Jamie Lynn Spears
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| Jamie Lynn Spears | |
 Jamie Lynn Spears of Zoey 101, here seen impersonating her older sister Britney when she was NOT pregnant. | |
| Date of birth: | April 4, 1991 |
Jamie Lynn Spears (born April 4, 1991) is an American actress and the younger sister of pop star Britney Spears. She is perhaps best known for playing the teenager Zoey Brooks on the Nickelodeon television show, Zoey 101, and for getting knocked up.
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[edit] Early life
Jamie Lynn Spears was born in McComb, Mississippi to Jamie and Lynne Spears, who had trouble coming up with an original name. She attended school in McComb at Parklane Academy, where she was a cheerleader and basketball player. "She always liked shaking her pom poms and playing with balls," said older sister Britney. "That's why I call her my Minime."
She finished her education there via online correspondence, and received her GED in February 2008 from Barbie and Ken High School of Kenwoody, Louisiana.
[edit] Career
Spears made her acting debut in the 2002 Paramount film Crossroads, which starred elder sister Britney Spears, in a cameo role as her sister's younger clone.
Spears was a regular performer from 2002 to 2004 on the Nickelodeon dramatic series All That, which was billed as "the preteen All My Children." She starred as the protagonist Zoey Brooks in the award-winning 2005-2009 Nickelodeon boarding school daytime drama Zoey 101, and sang the show's theme song. Beginning in late 2007, her character took up gardening, and strangely began carrying a watermelon under her blouse. The true reason for this was soon revealed.
[edit] Personal life
On December 20, 2007, in an interview with OK! magazine, Spears announced that she was pregnant by her current boyfriend Casey Aldridge. Nickelodeon issued a statement shortly after the announcement, stating the network respected Spears' decision to take responsibility. Network officials said, "Our primary concern is for her well being, and not for a ratings increase this is bound to create for the Nickelodeon Zoey 101 television show, which will feature a surprise episode Friday, so check your local listings."
Spears gave birth to a daughter, Maddie Briann Aldridge, on June 19, 2008 at Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center in McComb, Mississippi. OK! magazine reportedly paid $1 million for the first baby pictures for their July 10, 2008 issue. According to the Guinness Book Of Records‎, the magazine's paying this amount for baby pictures was "pretty damn stupid."
[edit] Controversy
The announcement of Spears' pregnancy generated controversy, as the media was accused of using the story to "glamorize" teenage pregnancy. An article in Tiger Beat magazine said, "morning sickness, weight gain, horribly painful childbirth, then changing 10,000 diapers. But your boobies get bigger! What could be cooler?"
It also meant the threat of charges of statutory rape against Casey Aldridge. Impregnated at age 16, Shields was two years below the age of consent for California, although she was at the legal age for Mississippi. According to District Attorney Greg Hill, "this case is very clear cut. This could mean a serious violation in California, only she apparently didn't get impregnated in California and didn't even live there, even though Casey did, we think, and the difference in their ages was less than two years, unless you go by the state of Texas, which ignores the actual difference and goes by birthdays, in which case it was two years, which is statutory rape in Louisiana, unless the girl's not still a virgin, which we don't know if she was, and there's an exception for adults less than three years older than the minor, but that's in California."
All charges were eventually dropped because, according to Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts, "Nobody could make any sense out of it."
