In keeping with its tradition of putting Heidi Montag or the Spears family on the cover for the 235th consecutive week, Us Weekly proclaims that Mother of the Year Lynne Spears destroyed the lives of daughters Britney and Jamie Lynn.
That’s a bold statement. Not. Just call her Lynne $pear$.
As the shock of the huge Jamie Lynn Spears pregnancy story slowly fades, questions of responsibility and blame have landed on her mother / manager, Lynne.
Jamie Lynn Spears’ own co-star is speaking out against Lynne, who is said to have pushed the 16-year-old in directions she wasn’t comfortable with.
“Jamie wanted something different for her life, and her mother put her in situations she didn’t want to be in,” Alexa Nikolas, Jamie Lynn’s co-star on Zoey 101, said.
Unanimously, multiple friends and family members say that unlike Britney, Jamie Lynn never wanted to be a star. “She never cared about celebrity,” says one old family friend. “She preferred life back home in Kentwood [Louisiana].”
A family friend says Lynne Spears “treats her girls like a piggy bank.”
As soon as Jamie Lynn, 16, confided in her mom, 52, about her pregnancy, Lynne convinced her introverted daughter (to the displeasure of her father, Jamie Spears) to break the news via the cover of OK! Magazine. The price: $1 million.
“Lynne knew OK! would pay the most,” a source said. “It was her decision.”
Which is why even Jamie Lynn’s older sister, Britney Spears, was kept out of the loop at first: “They didn’t want her to run her mouth and screw up the deal.”
Instead, Lynne told K-Fed, which further confused the “singer.”
From the start of Britney Spears’ career in 1998, Lynne, a former teacher, made sure she received a percentage of money off both her daughters’ deals. Shocking.
“Lynne got all her money through those girls and loved it when it started rolling in,” a source says. “She’s the only one with a Land Rover in Kentwood.”
Lynne Spears even managed to get someone to publish a parenting book, written by herself, entitled Pop Culture Mom. It is indefinitely delayed now, however.