Lynne And Jamie Lynn Spears Already Pimping Out Baby Photos To OK!
Yep, they like to start ‘em out young down there in the deep South. In this week’s issue of OK! magazine, we get Exclusive! photos and an interview (a setup brokered by none other than mama Lynne, and I’m not linking to the article because I don’t want to give this story any more revenue) with none other than teen mom Jamie Lynn and her new baby Maddie:
“Around here, everyone has the same focus,” Jamie Lynn tells OK!. “The focus is family, and that’s a good way to live.”
And, of course, the focus on the family is the reason Jamie Lynn was able to do real hard stuff like resist the temptation to have unmarried, unprotected, teenage sex with her boyfriend. Because her mama took her under her wing and taught her all sorts of real important stuff mamas are supposed to teach their daughters. Like to apply makeup for your Wal-Mart runs in case a pap is there and how to bat your eyes at a casting call. And how to properly pimp out your infant, just as your mama pimped out your knocked-up self to a national magazine.
Jamie Lynn goes on to tell how wonderful her life is at the moment:
“She is very good,” says Jamie Lynn. “She’ll feed every two or three hours. When she wakes up in the middle of the night, I’ll feed her and she goes right back to sleep. There’s no screaming and crying.”
The proud mama continues, “We get up in the morning, and she gets her little bath. Then I get my bath. We have a routine, and I love routines. I’ve worked one out with her, and we’re happy going about our little life.”
How sweet. Next she’s going to be telling us the baby poops fairies and spits up rainbows. Don’t get too used to it, though. Babies have a way of waking up one morning and deciding that they only need an hour of sleep for every five they are awake, and they also decide it would be a good idea to scream four-and-three-quarters out of the five waking hours, all the while spewing projectile liquidy stuff of multiple colors out of one orifice or another, sometimes all at once.
I know. People are going to say I’m an old prude. I realize that even if you try really hard, sometimes teenagers just insist on having sex and making babies. And if they do, I also realize that you just have to make the best of it. And I even realize that it can turn out well for all concerned. But let’s just face the cold, hard facts…many, many times (I might even say most of the time, considering the epidemic of teen pregnancies) it isn’t the fairy tale that OK! and Jamie Lynn and meemaw Lynne are trying to portray it as. It’s irresponsible of Jamie Lynn, but she doesn’t know any better…meemaw Lynne should know better, and therefore it’s doubly irresponsible of her.
You see, most teen girls who end up pregnant don’t have millions of dollars in the bank, or a nice big house to live in, or an SUV to drive around, or enough money to buy diapers, or even a babydaddy who stuck around after the line turned blue. The sad reality is that for so many of teen mothers, life is hard and it’s extremely difficult to try to make a life for oneself when you’ve got a screaming baby at home. Some are lucky enough to have supportive families. Many don’t, however, and must try to make it on their own in an adult world, when they should be worrying about math tests and after-school jobs instead of midnight feedings and trying to find a babysitter.
Glorifying teen pregnancy in this manner (and giving Jamie Lynn a cool million in the process, which is what her mama’s deal with OK! netted her) makes me sad and despairing for the teens who see this. I don’t know about you, but I’m not going to give one red cent to OK!. I wish little baby Maddie all the best in the world. I also hope that in another sixteen years, history doesn’t repeat itself.
And come on…a million dollars for photos of a baby? Like I’ve said before, babies look like babies. And Maddie, as cute as she is, looks like a baby, just like millions of other babies. Yippie.
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Look at the pic of Cruise on the OK! cover. Someone needs to tell him his pathetic attempt to look like Brad Pitt is FAIL.
As for Jamie-yawn. Why is anyone paying money to look at this girl’s kid?
Comment by Rachel — July 9, 2008 @ 4:15 pm
If I could only secure a million bucks to show off my newborn I’d be pregnant in no time!
You’re NOT being a prude, you make a great point and I agree with you! Masking teen pregnancy with roses and flowers and sprinkles of love and cuteness is plain unrealistic. I live in Portugal and I feel the exact same way, it’s an universal truth – teen pregnancy is a very difficult situation and a lot of girls are abandoned by everyone in their lives. Still, just let the girl be… I’m guessing she’s not the sharpest tool in the shed so it’s not up to us to try and make a spokesperson out of her…
Comment by Clara — July 9, 2008 @ 4:15 pm
Didn’t the 17 girls in Gloucester, MA get pregnant because they saw Jamie Lynn get pregnant?
