The “Sweet Magnolias” actress opened up about packing up and leaving Hollywood to raise her daughter in the “middle of nowhere” when she was 15.
Jamie Lynn Spears opened up about her “personal” decision to step away from the limelight when she got pregnant at 15.
“That was something I took responsibility for the way that made sense for me,” Spears, now 32, told Hannah Brown on Wednesday’s episode of theSpeaking about the backlash she received at the time, the mom of two said, “That doesn’t make sense for everyone else, but it made sense for me and the whole world came down and told me I was the worst human alive for doing so and that every young girl who ever watched my show was going to be ruined because of me and my personal decision.
At the time, she quit the hit Nickelodeon show “Zoey 101,” which ran from 2005 to 2008, to focus on her pregnancy.The “Sweet Magnolias” star cut her career short and moved to Mississippi to raise daughter Maddie, whom she gave birth to in 2008.Following her decision to leave the show behind, Spears used her teen pregnancy as a way to start all over again — this time, in the “middle of nowhere” in Mississippi.
She detailed that she got rid of her cell phone and opted for a “house phone” instead. However, she encouraged people to not contact her.
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