“Are you ready? 14 years later…still a jam,” she captioned the post, adding the hashtags: #itdidNOTendbecauseofpregnancy and #contractwasfinished.
Not long afterZoey 101wrapped its fourth season, Spears (then 16 years old)became pregnantwith her first child, daughterMaddie Briann, with then-boyfriend Casey Aldridge.
“Oh wow you didn’t quit because you were pregnant, you waited this long tell us,” one fan wrote.
“Nope,” Spears replied. “I went home to finish high school and was going to pursue movies.”
Another fan asked Spears if the contract would have been extended if not for her pregnancy, to which the actress simply replied, “No.”
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In 2016, Spears reflected on being a teenage mother in an interview with PEOPLE, admitting she “was extremely scared and shocked.”
“I couldn’t believe it,” she said. “Overall, I was a very good young girl who thought she knew everything about love, and clearly, I didn’t. And I think it’s important for young girls to know that honesty and that realness that I went through, ’cause it was scary. It wasn’t all rainbows and daisies.”
“I think that for me, my biggest concern was, ‘Oh my goodness, I need to tell my mother and my father and my family,’ ” she continued. “And that was extremely important to me. And also I was on a Nickelodeon show, so I felt responsible for what these young girls were going to think looking up to me. And, althoughZoeywas completely wrapped, they still hadn’t aired the final episodes. So for me, I felt very responsible.”
Spears said she realized her pregnancy wasn’t just about her, but also “about the people it was going to affect around me.”
“I had to make a decision, obviously, that I could go to sleep with every night, but I definitely felt the weight and responsibility of what my actions were,” she said. “And I had to hold myself accountable, didn’t matter how old I was. I put myself in an adult situation so I needed to handle it like an adult.”
Spears, whomarried Jamie Watsonin 2014, is now a mother of two; the couplewelcomed daughter Ivey Joanin April 2018.
source: people.com
