13 Celebrities Who Got Pregnant In Their Teens Which You Probably Don't Know About
Giving birth to a child is the best feeling for a mom, they say, but for a teen, it is no joke. Specially, when the mom is a celebrity, it is even harder to deal with the criticism and hate from the fans.
Yes, they made a mistake, but the support of family and friends helped them to overcome a hard time of their lives.
Here are 13 celebs, who got pregnant in their teens only.
1. Palin, when she was just 17 years old.
Bristol Sheeran Marie Palin is born on October 18, 1990 (age 26) Wasilla, Alaska, U.S.She was named "Bristol" after the Bristol Inn where her mother Sarah was employed; Bristol, Connecticut, the headquarters city of ESPN, where her mother Sarah hoped to work as a sportscaster; and the Bristol Bay area of Alaska, where her father Todd grew up.She came into limelight when her conservative mother Sarah Palin ran for the Vice-Presidential nomination in 2008. In 2005, when she was pregnant with her second child, she revealed that the first experience was 'disappointing'.
Palin first became the subject of media attention when her pregnancy was announced during her mother's unsuccessful run for Vice President.In February 2009, she told Fox News that abstinence is "not realistic at all," but that she would like it to become more accepted among people her age.In May 2009, Palin was named a Teen Pregnancy Prevention Ambassador for the Candie’s Foundation,a teen pregnancy prevention organization that is a division of the Candie's clothing brand.Her duties as a paid spokeswoman involved attending town hall meetings, talking about abstinence, public service announcements, and giving interviews on morning talk shows.
2. Emily Maynard, when she was 18 years old.
Emily Maynard is born on 1 February 1986 (age 31 years), Morgantown, West Virginia, United States.She was on the eighth season of The Bachelorette. She was engaged to NASCAR driver Ricky Hendrick, her high school sweetheart, for six months when he died in a plane crash on October 24, 2004. After his death, Emily found out she was pregnant and her daughter Josephine Riddick ‘Ricki’ Hendrick was born June 29, 2005. Emily now lives with her daughter in Charlotte, North Carolina. Emily is a full-time mom, but she finds time to volunteer at the Hendrick Marrow program, Levine Children’s Hospital, and the lunch buddy program at Hidden Valley Middle School. She hopes to go on a mission trip to Africa.
After her fiancé was killed in a plane crash, Emily tried to find love on-camera on The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. She was given the final rose by Brad Womack on The Bachelor, but their relationship fizzled soon after. As The Bachelorette, Emily chose Jef Holm. The couple split two months later.
Maynard is best-known for appearing on season 15 of The Bachelor, then getting a second chance to find love on the season 8 of The Bachelorette.
3. Keisha Castle-Hughes, when she was 17 years old.
The Oscar-nominated actress got pregnant at 17 years old. Her daughter lives in NZ with her father while she is in LA.
Keisha Castle-Hughes is born on 24 March 1990,is a New Zealand actress who rose to prominence for playing Paikea "Pai" Apirana in the film Whale Rider. The film was nominated for many awards, including an Academy Award for Best Actress for which she was at the time the youngest person nominated in the Best Actress category and an award at the Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards for Best Young Actor/Actress, which she won in 2004.
In October 2006, it was announced that Castle-Hughes and boyfriend Bradley Hull were expecting a child together.Their daughter, Felicity-Amore Hull, was born on 25 April 2007.Castle-Hughes and Hull broke up in 2010 after seven years together.
In 2002, Castle-Hughes made her debut in the film Whale Rider, in which she played the main role of Paikea Apirana. Keisha is best known for her starring role of virgin marry in "The Nativity Story
Caryn Elaine Johnson is born on November 13, 1955 ,known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg,is an American actress, comedian, author and television host. She has been nominated for 13 Emmy Awards for her work in television and is one of the few entertainers who has won an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Oscar, and a Tony Award. She was the second black woman in the history of the Academy Awards to win an acting Oscar.
In 1992, she starred as a pretend nun in the comedy "Sister Act'. From 1998 to 2002, she was co-producer of the television game show "Hollywood Squares'. Since 2007, she has been the moderator of the daytime television talk show "The View'.