Comment by number 6 — July 9, 2008 @ 4:29 pm
#3: Are you being serious, or sarcastic?
Comment by k — July 9, 2008 @ 4:45 pm
wow omg i cant believe that britney’s little sister jamie would be having a baby at 17 years old i mean that is insane.the baby is a little cutie
Comment by carly — July 9, 2008 @ 5:34 pm
Amen, K.
This is ridiculous. Can’t wait for Jamie Lynne to endure 7 weeks of colic without Mama Spears around or anyone else to help her. But that’ll never happen because she has a million damn dollars to buy herself a good nanny and she’ll be able to sleep peacefully while someone else does the hard work of raising her child.
Comment by Joanie — July 9, 2008 @ 5:35 pm
A better article about this subject than most.
The dynamics behind teen pregnancy are:
1. the adult birth rate, which teens have followed almost lockstep for 80 years
2. poverty, 60-90% of all teen moms come from poverty, emotionally and financially.
3.sexualization/sex abuse/violence-50-80% have been sexualized (average age 5 ) or abused sexually (average age 9 ), almost all raised in chaotic, angry households.
4. older younger attraction- over 80% of all dads are adults, average age 21.5, while mom delivers at 16.5
5.male abandonment- 85% of all males leave, usually after 2 kids
6. the strange but true statement that, given the lives adults put these kids through, the situations they force upon them, and the grim, sad future they will no doubt have, getting pregnant is the BEST of all the bad choices they could make.
Teen pregnancy is NOT a teen problem, never was, never will be. It’s an adult problem, always was, always will be.
I should know- I speak to high schools and colleges on teen pregnancy.
Comment by rick — July 9, 2008 @ 7:05 pm
Hey umm nice baby shes cute i had a kid when I was 17 and she is 1 now its kool being a teen mom!
Comment by Zulema — July 9, 2008 @ 9:47 pm
Now, we don’t know that the sex she had was unprotected. No form of birth control is 100% effective. Surely responsible grownups understand this?
That being said, it’s easy to love being a mommy when the baby is little. Wait until little Maddie turns into a terrible two year old who screams NO! all the time and sometimes turns into a shrieking, kicking, howling ball of kicking, thrashing toddlerness, flinging snot and spit everywhere. Then we’ll see how fun Jamie Lynn is having…
Comment by Exyank — July 10, 2008 @ 2:57 am
First of all, i think you ARE an old prude. I had my daughter when i was 19. Yes, her father did leave us. Yes, i did live with my mom for a while. But i dont look at being a teen mom as a curse or an epidemic that needs resolution. My daughter is almost 2 now and im pregnant with another, by choice. Children are a blessing no matter how much or how little you have. OK! can give them money for the pictures. big deal. I paid for pictures of my daughter at Sears Portrait Studio. Its the same concept. Just back off and let celebrities be celebrities!!
Comment by Jackie — July 10, 2008 @ 10:39 am
the spears family is garbage, so what else can you expect?
Comment by sally — July 10, 2008 @ 11:47 am
hey leave this poor girl
alone….
she wants to live her teen age life
with a baby let her its
not our buisness…
honestly……
she loves her baby and that is enough..
for every one to know!!!!
how would you feel..
to have a baby and people critisizing you
and ur beautiful baby!!!
jamie if you read this congrats with
you and your wonderfuk baby!!!
best wishes
Comment by mariiz — July 10, 2008 @ 12:39 pm
Apparently the other cool things about about being a teen mom are poor spelling and bad grammar.
Comment by crazymom — July 10, 2008 @ 2:23 pm
Whoever wrote this article needs understand that these things can happen to anybody, and just because jamie lynn has had a baby at such a tender age, doesnt mean she was going round having unprotected sex with her boyfriend no contraception is 100% effective. He has been her only boyfriend they have been together a good 4 years, so its not like she jumped into bed with just anyone.
I think shes handled things really well as some teen moms really wouldnt care for the baby or even worse abort for an easy way out , shes put her baby and her family before her career so i wish her the best of luck shes a strong person and will get through it, and ignore these ignorant people who have nothing better to do than write negative articles about young moms.
