Friend: Jamie Lynn Spears gives birth to a girl

Thu Jun 19, 2008 1:12 PM EDT
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JACKSON — Jamie Lynn Spears gave birth to a baby girl Thursday morning at a south Mississippi hospital, according to a friend of the Spears family. The friend, who asked not to be identified because the family had not yet announced the baby's birth, told The Associated Press that the baby was named Maddie Briann and weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces.

The 17-year-old Jamie Lynn was the star of Nickelodeon's "Zoey 101," a sitcom about prep school friends, and is the younger sister of pop star Britney Spears. The Spears family announced in December that Jamie Lynn was pregnant. The father is Casey Aldridge, a pipe-layer from Liberty, Miss. The couple is not married but announced an engagement several months ago.

Ellen Brannan, spokeswoman for Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center, in McComb, would not give out any details. "We understand everybody's interested, but we don't give out information on anyone. Everyone's entitled to their privacy," she said.

The younger Spears lives near Liberty with Aldridge, 19, and has been seen around the small south Mississippi town often as her pregnancy became more apparent. Her family owns a home across the state line in Kentwood, La.

Spears announced her pregnancy through an article in OK! Magazine and was expected to receive a large payday for exclusive pictures of the newborn.

Nickelodeon issued a statement about the birth on Thursday, saying, "We wish her and her family well." Nickelodeon spokeswoman Marianne Romano said that filming of the fourth and final season of "Zoey 101" was completed last summer before Spears became pregnant.

Spears portrayed Zoey Brooks, a student at Pacific Coast Academy, a campus that had been an exclusive all-boys boarding school until Zoey and a handful of other girls arrived. At the end of the series, Zoey gets the boy — longtime crush Chase (Sean Flynn).

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Associated Press writers Erin Carlson in New York and Mary Foster in McComb, Miss., contributed to this report.

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nano404

Another one down for the count.

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Reply#1 - Thu Jun 19, 2008 2:58 PM EDT
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bobo2854

Just another salvo for the bleeding hearts to use in their;

"Hollywood, Video Games and Television are the cause of all our troubles"

Defense. She is all ready, along with the movies Juno & Knocked up, being blamed for that group of 17 year olds getting pregnant at the same time. For the Fun of it.

Of course parents are not to blame? my, my NO

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    Reply#2 - Fri Jun 20, 2008 12:58 PM EDT
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    KLM

    Why do young teenage girls think that it is cool to have a baby when they are still basically a child themselves? A baby is not a doll to be placed aside when they grow tired of it.

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