Whoopi Goldberg got pregnant with a girl when she was just 18. Goldberg has been married three times—in 1973 to Alvin Martin divorced in 1979. Alexandrea "Alex" Martin born on May 9, 1973 is the daughter of "Whoopi Goldberg'.
Goldberg is one of the few persons to win an Oscar, a Grammy, a Tony, and an Emmy. She has been seen in over 150 films, and during a period in the 1990's, Whoopi was the highest-paid actress of all time.
Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara is born on July 10, 1972,is a Colombian-American actress and model. Vergara was born to a Roman Catholic family in Barranquilla.Her mother, Margarita Vergara de Vergara, was a homemaker, and her father, Julio Enrique Vergara Robayo, was a cattle rancher for the meat industry..In 2014, she was ranked as the 32nd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.
In October 2006, it was announced that Castle-Hughes and boyfriend Bradley Hull were expecting a child together.Their daughter, Felicity-Amore Hull, was born on 25 April 2007.Castle-Hughes and Hull broke up in 2010 after seven years together.
In 2002, Castle-Hughes made her debut in the film Whale Rider, in which she played the main role of Paikea Apirana. Keisha is best known for her starring role of virgin marry in "The Nativity Story
4. Whoopi Goldberg, when she was 18 years old.
Caryn Elaine Johnson is born on November 13, 1955 ,known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg,is an American actress, comedian, author and television host. She has been nominated for 13 Emmy Awards for her work in television and is one of the few entertainers who has won an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Oscar, and a Tony Award. She was the second black woman in the history of the Academy Awards to win an acting Oscar.
In 1992, she starred as a pretend nun in the comedy "Sister Act'. From 1998 to 2002, she was co-producer of the television game show "Hollywood Squares'. Since 2007, she has been the moderator of the daytime television talk show "The View'.
Whoopi Goldberg got pregnant with a girl when she was just 18. Goldberg has been married three times—in 1973 to Alvin Martin divorced in 1979. Alexandrea "Alex" Martin born on May 9, 1973 is the daughter of "Whoopi Goldberg'.
Goldberg is one of the few persons to win an Oscar, a Grammy, a Tony, and an Emmy. She has been seen in over 150 films, and during a period in the 1990's, Whoopi was the highest-paid actress of all time.
5. Sophia Vergara got pregnant when she was 19 years old.
Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara is born on July 10, 1972,is a Colombian-American actress and model. Vergara was born to a Roman Catholic family in Barranquilla.Her mother, Margarita Vergara de Vergara, was a homemaker, and her father, Julio Enrique Vergara Robayo, was a cattle rancher for the meat industry..In 2014, she was ranked as the 32nd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.
Vergara rose to prominence while co-hosting two television shows for Spanish-language television network Univisión in the late 1990s. Her first notable acting job in English was in the film Chasing Papi (2003). Subsequently, she appeared in other films, including Four Brothers (2005) and two Tyler Perry films: Meet the Browns (2008) and Madea Goes to Jail (2009), receiving an ALMA Award nomination for the latter. Vergara's success on television has earned her roles in films The Smurfs (2011), New Year's Eve (2011), Happy Feet Two (2011), The Three Stooges (2012), Escape from Planet Earth (2013), Machete Kills (2013), Chef (2014), and Hot Pursuit (2015). In 2012, 2013, and 2016, she was the top-earning actress on US television.
Vergara was married at the age of 18 to her high-school sweetheart, Joe Gonzalez. They have a son named Manolo born September 1992. They divorced in 1993.
Nicole Renee Taylor is born on March 5, 1975 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.She was raised in Pembroke Pines, Florida, and attended Cooper City High School.
When she was 13, Taylor signed with Irene Marie Models in South Florida. There she met photographer Jean Renard, who later became her manager. She subsequently won a Fresh Faces contest in New York City and a $500,000 modelling contract. Taylor's first magazine cover was an issue of Seventeen (August 1989) at 14. The following year, at 15, she graced the cover of Vogue, becoming the second youngest person to grace the cover of the magazine, after "Brooke Shields'.