Oh and to the peron who said she cant spell, shes from louisiana thats the ways she speaks, and the publisers of ok wrote it that way, thank you very much!.
Comment by eloise — July 10, 2008 @ 3:42 pm
Whoever wrote this article needs understand that these things can happen to anybody, and just because jamie lynn has had a baby at such a tender age, doesnt mean she was going round having unprotected sex with her boyfriend no contraception is 100% effective. He has been her only boyfriend they have been together a good 4 years, so its not like she jumped into bed with just anyone.
I think shes handled things really well as some teen moms really wouldnt care for the baby or even worse abort for an easy way out , shes put her baby and her family before her career so i wish her the best of luck shes a strong person and will get through it, and ignore these ignorant people who have nothing better to do than write negative articles about young moms.
Oh and to the peron who said she cant spell, shes from louisiana thats the ways she speaks, and the publisers of ok wrote it that way, thank you very much!. old prude.
Comment by eloise — July 10, 2008 @ 3:44 pm
Eloise: The person was referring to the bad spelling and poor grammar of the commenters, not Jamie Lynn. Everything in the OK! article was spelled correctly and Jamie Lynn even used proper grammar. Not that you noticed, because it is obvious you didn’t.
Look…no contraception is 100% effective. I realize that. Oh wait, yes there is a 100% effective birth control method…DON’T HAVE SEX. Little spermy guys and little egg girls don’t run obstacle courses to get together or make whee all by themselves, y’know. Did I just say that out loud? Well, somebody needs to. Teens are having babies at an alarming rate and nobody seems to be able to point out that they are having sex and creating babies for all the wrong reasons.
She acted irresponsibly in having sex and getting pregnant and her mother acted irresponsibly in not taking better care of her daughter(s) and teaching them how to act to start with. That’s really where it starts, before any sexual activity happens…at home.
And no, it doesn’t happen to “anyone”. At least not to people who keep their pants on. She is a minor and has no business having babies. She and her mother have no business then parading that baby around and getting money off the baby’s existence to boot. The actions of Lynne and Jamie Lynn are completely irresponsible. I include Casey in the creating of the baby, but he and his family didn’t broker a million-dollar interview deal.
And had you read the article, you would have seen that it was more of a warning against teen pregnancy than trying to diss on Jamie Lynn, while pointing out that while Jamie Lynn is seeing rainbows and butterflies now most teen moms have a much different experience.
I’m glad the baby is safe and healthy, and I do believe babies are blessings. I hope Jamie Lynn has learned a lesson and I hope she grows more mature from this experience. I had hoped she would use this to help prevent other teen pregnancies, not make money off it. But she could have waited until she was married or, I don’t know, at least an ADULT?
And I don’t mind being called an old prude.
Comment by k — July 10, 2008 @ 3:55 pm
Some of these comments are crazy- Please let me make my point about the dynamics of teen pregnancy clearer for all involved.
There is nothing cool about being a teen mom, except in the eyes of other teen moms. Of course you want to be seen as having made a good choice. And most do, considering the social forces working against you. Between sex abuse, violence, poverty, and a zero future, having a baby is something beautiful and happy.
But it’s a short term happiness. Your future will be far far less than if you stayed childless, at least until you graduated high school and college.
Next, it’s not enough to just love your baby. You also have to raise them. Just loving them falls way short of the mark.
As another writer pointed out, it does not just happen to everybody. It happens to people who lose hope. If you want to keep teens from getting pregnant you don’t just give them a condom. You give them hope for a better future. That’s the best contraceptive. And don’t anybody write telling me what a bright future Jamie has. Look at her sister. And her merciless pimp of a mother.
The notions of irresponsibility, promisciousness, sluttiness, laziness play no part of teen pregnancy, none whatsoever. Teens react to society, they don’t act to create it. Tell a teen it’s ok to kill another teen, and they’ll be shocked. Put a rifle in that same teen’s hands and send them off to Iraq, and they see things completely different. The rules about killing change.
Rules change when society forces you into corners. On the surface, teen pregnancy seems stupid, absurd, irrational, dumb. But look at the teen living an angry, sad, bitter, poor upbringing, well, why NOT have a child? It’s a beautiful act.
