14 DAY TRIAL // When word broke that Britney Spears' teen sister was pregnant with her first child, and that she planned to carry the pregnancy to term, there was a lot of talk about how she was glamorizing teen pregnancy. Quite the contrary, Jamie Lynn says now.
The latest issue of Glamour Magazine brings and interview with the singer and actress, just as she's getting ready for her 21st birthday.
Jamie Lynn is ready to get back into the spotlight and to launch a music career but, before she gets down to business, she wants the world to know a few things concerning her – straight from the horse's mouth.
It was never her intention to become pregnant at such an early age, let alone to glamorize teen pregnancy, as the tabloids accused her of doing.
“I believe in safety and birth control as prevention. But like many young girls… I was really scared to go to the doctor. And I was on a Nickelodeon show, and it [felt] especially embarrassing to ask someone to put me on birth control. I didn’t want to ask my doctor, because she had a little girl,” Jamie Lynn says of why she never took the necessary steps to avoid the pregnancy.
Dealing with motherhood as a teen was twice as taxing for her, because she also had to face the harsh criticism from the press, besides the problems and challenges at home.
“I did feel responsible for the young girls and the mothers who I probably confused and let down. I apologize for that. But I wasn’t trying to glamorize teen pregnancy,” Jamie Lynn says.
“I hated when [the tabloids] said that. Everybody is dealt a hand of cards. It was my choice to play them the way I played them. But the hateful comments hurt,” she adds.
She's now preparing to go into music and make her comeback into the spotlight. Spears feels that people never had the chance to know the adult Jamie Lynn because she was just a girl when she went away to raise her child.