A few months after graduating from high school in the spring of 1993, Taylor met former Miami Hooters linebacker Matt Martinez during a coin-toss at an Arena football game in Miami. Three months later, in January 1994, they eloped to Las Vegas. On July 19, 1994, a 4-months-pregnant Taylor married Martinez in a more traditional wedding ceremony in McCammon, Idaho. In December 1994, the couple had twin sons, Jake and Hunter. Less than two years later, Taylor and Martinez divorced.
Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928 and died on May 28, 2014.She was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees.
With the publication of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings', Angelou publicly discussed aspects of her personal life. She was respected as a spokesperson for black people and women, and her works have been considered a defense of black culture. Her works are widely used in schools and universities worldwide although attempts have been made to ban her books from some U. S. libraries. Angelou's most celebrated works have been labeled as autobiographical fiction, but many critics consider them to be autobiographies. She made a deliberate attempt to challenge the common structure of the autobiography by critiquing, changing and expanding the genre. Her books center on themes such as racism, identity, family and travel.
At the age of eight, while living with her mother, Angelou was sexually abused and raped by her mother's boyfriend, a man named Freeman. She told her brother, who told the rest of their family. Freeman was found guilty but was jailed for only one day. Four days after his release, he was murdered, probably by Angelou's uncles. Angelou became mute for almost five years, believing, as she stated, "I thought, my voice killed him; I killed that man, because I told his name. And then I thought I would never speak again, because my voice would kill anyone.
During World War II, Angelou attended the California Labor School. Before graduating, she worked as the first black female streetcar conductor in San Francisco. Three weeks after completing school, at the age of 17, she gave birth to her son, Clyde ,who later changed his name to Guy Johnson.
Aretha Louise Franklin is born on March 25, 1942 in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter and musician. Franklin began her career singing gospel at her father, minister C. L. Franklin's church as a child.
In 1960, at the age of 18, Franklin embarked on a secular career, recording for Columbia Records but only achieving modest success. Following her signing to Atlantic Records in 1967, Franklin achieved commercial acclaim and success with songs such as "Respect", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" and "Think". These hits and more helped her in gaining the title The Queen of Soul by the end of the 1960's decade.Franklin has won a total of 18 Grammy Awards and is one of the best-selling artists of all time, having sold over 75 million records worldwide.
The mother of four sons, Franklin gave birth to her first son, Clarence, shortly after she turned 14. Her first two sons' fathers have never been identified. While Franklin was pursuing her career and "hanging out with friends", Franklin's grandmother Rachel and sister Erma took turns raising the children.
Franklin has married twice. She married Ted White in 1961, despite objections from her father. After a contentious marriage that involved domestic violence, she divorced White in 1969. She then married her second husband, actor Glynn Turman, on April 11, 1978 at her father's church.
Oprah Gail Winfrey is born on January 29, 1954, is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011 in Chicago, Illinois.
Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighbourhood. She has stated that she was molested during her childhood and early teens and became pregnant at 14, her son died in infancy when sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19.
Winfrey was named "Orpah" on her birth certificate after the biblical figure in the Book of Ruth, but people mispronounced it regularly and "Oprah" stuck.
Winfrey has co-authored five books. At the announcement of a weight loss book in 2005, co-authored with her personal trainer Bob Greene, it was said that her undisclosed advance fee had broken the record for the world's highest book advance fee, previously held by the autobiography of former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
Solange Piaget Knowles is born on June 24, 1986 is an American singer, songwriter, model and actress. Expressing an interest in music from an early age, Knowles had several temporary stints in Destiny's Child, before signing with her father Mathew Knowles's Music World Entertainment.
Knowles is heavily influenced by Motown girl groups and says that her first passion is songwriting. She is frequently compared by the media to her sister, Beyoncé, but Solange insists they have different aspirations and are musically different. Her other ventures include an endorsement deal with "Rimmel London' and a line of hip-hop-oriented merchandise for young children. On November 16, 2014, Knowles married music video director "Alan Ferguson' in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Knowles married Daniel Smith in February 2004 when she was 17.On October 18, 2004, Knowles gave birth to their son, Daniel Julez J. Smith, Knowles has partly expressed regret that she bore a child at an early age, but calls her son the greatest unplanned blessing. A song she wrote for her baby, "6 O'Clock Blues", was included on Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams.