Lastly, abstinence has no future,and no role in preventing teen pregnancy. It’s like teaching people to lose weight by using the Grapefruit Diet, or the Cabbage Soup Diet. You don’t curb teen pregnancy by curbing sex. Sex plays no role in teen pregnancy, except that it’s the tool used. Do you curb war by curbing rifles?
The reason teen girls should not get pregnant is because they lose power in our world. The will most likely never get to college, never be the bank president, never be the superintendent, never be the owner/CEO/manager. They will be home being moms. Good for some, but in the end, if enough women do it, men will keep running the world. Like they are now.
It’s all about keeping women in power. That’s a good enough reason to not get pregnant young.
Thanks for reading.
Comment by rick — July 10, 2008 @ 7:04 pm
I do agree with most of what you say, Rick. But I do have to disagree about what you have to say about abstinence. If two people (because it often isn’t just the young lady who is having problems with self-esteem) have had a good upbringing and have been taught the proper lessons, if they have had their own self-esteem built up and if they have people around them who love them, they don’t need to go looking for love in all the wrong places with all the wrong people and it is easier to think in terms of abstinence and waiting for the right person. It doesn’t always work that way, but many, many times it does. Abstinence is not just curbing the physical act of sex, but rather disciplining the mind and bringing one’s emotions under control so that the physical act of sex does not happen.
That’s where so many people are wrong about the teaching of abstinence. They think it’s just old fogeys standing around, waggling their finger in your face and saying, “Don’t have sex, bad bad bad!” It’s the teaching of WHY you shouldn’t enter into a sexual relationship, and many of the reasons are the same reasons you stated. The physical act is a very small part of it; the mental and emotional issues are what really must be dealt with. If someone, of any age, is entering into a sexual relationship to fill an emotional hole, then that is what must be dealt with.
I realize it isn’t as simple as saying, “Don’t have sex!”. But it’s a good place to start, since you can’t create babies without it.
If they’ll stop long enough to listen to you, maybe then you can help them discover just what sort of emotional need they’re trying to fill with sex…or better yet, teach them before it becomes an issue.
And I also disagree about the implications of the stay-at-home-mom. What’s wrong with being a SAHM? I am one, and I don’t feel deprived one iota. I have no problem with men running whatever, as long as they do a good job. If, however, there is a woman who can do just as good or better, then give her the job. But men running things versus women running things isn’t what makes women or men powerful. I feel plenty powerful in my own little world, and I have no need within myself to go grab power from somewhere else.
I do agree that the child who ends up pregnant is often looking for something in their life that is missing, which they feel a baby can give to them. It isn’t going to work, but they have nobody in their life to tell them any different. It isn’t until it’s too late that they learn this lesson, if they ever do. I also agree that just loving your baby/child is not enough (a point I’ve said over and over again on this site in many different articles). So many young people simply don’t have the emotional resources they need to draw from, and sadly it’s because they were never taught. This crosses all lines…single parent, two parents, teen parents, old parents, extended family, whatever. So many problems are simply passed from generation to generation and nobody involved knows how to make it stop.
Despite what people may think, I don’t hate teenage moms. I feel for them and above all I want to help them NOT repeat the same mistakes over and over again. Which is, I think, what most of us want.
We’ll just have to agree to disagree on some points. Thanks for the discussion.
Comment by k — July 10, 2008 @ 7:42 pm
Plus, everyone, as I keep saying…the article isn’t about teen pregnancy, but about Lynne and Jamie Lynn painting it in such a rosy color while the reality of most teen pregnancies are so much different. Regardless of how they got that way, Jamie Lynn has at her disposal resources most teen parents do not, and that’s the fundamental difference.
Comment by k — July 10, 2008 @ 8:28 pm
I think that you are wrong in criticizing her b/c like they said this could happen to anyone. You cannot blame Jamie for what happened because you never know if she was or was not using protection.You guys weren’t their while they were together. They only reason you guys critize her so much is because she’s rich if she was a normal girl you guys wouldn’t even care at all. Jamie looks like she is a great person and a great mother. So I think you guys should seriously leave her alone and let her be happy with her new baby girl and let her be the great mother that i know she is going to be.
