Jamie Lynn Spears' Near Abortion, Emancipation Claims Trigger Backlash From Britney Spears Supporters

Jamie Lynn Spears, the sister of Britney Spears, is one of the celebrities that went into the jungle of a show called "I'm a Celeb...Get Me Out of Here."

She's one of the most controversial given who she's related to, and for what she became known for in the past - which was to have a baby at 16 while her career was starting to bloom.

Because there isn't much to do in the Australian bush, celebrities often engage in lengthy chats during which they divulge information to the public that they didn't know before.

I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! host Fred Sirieix and Spears had a very emotional chat on Monday's show.

"Your sister is obviously a superstar, you're a superstar, why? How come the both of you, what made it?," the host asked.

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"I think every family fights and has their stuff but I talked to her before I came here and we love each other," said Spears.

"Oh, I always say this. My mumma, not in a cocky way at all, my mum literally believed we were the best in the world."

Then, Spears talked about how she became pregnant at the age of sixteen and the aftermath.

"After I finished Zoey, I had my love of my life, what I thought, I decided to keep the baby. I was 16. The whole world was like, 'You're a s**t, you're horrible your life is over...'"

In her book "Things I Should Have Said," published in 2021, she had already discussed the difficulties she had at the time with her parents. But she's more detailed now.

Spears said, stating on the ITV program, "They didn't want me to have the baby. A lot of people around me."

"When I got out of that, I told my parents I was going to emancipate them, that way I could make my own decisions. I was secretly telling her I was going to doctor's appointments. I was going to meetings with a lawyer... My poor mum, we put her through it."

"And so then she was like, she didn't want me to do that, she knew that would mean I'd probably marry the father and lose my fortune that I'd amassed over the years of working... she said, 'Just go baby...'. It was the first time I was in control. My mum did [come and visit]. I don't know what's wrong with me, why I wouldn't take the easy route sometimes, but I just don't want to."

Given that Britney Spears just wrote in her own memoir that she had an abortion after the father of the said child - Justin Timberlake - was not ready to be a parent, many said Jamie Lynn just lowkey shamed her sister's own decision.

Some said this is probably why Britney Spears had a heavy baggage all throughout her life - her sister was allowed to make her own decisions at 16, while she was suffered an abortion and even placed at a conservatorship.

While she did not say so, some people just understood her statements that way. Netizens react in varied ways.

Thing is, given all that has been said by the two against each other through the years, fans cannot even believe they talked before Jamie Lynn goes into this show, as she's claiming!

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Britney Spears, Jamie Lynn Spears