Fantasia Monique Taylor is born on June 30, 1984, known professionally by her mononym Fantasia, is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and actress. She rose to fame as the winner of the third season of the reality television series American Idol in 2004.
In 2004 She released her debut single, "I Believe," which debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Subsequently, she released her debut album, Free Yourself, which went on to be certified Platinum by the RIAA and garnered Taylor three Grammy nominations in 2006. In 2006, she released her second album, Fantasia, which featured the single "When I See U" which topped the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for eight weeks.
She attended Andrews High School in High Point, North Carolina. Feeling embarrassed and harassed after she was raped by a classmate, she dropped out of high school. She became pregnant at 16, and on August 8, 2001, gave birth to her daughter, Zion Quari Barrino with her ex-boyfriend "Brandel Shouse'.
On February 13, 2011, Fantasia won her first Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for "Bittersweet"
Anna Nicole Smith was born on November 28, 1967 and died on February 8, 2007, was an American model, actress, and television personality. Smith first gained popularity in Playboy, winning the title of 1993 Playmate of the Year. She modelled for fashion companies including Guess, H&M, Heatherette, and Lane Bryant.
Smith dropped out of high school and was married three years later in 1985. Her highly publicized second marriage to J. Howard Marshall resulted in speculation that she married the octogenarian mainly for his money, which she denied. Following Marshall's death, Smith began a lengthy legal battle over a share of his estate. Her case, Marshall v. Marshall, reached the U.S. Supreme Court on a question of federal jurisdiction, and again on a question of bankruptcy court authority.
While working at Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken in Mexia, Smith met Billy Wayne Smith, who was a cook at the restaurant; the couple married on April 4, 1985. Daniel Wayne Smith son of Anna Nicole Smith was born on January 22, 1986 and died on September 2010 due to accidentally overdosed on methadone, Zoloft and Lexapro.
Jamie Lynn Spears was born on April 4, 1991 is an American actress, singer and songwriter. The younger sister of recording artist Britney Spears, she is known for her role as Zoey Brooks on the Nickelodeon teen sitcom Zoey 101, on which she starred from 2005 to 2008.
Spears became the subject of significant media attention and controversy in 2007, when she announced she was pregnant at age 16, effectively sending her career into hiatus. In 2013, Spears launched a career in country music. She released her debut single, "How Could I Want More", along with her debut EP, The Journey.
She attended Parklane Academy, where she was a cheerleader and point guard of the basketball team. She finished her education via online correspondence and received her GED in February 2008 through Tangipahoa Parish School System Adult Education Centre.
On December 20, 2007, in an interview with OK! magazine, Spears announced that she was pregnant by her then-boyfriend, "Casey Aldridge'. She was 16 years old at the time. Aldridge, whom she had been dating for two years, was 18. Spears gave birth to a daughter, "Maddie Briann Aldridge', on June 19, 2008, at Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Centre in McComb, Mississippi.
Spears and Aldridge called off their engagement in March 2009, and Spears ended the relationship and moved out in February 2010. She subsequently began a relationship with Jamie Watson, a voice actor and businessman who owns communications service Advanced Media Partners. After two years of off and on dating, they announced their engagement in March 2013.On March 14, 2014, she married Watson in New Orleans
Vergara was married at the age of 18 to her high-school sweetheart, Joe Gonzalez. They have a son named Manolo born September 1992. They divorced in 1993.
6. Niki Taylor, when she was 18 years old.
Nicole Renee Taylor is born on March 5, 1975 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.She was raised in Pembroke Pines, Florida, and attended Cooper City High School.