**Good Luck Jamie i beleive in you and love your acting hope that you keep acting as great as you always have.**
Comment by Lis — July 10, 2008 @ 8:51 pm
If she were a “normal” girl, I would help her as much as I could, as I have done with other young, unmarried teenage girls who have found themselves pregnant and with babies. Just because I have common sense and call things as they are, doesn’t mean I don’t have any milk of human kindness running through my veins. I hurt terribly for young ladies I know who have found themselves teen mothers, and they appreciate my honest yet sincere and loving words. They can tell when somebody is just heaping it on for fear of offending someone’s sensibilities. I will not love them to death.
You can’t do anything with the horse once it’s out of the barn. Get it back in the barn and then you can do something with it.
Comment by k — July 10, 2008 @ 10:19 pm
I love the discussions the Jamie Lynn stories bring <3
My father, a minister, always said when he talked to pregnant mothers who were HAPPY being pregnant, they would often say “I’m happy because someone will finally love me!”, or something to that degree. The baby would of course NEED them to live, and that mother/child bond was what these girls thought they needed after years of abuse (in whatever form) from their families. He said the ones who DIDN’T seem thrilled about their pregnancy were girls who had just been careless.
People seem to forget about the type of sex that IS safe against pregnancies… and it’s more fun than abstinence! ORAL SEX. Or anything before that base… I mean, if you just can’t keep yourself from someone else’s genitals, you can at least keep yourself baby-free (not necessarily STD free, but…). That’s what I did in my early twenties while I was still in school. Now I’m 24 and in a serious relationship where if I did get pregnant (still use two forms of birth control though) it wouldn’t interrupt my schooling, I’m probably going to marry my boyfriend anyway, and I can afford one on my salary. I’m sure it will be a beautiful thing if I got pregnant in the next few years, after I’m married and more comfortable with my life, but I’m glad I waited.
OK Magazine makes me sick. Don’t make teen pregnancy seem okay!! It’s not cute and special! Maybe it will be fine for Jamie Lynn, but no little girl needs to think that’s a good path for her to follow.
And besides…. I just don’t care. She’s Jamie Lynn Spears, someone I didn’t even know existed before her pregnancy.
Comment by Brooke — July 11, 2008 @ 12:48 am
For all that im gunna say is that I think Jamie is super hot, beautiful, n i would love to be her BF! lol. Second, i think babies are the most beautiful thing that can happen to anyone, young people, adults, they just got to face it, wheather it was a mistake or on purpose. Im 19 n i would love to have a kid right now, but i dont think i have the time for resposiblities… thats why we all have condoms right??
Thanks for reading!
Comment by Pablo — July 11, 2008 @ 2:15 am
Far point about the spelling
i stand corrected, but its going to be a natural thing to be having sex after 4 years god shes only human not having sex isnt the answer, we have all been there im sure.
Its not just teen mums who are sticking up for her.
I guess noone could know how it feels till it happens to them or there daughter, were i come from most girls just get pregnant to get money from the government and dont work.Its shocking some of the things i see and how children are treated my parents both work in schools and some of the things i here about children having to be taken into care because there dumb drugged up teen mum cant look after them.
Shes handled it well, and she quoted that the money from the magazine is going in the bank towards maddies future.
Comment by eloise — July 11, 2008 @ 5:40 am
Anyway guys this has been a good way of sharing or thoughts and views, and its nice to read all of them.
Comment by eloise — July 11, 2008 @ 5:53 am
This was one of the few sites that was supportive and not disparaging to the beautiful young mommy and cute little baby. Thank you, because I am really tired of and hurt by the American peoples hatred of life.
Comment by Fred — July 11, 2008 @ 11:03 pm
who actually cares about this….you wasted 30min of life typing paragraphs about a Spears child! So not worth it
Comment by noone — July 12, 2008 @ 10:37 am
i think it was the right thing to do to have the baby it showed just how much of an adult the couple is turning in to…
Comment by sam — July 14, 2008 @ 1:13 pm
Jamie lynn spears………..ur crazy!!!!!well good luck with maddie treat her well!!!!!! And the baby is cute she doent not look nothing like it father lol bye
Comment by Jasmine — July 16, 2008 @ 2:04 pm