SIDENOTE: Oh give me a f***ing break. Lynne was the one to tell her then-husband Jamie to his face that Britney was going to be the family's new meal ticket as soon as the then-little child was showing talent as a dancer. It's been documented that Britney spend most of her childhood going to every talent show that was out there (including Star Search). And all of this was years before the 90's version of The Mickey Mouse Club!



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When Britney began her career, Lynne said she was a single mom who also had to raise Jamie Lynn, so she couldn't always be there.

"Did I want to be there? Of course!" she said. "Was it feasible? It wasn't."

Lynne compared her situation to when parents send their children off to college.

"You don't really know what they're doing in college ... just as Britney set out two years earlier to be a star," she said.

"She's out there, she's with the crowds and with her peer groups, and she's doing things -- she's a celebrity, for heaven's sake!" Lynne added.

Lynne said she felt she lost control the moment Britney posed nearly naked with a Teletubby on a 1999 Rolling Stone cover.

She said she wouldn't have agreed to let Britney strip down, but "we didn't really know what we were doing."

"We were so in awe," she said. "I never even bought [Rolling Stone], but I just heard this is a really big deal."

"We were kind of in shock at what was going on," Lynne continued. "It was a two-day shoot. Thank god [manager] Larry Rudolph came in and said, 'Stop, that's enough.'"

Lynne added, "We didn't have any choice over pictures ... We had no one who could tell us what we were supposed to be doing."

Did Lynne get sucked into fame?

"It was more of an excitement at first," she said. "It seems like everything's fabulous: Look at the trips she gets to go on!

"There was that honeymoon period where it looked like she could do no wrong," Lynne said. "Then there's that ugly side of fame ... and we weren't ready for that."

As things started to unravel -- Britney's 55-hour marriage to Jason Alexander, two kids in two years, her K-Fed divorce, the shaving of her head, stints in rehab -- Lynne said, "it was so crazy.

"I don't think anybody was even trying to sit and think of what was going on," she said. "We were praying very hard. It seemed like we had no control over what was happening."

She was so desperate to get in contact with her daughter she said she remembers telling her friends: "If you see my behind going over that wall into the Summit [Britney's house], it's me because it's my last drastic measure."

Looking back, Lynne said, "I have sat for hours, thinking and thinking about everything that's happened. It's been a whirlwind. When you mix extreme heightened celebrity hood and then when you have heartache ... The mixture's just not healthy."

No you're not. Lynne Spears sounds like a conniving bitch to me too.

Who gives a shit. All she cares about is making money off her no-talent daughters.
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Empress said:

Bingo. I wish parents of celebs would sit their asses down and I can't stand that they get coverage for their antics, most of which are illegal and shady.

JackieBlue said:

Same as that Lohan broad. I can't stand her either. That whole family seems f*cked up too.

Empress said:

That Lohan family makes me itch.

Timmy84 said:

Can't stand 'em. Out of all these young annoying chics I was rooting for Lindsay. I don’t know why. I liked Mean Girls and her song Rumors, sue me. But I have zero tolerance for drunk driving. The last incident when she threw the black kid under the bus was it.

Crazy thing is, why do they all have younger siblings??? As if one wretched spoiled child isn’t enough? If it's not their little sisters, it's their pathetic parents.
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JackieBlue said:

That's what makes me hate them even more and I'm not a hating type of dude but fools like Michael and Dina Lohan and (I forget Britney's father's name) and Lynne Spears tick me off.

She's a backstabber.

Timmy84 said:

Britney's father is Jamie Spears.

But in all fairness to Jaime, at least he was successful in saving Britney's life & career from the downward spiral that it was going. Before he was FINALLY allow to get involved, Britney wasn't listening to anyone.

Hit me Baby one more time!

The epitome of a madam.

Timmy84 said:

Jamie is his name

TonyVanDam said:

Jamie had very little influence anyway. Lynne was always with her and after the Spears divorced Jamie faded further from the picture.

Lynne reminds me of the cheerleading moms who live out their fantasies through their daugthers.

what a shame! i don't think she should of written a book right now either!

Timmy84 said:

cosign

Harlepolis said:

It's common knowledge that the concept behind the video for Baby One More Time was mostly Lynne's idea.

It's the sad case of a mother that was trying to relived her younger years through her own daughter.

ehuffnsd said:

THAT is exactly what Lynne was doing before Britney started to rebelled against her.