Earlier than she took a break from Hollywood, Jamie Lynn Spears was able to make herself a family identify on the massive and small display screen.
Throughout a current interview with Selection, Jamie Lynn revealed the “plans” she had for herself after Zoey 101 ended, which included auditioning for Twilight.
Proper earlier than Season 3 of Zoey 101 ended, Jamie Lynn introduced she was pregnant along with her first youngster. Though hypothesis started that Nickelodeon canceled the present as a consequence of her being pregnant, the collection was already scheduled to finish after its fourth season.
“I feel once I wrapped Zoey there have been all these plans of issues like, ‘Let’s go do films.’ I used to be studying scripts for issues I used to be enthusiastic about.”
“However like lots of younger ladies, I assumed I used to be in love. And there I’m, pregnant at 16. I used to be so involved about bringing one other human being into this world, however I wanted to determine who I used to be.”
Jamie Lynn admitted the press wasn’t notably “good” to her whereas reporting on her being pregnant, so she needed to separate herself from it as shortly as potential.
“So I obtained a home in Mississippi. I put up a gate, put myself on a price range and stated, ‘I’m gonna elevate my child again right here.’ And that’s what I did for some time.”
“However I additionally needed to point out her that I might present for her future and that I might proceed on to be what I needed to be. Bringing her into my life was not one thing that I remorse or held me again.”
And as for these scripts she talked about earlier, one in all them simply occurred to be Twilight. Though she auditioned, Jamie Lynn admitted she did not assume a film about vampires would achieve success.
“I did learn for Twilight,” she stated. “This was earlier than vampires had actually made their mark. Now all of us love to look at tales about vampires, however I actually was like, ‘Vampires? Are you kidding me?'”
“I bear in mind studying it and going, ‘Who’s going to look at these vampires?’ Boy, was I mistaken!”
Nicely, she may’ve missed out on Twilight, however that did not cease Jamie Lynn from returning to the small display screen. She presently stars within the hit Netflix collection Candy Magnolias (Season 3 is out now), and she or he’ll be premiering Zoey 102 on July 27.
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To study extra about Jamie Lynn, you’ll want to take a look at her full Selection interview.