When she was 13, Taylor signed with Irene Marie Models in South Florida. There she met photographer Jean Renard, who later became her manager. She subsequently won a Fresh Faces contest in New York City and a $500,000 modelling contract. Taylor's first magazine cover was an issue of Seventeen (August 1989) at 14. The following year, at 15, she graced the cover of Vogue, becoming the second youngest person to grace the cover of the magazine, after "Brooke Shields'.
A few months after graduating from high school in the spring of 1993, Taylor met former Miami Hooters linebacker Matt Martinez during a coin-toss at an Arena football game in Miami. Three months later, in January 1994, they eloped to Las Vegas. On July 19, 1994, a 4-months-pregnant Taylor married Martinez in a more traditional wedding ceremony in McCammon, Idaho. In December 1994, the couple had twin sons, Jake and Hunter. Less than two years later, Taylor and Martinez divorced.
7. Maya Angelou, when she was 17 years old.
Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928 and died on May 28, 2014.She was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees.
With the publication of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings', Angelou publicly discussed aspects of her personal life. She was respected as a spokesperson for black people and women, and her works have been considered a defense of black culture. Her works are widely used in schools and universities worldwide although attempts have been made to ban her books from some U. S. libraries. Angelou's most celebrated works have been labeled as autobiographical fiction, but many critics consider them to be autobiographies. She made a deliberate attempt to challenge the common structure of the autobiography by critiquing, changing and expanding the genre. Her books center on themes such as racism, identity, family and travel.
At the age of eight, while living with her mother, Angelou was sexually abused and raped by her mother's boyfriend, a man named Freeman. She told her brother, who told the rest of their family. Freeman was found guilty but was jailed for only one day. Four days after his release, he was murdered, probably by Angelou's uncles. Angelou became mute for almost five years, believing, as she stated, "I thought, my voice killed him; I killed that man, because I told his name. And then I thought I would never speak again, because my voice would kill anyone.
During World War II, Angelou attended the California Labor School. Before graduating, she worked as the first black female streetcar conductor in San Francisco. Three weeks after completing school, at the age of 17, she gave birth to her son, Clyde ,who later changed his name to Guy Johnson.
8. Aretha Franklin, when she was just 14 years old.
Aretha Louise Franklin is born on March 25, 1942 in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter and musician. Franklin began her career singing gospel at her father, minister C. L. Franklin's church as a child.
In 1960, at the age of 18, Franklin embarked on a secular career, recording for Columbia Records but only achieving modest success. Following her signing to Atlantic Records in 1967, Franklin achieved commercial acclaim and success with songs such as "Respect", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" and "Think". These hits and more helped her in gaining the title The Queen of Soul by the end of the 1960's decade.Franklin has won a total of 18 Grammy Awards and is one of the best-selling artists of all time, having sold over 75 million records worldwide.
The mother of four sons, Franklin gave birth to her first son, Clarence, shortly after she turned 14. Her first two sons' fathers have never been identified. While Franklin was pursuing her career and "hanging out with friends", Franklin's grandmother Rachel and sister Erma took turns raising the children.
Franklin has married twice. She married Ted White in 1961, despite objections from her father. After a contentious marriage that involved domestic violence, she divorced White in 1969. She then married her second husband, actor Glynn Turman, on April 11, 1978 at her father's church.
9. Oprah Winfrey, when she was 14 years old.
Oprah Gail Winfrey is born on January 29, 1954, is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011 in Chicago, Illinois.
Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighbourhood. She has stated that she was molested during her childhood and early teens and became pregnant at 14, her son died in infancy when sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19.
Winfrey was named "Orpah" on her birth certificate after the biblical figure in the Book of Ruth, but people mispronounced it regularly and "Oprah" stuck.
Winfrey has co-authored five books. At the announcement of a weight loss book in 2005, co-authored with her personal trainer Bob Greene, it was said that her undisclosed advance fee had broken the record for the world's highest book advance fee, previously held by the autobiography of former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
10. Solange Knowles, when she was 17 years old.
Solange Piaget Knowles is born on June 24, 1986 is an American singer, songwriter, model and actress. Expressing an interest in music from an early age, Knowles had several temporary stints in Destiny's Child, before signing with her father Mathew Knowles's Music World Entertainment.
