In her forthcoming memoir, Jamie Lynn Spears is claiming that her parents repeatedly tried to convince her to consider abortion or adoption when she got pregnant aged 16.
Jamie Lynn — who has recently been at the center of public scrutiny for her apparent lack of support for her sister, Britney Spears, while she’s struggled under the terms of her conservatorship — is due to release her candid memoir, titled Things I Should Have Said, early next year.
Both of her parents, Jamie Spears and Lynn Spears, have faced harsh criticism in recent years for their alleged treatment of Britney Spears, especially after the pop star publicly denounced them in an explosive court hearing in June.
Spears accused her entire family — including Jamie Lynn — of doing “nothing” to help her during the course of her conservatorship, which saw her life and finances legally controlled by her father and lawyers starting in 2008.
“My dad and anyone involved in this conservatorship and my management who played a key role in punishing me — ma’am, they should be in jail ... This conservatorship has allowed my dad to ruin my life,” Spears said during the hearing.
And now, in snippets from her upcoming memoir obtained by TMZ, it looks like Jamie Lynn is speaking out against her parents’ alleged treatment of her too.
Jamie Lynn — who starred in teen sitcom Zoey 101 for a few months before finding out she was pregnant in 2007 — claimed that her parents fought with her over her decision not to terminate the pregnancy after they repeatedly tried convincing her to get an abortion.
Speaking of events that followed her telling her parents and management about the pregnancy, Jamie Lynn wrote, “[they] came to my room trying to convince me that having a baby at this point in my life was a terrible idea ... ‘It will kill your career. You are just too young. You don’t know what you’re doing. There are pills you can take. We can help you take care of this problem ... I know a doctor.’”
“Everyone was certain that termination would be the best course of action,” she added. “Everyone around me just wanted to make this ‘issue’ disappear.”
In another passage, Jamie Lynn claimed that she and her dad got into an argument, “slinging words and tossing insults,” when he pushed the idea of adoption. She went on to say that her mom “wore her disappointment like her favorite jacket.”
Jamie Lynn alleged that she and her mom went into hiding during the course of her pregnancy and claimed that she wasn't allowed to tell anyone about it — not even her sister.
“I needed [Britney] more than ever and she wasn’t able to help me in my most vulnerable time,” she wrote. “To this day, the hurt of not being able to tell my sister myself still lingers.”
Jamie Lynn also claimed that she had her phone taken away in a bid to stop her contacting people outside of her family and immediate circle.
Jamie Lynn — who is now 30 and has two children, aged 13 and 3 — has previously been vocal about her experience of having to “hide away” during her first pregnancy.
