In addition to discussing daughter Britney's disintegration, Lynne Spears also opened up on Wednesday's Today show about daughter Jamie Lynn getting pregnant at 16. Lynne recalled how she was planning to go out for lunch when Jamie Lynn called and told her to come home.
At home, Lynne found her daughter's boyfriend, Casey Aldridge, who avoided eye contact. Jamie Lynn then handed her mother a note and told her to go into her bedroom to read it. "It said she was pregnant and everything was going to be OK. She was going to raise it," Lynne told Meredith Vieira. "I thought it was a joke I was waiting for the punch line," Lynne added. "I was in shock. I think I was just truly in shock, and then I started to cry. And she started consoling me at that point."
Lynne -- who sold the story to OK! for $1 million -- added that she blamed herself for her children's personal dramas. "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."
Lynne told Al Roker in a later segment, "A mother is as happy as her most unhappy child. You kind of gravitate toward the one who needs you the most at that time ... It's a balancing act. Maybe I haven't done it as best as I could, but all I ever tell you is I tried." Referencing her book Through the Storm, Roker asked, "Are you through the storm?" "Oh, yes," Lynne said. "We’re through the storm and we're looking at the sunshine right now."
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Gavin Rossdale works on getting the right key out while 2-year-old Kingston James McGregor sucks down a smoothie as the pair (along with Kingston's nanny) go for a Starbucks run on Monday. Gwen Stefani and 3 ½-week-old Zuma stayed home this time, but Gwen did step out with Gavin, 42, on Sunday night. The pair celebrated their sixth wedding anniversary with dinner at Osteria Mozza Restaurant.
Britney Spears, 26, actress Jamie Lynn Spears, their parents Lynne and Jamie (not pictured) sitting on the curb while watching the kids -- 3-year-old Sean Preston, 2-year-old Jayden James, and 3-month old Maddie Briann -- play on Monday. Jamie Lynn, 17, traveled from Louisiana to California with her daughter to celebrate the boys' birthdays with the family.
With ankles crossed (and a baby doll in lap!) Eden and Savannah Mahoney, 19 months this week, smiled for the shutterbugs while headed to the playground with mom Marcia Cross on Sunday in Brentwood. Dad is stockbroker Tom Mahoney, whom Marcia, 46, wed in June 2006.
Michelle Williams rests a hand on daughter Matilda Rose's head while waiting to cross the street in Brooklyn on Saturday. Michelle, 28, and Matilda, 2 ½, had stepped out to get smoothies on a humid weekend in New York. Dad is the late Heath Ledger.
Cover art for Lynne Spears' upcoming memoir, Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World, has hit the Internet. The book is slated for a September 16th release, the $24.99 book (by Thomas Nelson, publisher of inspirational books and Bibles). Some places said it was due August 21.
A product description on christianbook.com reads:
"Lynne was just an ordinary Southern mom when the overnight success of her daughter Britney shoved the Spears family into the blinding limelight glare. Through the Storm takes readers beyond the reach of the paparazzi and outside the narrow orbit of the Hollywood glitterati to share the inside story of the Spears family - as only a mother can tell it.
In this openhearted memoir, Lynne speaks about Britney, Jamie Lynn, Bryan, ex-husband Jamie, herself, and their lives together from Louisiana to Los Angeles, including:
• Lynne's backseat role in Britney's path to fame and how it forever changed their family
• Her regret in abdicating parental authority to managers, agents, and record companies
• The challenges that shaped Lynne and Jamie's marriage and how that affected Bryan, Britney, and Jamie Lynn
• Her response to Jamie Lynn's pregnancy
• The startling events that led to Britney's meltdown and Lynne's showdown with manager Sam Lufti
• How faith, family, and friendships have been her harbor in the storm of paparazzi, tabloid scribblers, and gossip hounds
• Sincere, self-effacing, sometimes spunky, Lynne's memoir reveals the heart of a mother who has struggled through difficult times and how she has held onto her faith and her sense of humor as she tries to hold onto her family.”
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Britney Spears wants to move from her L.A. house to "a lower density, more quiet and less trafficked neighborhood," according to a court document filed by her co-conservators, father Jamie and attorney Andrew Wallet. The singer would like a home "more accessible to parks and recreation areas" for her children, Sean Preston, 2 1/2, and Jayden James, 1 1/2, the document says.
