Jamie Lynn Spears (L), younger sister of U.S. singer Britney Spears watch the NBA game between the Washington Wizards and Los Angeles Lakers in Los Angeles in this December 17, 2006 file photo. Jamie Lynn, 16, who stars as a schoolgirl in Nickelodeon's popular TV show "Zoey 101," is pregnant.
The cable channel confirmed a report in the forthcoming edition of celebrity gossip magazine OK! that Jamie Lynn Spears is expecting a child. "We respect Jamie Lynn's decision to take responsibility in this sensitive and personal situation. We know this is a very difficult time for her and her family, and our primary concern right now is for Jamie Lynn's well being," Nickelodeon said in a statement e-mailed to Reuters.
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Jamie Lynn Spears, the 16-year-old star of the cable TV comedy series "Zoey 101" and sister of Britney, tells OK! magazine that she's pregnant and that the father is her longtime boyfriend, Casey Aldridge.
"It was a shock for both of us, so unexpected," she says. "I was in complete and total shock and so was he."
Spears is 12 weeks along and initially kept the news to herself when she learned of the pregnancy from an at-home test and subsequent doctor visit, she told the celebrity magazine, which hits stands in New York on Wednesday and the rest of the country by Friday.
"As soon as I found out for sure from the doctor, I took two weeks to myself where I didn't tell anybody," she says. "Only one of my friends knew because I needed to work out what I would do for myself before I let anyone's opinion affect my decision. Then I told my parents and my friends. I was scared, but I had to do what was right for me."
Spears broke the news to her mother, Lynne, just before the Thanksgiving holiday on Nov. 22, the magazine says.
"She was very upset because it wasn't what she expected at all," Spears says. "A week after, she had time to cope with it and became very supportive."
Lynne Spears, already grandmother to Britney's young sons, says: "I didn't believe it because Jamie Lynn's always been so conscientious. She's never late for her curfew. I was in shock. I mean, this is my 16-year-old baby."
She says her actress daughter, the telegenic heroine of the popular Nickelodeon series "Zoey 101" about students at a California boarding school, has known Aldridge for years and began dating him in high school.
Jamie Lynn, a high school junior, plans to raise the baby in her home state of Louisiana -- "so it can have a normal family life."
The third season of "Zoey 101" wraps up Jan. 4.
"I haven't spoken to (Nickelodeon) personally, but they have always been so great to me over the past years and have given me so many opportunities."
What message does she want to send to other teens about premarital sex?
"I definitely don't think it's something you should do; it's better to wait," she says. "But I can't be judgmental because it's a position I put myself in."
Source: Mainichi Daily News
Jamie Lynn Spears, the 16-year-old star of the cable TV comedy series "Zoey 101" and sister of Britney, tells OK! magazine that she's pregnant and that the father is her longtime boyfriend, Casey Aldridge.
"It was a shock for both of us, so unexpected," she says. "I was in complete and total shock and so was he."
Spears is 12 weeks along and initially kept the news to herself when she learned of the pregnancy from an at-home test and subsequent doctor visit, she told the celebrity magazine, which hits stands in New York on Wednesday and the rest of the country by Friday.
"As soon as I found out for sure from the doctor, I took two weeks to myself where I didn't tell anybody," she says. "Only one of my friends knew because I needed to work out what I would do for myself before I let anyone's opinion affect my decision. Then I told my parents and my friends. I was scared, but I had to do what was right for me."
Spears broke the news to her mother, Lynne, just before the Thanksgiving holiday on Nov. 22, the magazine says.
"She was very upset because it wasn't what she expected at all," Spears says. "A week after, she had time to cope with it and became very supportive."
Lynne Spears, already grandmother to Britney's young sons, says: "I didn't believe it because Jamie Lynn's always been so conscientious. She's never late for her curfew. I was in shock. I mean, this is my 16-year-old baby."
She says her actress daughter, the telegenic heroine of the popular Nickelodeon series "Zoey 101" about students at a California boarding school, has known Aldridge for years and began dating him in high school.
Jamie Lynn, a high school junior, plans to raise the baby in her home state of Louisiana -- "so it can have a normal family life."
The third season of "Zoey 101" wraps up Jan. 4.
"I haven't spoken to (Nickelodeon) personally, but they have always been so great to me over the past years and have given me so many opportunities."
What message does she want to send to other teens about premarital sex?
"I definitely don't think it's something you should do; it's better to wait," she says. "But I can't be judgmental because it's a position I put myself in."
Source: Mainichi Daily News
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Jamie Lynn Spears - spokesperson for safe sex?
Singer Alicia Keys reportedly wants Jamie Lynn Spears, who this week announced she was pregnant at the age of just 16, to become a spokesperson for safe sex.
Alicia believes Jamie Lynn should use her unexpected pregnancy to stop other teenagers rushing into bed.
She said: "I think that maybe she can use this opportunity to talk about the ways that it's really important to have safe sex and it's difficult for teens to refrain and restrain but it's really important because it changes your whole life. It's a very serious thing."
Alicia also said Zoey 101 star Jamie Lynn, who is dating 19-year-old Casey Aldridge, may have found it difficult to not have sex because she became famous at such a young age.
She added to US TV show The View: "Different people have different lives and different situations. I think that it is a very intense business and that in a lot of ways you are exposed to so much so quickly, so often there's really no limit to what you can get, or have, or do. Whatever you ask for is there.
"You can be 13. You can be nine. You can be 47. It really doesn't matter. Everything is basically handed to you on a platter.
"But the point is that it gets very hard and difficult because most of the people in the industry are very young and we are influenced easily."
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