Knowles is heavily influenced by Motown girl groups and says that her first passion is songwriting. She is frequently compared by the media to her sister, Beyoncé, but Solange insists they have different aspirations and are musically different. Her other ventures include an endorsement deal with "Rimmel London' and a line of hip-hop-oriented merchandise for young children. On November 16, 2014, Knowles married music video director "Alan Ferguson' in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Knowles married Daniel Smith in February 2004 when she was 17.On October 18, 2004, Knowles gave birth to their son, Daniel Julez J. Smith, Knowles has partly expressed regret that she bore a child at an early age, but calls her son the greatest unplanned blessing. A song she wrote for her baby, "6 O'Clock Blues", was included on Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams.
11. Fantasia Barrino, when she was just 16 years old.
Fantasia Monique Taylor is born on June 30, 1984, known professionally by her mononym Fantasia, is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and actress. She rose to fame as the winner of the third season of the reality television series American Idol in 2004.
In 2004 She released her debut single, "I Believe," which debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Subsequently, she released her debut album, Free Yourself, which went on to be certified Platinum by the RIAA and garnered Taylor three Grammy nominations in 2006. In 2006, she released her second album, Fantasia, which featured the single "When I See U" which topped the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for eight weeks.
She attended Andrews High School in High Point, North Carolina. Feeling embarrassed and harassed after she was raped by a classmate, she dropped out of high school. She became pregnant at 16, and on August 8, 2001, gave birth to her daughter, Zion Quari Barrino with her ex-boyfriend "Brandel Shouse'.
On February 13, 2011, Fantasia won her first Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for "Bittersweet"
12. Anna Nicole Smith, when she was 19 years old.
Anna Nicole Smith was born on November 28, 1967 and died on February 8, 2007, was an American model, actress, and television personality. Smith first gained popularity in Playboy, winning the title of 1993 Playmate of the Year. She modelled for fashion companies including Guess, H&M, Heatherette, and Lane Bryant.
Smith dropped out of high school and was married three years later in 1985. Her highly publicized second marriage to J. Howard Marshall resulted in speculation that she married the octogenarian mainly for his money, which she denied. Following Marshall's death, Smith began a lengthy legal battle over a share of his estate. Her case, Marshall v. Marshall, reached the U.S. Supreme Court on a question of federal jurisdiction, and again on a question of bankruptcy court authority.
While working at Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken in Mexia, Smith met Billy Wayne Smith, who was a cook at the restaurant; the couple married on April 4, 1985. Daniel Wayne Smith son of Anna Nicole Smith was born on January 22, 1986 and died on September 2010 due to accidentally overdosed on methadone, Zoloft and Lexapro.
13. Jamie-Lynn Spears, when she just 16 years old.
Jamie Lynn Spears was born on April 4, 1991 is an American actress, singer and songwriter. The younger sister of recording artist Britney Spears, she is known for her role as Zoey Brooks on the Nickelodeon teen sitcom Zoey 101, on which she starred from 2005 to 2008.
Spears became the subject of significant media attention and controversy in 2007, when she announced she was pregnant at age 16, effectively sending her career into hiatus. In 2013, Spears launched a career in country music. She released her debut single, "How Could I Want More", along with her debut EP, The Journey.
She attended Parklane Academy, where she was a cheerleader and point guard of the basketball team. She finished her education via online correspondence and received her GED in February 2008 through Tangipahoa Parish School System Adult Education Centre.
On December 20, 2007, in an interview with OK! magazine, Spears announced that she was pregnant by her then-boyfriend, "Casey Aldridge'. She was 16 years old at the time. Aldridge, whom she had been dating for two years, was 18. Spears gave birth to a daughter, "Maddie Briann Aldridge', on June 19, 2008, at Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Centre in McComb, Mississippi.
Spears and Aldridge called off their engagement in March 2009, and Spears ended the relationship and moved out in February 2010. She subsequently began a relationship with Jamie Watson, a voice actor and businessman who owns communications service Advanced Media Partners. After two years of off and on dating, they announced their engagement in March 2013.On March 14, 2014, she married Watson in New Orleans
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