Jamie Lynn Spears has reportedly revealed in her upcoming memoir, “Things I Should Have Said,” that her parents urged her to get an abortion when she was 16 years old.
According to TMZ on Friday (October 22nd), the gossip site obtained excerpts from the book, in which Britney Spears' younger sister shared that she was expecting a child in 2007 and her parents told her becoming a mother wasn't the best decision at that point in her life.
Spears wrote that her dad, Jamie, and mother, Lynne, “came to my room trying to convince me that having a baby at this point in my life was a terrible idea.”
She went on to say that they told her, “'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.'”
Spears added that her parents said that “everyone around me just wanted to make this ‘issue’ disappear…everyone was certain that termination would be the best course of action.”
Jamie Lynn Spears went forward with her pregnancy and welcomed her daughter, Maddie, in 2008.
She also confessed that she didn't share the news with her sister, writing, “I needed her more than ever and she wasn’t able to help me in my most vulnerable time … To this day, the hurt of not being able to tell my sister myself still lingers.”
“Things I Should Have Said” will be available at bookstores on January 18th, 2022.