dina Lohan's lofty achievements.

Apparently Lynne has made it Through the Storm. Guess securing huge ass royalty checks, Range Rovers and mansions with ridiculous names by sponging off train wreck kids will get one through just about any storm one might encounter.

In a book so absurd we can't believe it's real, Lynne Spears relays her "parenting tips" in the memoir due out next week. At least Bryan Spears gets a mention. Might as well include the non-screw up, too, right? Peep the cover below ...

Personally, we think the title Through the Storm doesn't do justice to such a compelling life story. Here are a pair of alternate covers we propose ...

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The States of California and Louisiana should revoke all licenses issued to people named Spears immediately. This is definitely a DNA thing.

The mother of pop star Britney Spears ran over a bike-riding youngster with her car and killed him in 1975, the National Enquirer reports.

"To this day, Lynne hasn't gotten over what she did. She gets that terrified look in her eye when she is thinking about it," said a source close to the Spears family, noting that the boy died at the age of 12.

"She has told only a few people about the accident and always says, 'Please don't think I'm a bad person.'"

Lynne Spears was just 20 when the tragedy occurred in her hometown of Kentwood, La., the same year she married Jamie Spears (above).

When the accident happened, Britney and Jamie Lynn Spears' mother was driving her brother to the hospital after he'd suffered an injury.

"It bothers Lynne still to this day," said a rep for Lynne Spears. "She has told only a few people about the accident and always says, 'Please don't think I'm a bad person.' She really doesn't like to talk about it."

Hey, at least Britney Spears hasn't killed anyone - though as we showed you earlier today, it's definitely a good thing K-Fed got custody.

It was a family affair Saturday night as Lynne Spears hung out with Britney Spears and her two kiddies, Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1, for an overnight visit at the troubled singer's home in Studio City, Calif.

THG NOTE: In the span of just a few years, Britney Spears has gone from the biggest star in the world to a train wreck who can't have her own children stay overnight without one of her own parents present. Just saying.

In town since Wednesday, Lynne Spears took Britney out for some mother-daughter bonding, shopping at the True Religion warehouse and Pottery Barn on Friday before enjoying a "girls dinner" of salad, sushi rolls, and fish.

"Britney walked in with a big smile," says an observer. "She was gorgeous, and I have never seen her in a better mood. She was laughing the whole time she was here. Britney seemed to have the best time hanging out with her mom and friends."

Meanwhile, Britney's dad, Jamie Spears, who is her legal conservator as she receives treatment for myriad mental illnesses and is usually by her side 24-7, spent the weekend at his new house in Santa Monica, Calif.

Soon, Lynne will probably return to Louisiana, where l'il Jamie Lynn Spears just gave birth to baby Maddie Briann, and is probably in the process of getting knocked up again right about now. Girl seriously hates condoms.

It's a difficult question, since two of them have already failed miserably in some respects, while the third has been a mom for all of four days.

But now that Jamie Lynn Spears has welcomed baby Maddie Briann Aldridge into the world along with fiance Casey Aldridge, we have to ask:

Who will be the best mom: Lynne, Britney or Jamie Lynn Spears?

Grandmother Lynne Spears (middle) with train wreck daughters Jamie Lynn and Britney Spears. Which of the three is - or will be - the best mother?

As we reported yesterday, Lynne Spears - mom of Britney and Jamie Lynn Spears - is coming out with a new book about raising train wrecks parenting.

This shameless attempt to cash in would give even Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag pause. We can only imagine the wisdom she'll dispense.

Here are some excerpts The Hollywood Gossip would love to read ...

• A key to raising a famous daughter is to replace breast milk with coffee. The instant addiction to caffeine will result in future, 1 am Starbucks runs that can be caught by paparazzi. Cha. Ching.

• When Britney signed with Jive Records, I rewarded myself for all my hard work by signing the lease on a Range Rover.

• Note to mothers whose untalented, teen daughters can only make news by getting pregnant: a thumb tack to a condom works every time!

• I don't understand why people struggle coming up with baby names. You have a name, right? Your husband has a name? Voila!

• Justin Timberlake seemed more interested in a legitimate music career than getting wasted ay Hyde every night. Naturally, he had to go.

• Early on, I learned that Britney and Jamie Lynn will say okay to anything if you push them hard enough... and that OK! will pay for the story.

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