Saturday night was the first time Sean and Jayden spent an overnight visit with Britney, 26, since she was hospitalized at L.A.'s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in January. The sale of her L.A. home would be in "the best interest of [Spears], her Estate and her minor children," the document says.
Earlier this month, Britney was granted permission to sell the six-bedroom home. At the time, mom Lynne told the court that her daughter "intends to return to Louisiana," her home state. Meanwhile, Britney and ex Kevin Federline are preparing for a custody trial, set to begin August 25. Kevin currently has primary custody of their children.
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After spending the last year watching her sister Britney Spears struggle to overcome the pitfalls of fame and, at just 16, announcing her own pregnancy with boyfriend Casey Aldridge, Jamie Lynn Spears tells OK! exclusively that she plans to lead a much more low-key life with her new baby daughter. "More than anything, I just want this baby to have a normal life," Jamie Lynn, 17, told OK!.
And she stayed true to her word when, in the pre-dawn hours of June 21, just two days after her birth, Maddie Briann Aldridge got her first taste of celebrity. Barely 48 hours old, Maddie and her mom, Jamie Lynn were the stars of a finely choreographed dance meant to fool the paparazzi and allow the pair to get home safely without the kind of mad crush that greeted big sis Britney when she tearfully returned to L.A. from Louisiana 12 hours earlier.
State troopers, private security detail and Jamie Lynn look-alikes were all used to sneak mom and baby out of Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center in McComb, Mississippi, and back to their new home in Liberty. The ruse was pulled off successfully with the help of Maddie's grandma Lynne Spears and proud papa Casey Aldridge, 18, who drove Jamie Lynn's SUV with decoys hidden behind a large white sheet in the backseat.
Maddie's birth on June 19 was, thankfully, more low-key. Reports that Jamie Lynn had delivered via C-section were completely false. Her labor began on June 18 — two days before her expected due date — and at 9:33 the next morning, Maddie had made her grand entrance.
Barely more than a child herself, Jamie Lynn has proven to be exceptionally mature in dealing with her pregnancy and motherhood. Her priority is to give Maddie an upbringing that is more Kentwood than Hollywood.
Though Britney, 26, is well on her way to getting her life and career back on track, Jamie Lynn has seen the impact that fame has had on her super-famous sister, including two broken marriages, three stints in rehab and a brutal child-custody battle. "We want to give the baby the most normal life she could ever have," Jamie Lynn tells OK!.
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There is a new baby in the Spears clan! Jamie Lynn Spears and her fiancé Casey Aldridge welcomed a baby girl Thursday morning. PEOPLE confirmed exclusively that the baby was named Maddie Briann.
"Just the family was there," says a source about the birth around 9:30 a.m. at a hospital in Mississippi, near her Louisiana hometown. "Everyone is healthy and happy." Jamie Lynn's sister Britney, father Jamie and brother Bryan flew in Wednesday to be with her for the birth; her mother Lynne had been with her helping her get ready for the baby.
Since announcing her pregnancy in December, Britney’s little sister has retreated from the bright lights of Hollywood, opting for the comforts of her hometown of Kentwood, Louisiana. With her Nickelodeon show Zoey 101 already ended, Jamie Lynn went home to prepare for the birth of her baby.
The actress, 17, and Aldridge, 19, got engaged in March. Recently, the couple purchased a three-bedroom home in Liberty, Mississippi, where Casey went to high school. Over the last few months, Jamie Lynn has kept busy by passing her GED exam, preparing the nursery and attending multiple baby showers.
Jamie Lynn's Zoey 101 costar, Erin Sanders, told PEOPLE earlier this year that the actress will be a fun mother. "She is just a very good-hearted and warm person," he said. "We would always hang out on the set and she is a lot of fun, so I think she's going to be an easygoing, fun mom."
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Lynne Spears's memoir about raising her famous daughters Britney and Jamie Lynn will be released this fall, the publisher confirms to PEOPLE.
"When Jamie Lynn got pregnant, it was put on hold," says a spokesman for Thomas Nelson, which publishes inspirational books and Bibles. "Lynne never stopped working on it because she wants to express her love for her children and tell their stories through a mother's eyes."
Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World is likely to be released in September, says the spokesman. Lynne's manuscript "will not be a parenting book," he says. "It's her story of what it was like being a mom and raising two very famous people. It's a memoir."
Source: www.people.com
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