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Jamie Lynn Spears sits down with her daughter, Maddie, to look back at their life in photos — from growing up in the spotlight to finding her own path in 'Zoey 101,' and now raising her daughters, Maddie and Ivey.
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00:00That was so chubby.
00:01I mean, it was just like Michelin man had nothing on her.
00:04And I thought she was the prettiest thing in the whole world.
00:07And she was.
00:08My mom would invite anybody in for sandwiches.
00:10She was just like, y'all, come on in.
00:12Have sweet tea.
00:13This is Brittany's room.
00:14I love going on set.
00:16And it's really cool to watch her do what she loves.
00:18That was a day that I thought I'd lost my daughter.
00:21And God gave her back to me.
00:23And that's just the truth of the matter.
00:24I don't get to ask for anything else in life because I got the biggest blessing.
00:28Oh, look at my mom.
00:29Isn't she beautiful?
00:30She's so pretty.
00:31Everything we did, I was kind of like Ivy in that sense.
00:34I just thought like, well, everything we're doing is because of me.
00:37This was just a typical like childhood for me.
00:39Like I got to be around all the kids, all the girls, all the family and spoiled riding.
00:45I mean, just got to do all the fun things.
00:46I was just like the tag along, kind of like Ivy is with you and your friends.
00:49Yeah.
00:50And my mom made everything really fun.
00:51Look how cute she is.
00:52You have to understand, I grew up and like we were in the Mickey Mouse Club.
00:55Like my life was always basically we all sang, we all danced.
00:58It was kind of one of those like family of entertainers.
01:00So it was never bizarre to me that we were singing and dancing and that was just something
01:05we did.
01:05And then one time they came and did a photo shoot at my school and we all got to get
01:09out
01:09of class and go be part of the photo shoot.
01:11And I was like, yeah, something's happening here.
01:14And I really like it.
01:15I do remember thinking that was really cool, but that's when I noticed.
01:19And then like my mom, like people would come drive by our house.
01:21My mom would invite anybody in for sandwiches.
01:23And I remember one time it was a little scary and I was like, yeah, things have changed.
01:27And you know, you don't invite every stranger into your house and feed them.
01:30She was just like, oh, that's so great.
01:32Y'all, y'all come on in.
01:33And sweet tea.
01:34This is Brittany's room.
01:36This is Jamie Lynn.
01:36Jamie Lynn doesn't have a room, but she shares a little.
01:38It's just like, mom, enough.
01:39They know exactly where to come get us.
01:43Crossroads was a lot of fun.
01:45We're digging up a time capsule here.
01:47Let's be best friends forever.
01:49We will.
01:50I don't think I've ever actually watched the movie.
01:52I don't think you've ever seen the movie.
01:53It's a great movie.
01:54You really should watch it.
01:55Well, my friends will watch it.
01:56I don't know.
01:57It's kind of weird.
01:58Like I never watch anything really that anybody's doing.
02:01You were in the Zoe movie.
02:02Did you watch it?
02:02I know.
02:03And I like hate watching myself.
02:05It was a really cool experience watching myself and like, I don't know.
02:09I don't know.
02:09This was like really fun because it was like obviously a movie and stuff.
02:12And I think my friend Crystal, there was us three and there was my friend Crystal actually
02:16played the other person.
02:17I remember always just never thinking of anything other than I want to act.
02:22I want to, I really wanted to act so much like there was church plays and different things
02:25like that, that, you know, anything they would let me be in, I would be in.
02:29And I mean, commercials, every, everything I would try out for it.
02:33It did not matter.
02:33I was like, mom, please, please, please just let me go try out for it.
02:36And then finally I got a Clorox commercial and I was like, well, I've made it.
02:40Like, this is the big dime.
02:42That kind of led to me to be on all that and then going to Zoe and those other moments.
02:46But I would think I was kind of a brat on Crossroads because like they made me wear
02:50like these older clothes and I would be like, I look so stupid.
02:53I kept mom's like, you're going back in time.
02:55It's a part of the character.
02:56That was like the first harsh lesson I had on me.
02:58Like you're playing a character.
02:59You're not even speaking.
03:00You're just digging up a box.
03:01So that was one of those learning moments.
03:04Thank God I learned there.
03:06You got to meet a lot of these people when we did the reboot.
03:09This was, I can remember this day very much in teen form.
03:14I remember I hated everything.
03:15And I was like, I don't want to take one more photo.
03:17You know, teenagers were always the worst version of ourselves in our eyes.
03:20And now I'm like, look how cute we were.
03:22We were all really cute.
03:24I love everyone on this cast.
03:25Everyone's so sweet.
03:26And I just look back on this time as like, just like a fun time that I got to do
03:30something
03:31this special that people still love.
03:32I'm a new student here.
03:33Cool.
03:34Yeah, I think it's great that PCA is finally letting in girls.
03:38And you probably did too, being a girl and all.
03:41No offense.
03:42It's okay.
03:43I'm used to it.
03:44Been a girl my whole life.
03:45Whenever I was on All That, they had, I guess, kind of like Amanda Bynes had done at the
03:50time and somebody I really looked up to, like they kind of decided we would love to create
03:54a show with you.
03:55They didn't really have some idea hard locked in.
03:57And so that allowed me some input, which was at that time, I was very much a tomboy.
04:02I was going through a big tomboy stage and I wanted her to play sports.
04:06I didn't want it to be like the girls and the boys.
04:08I really wanted her to have this strong sense of self.
04:11And one of the first episodes is that it's an all boys school and we come in and not only
04:15do we come in, but we have our own basketball team and kind of about girls like creating
04:19their own space in the world.
04:20And even at that age was important to me.
04:22And they let me do that, which is wow.
04:24What were they thinking?
04:25Are you seriously going to put a girl on our team?
04:27Hey, you catch on quick for a guy.
04:32Bye, teammate.
04:33I've tried to watch it.
04:35The show is good, but I've just never, I get weird.
04:39It's really cool going on set, watching her do everything, but watching it on TV, I kind
04:43of just would rather not.
04:46But Ivy loves watching it and she has it on in the house all the time.
04:50This is a little weird.
04:52And I do find it, when my little girl's watching it and I'm like, it would be very strange if
04:56you were to come into my home and you see that like my children are watching my show.
05:00Like, don't you think that's all?
05:01I'm like, can we not do this?
05:02Can we not watch the show?
05:03And it was also confusing for her because she thought like we'd sit down, I'd go have lunch
05:07with her and her friends and Ivy would be like, mom, tell me about the time that you had the
05:10bowling ball dropped.
05:11And I'm like, what are you doing?
05:11I'm like, she's making this up.
05:13It was on Zoe.
05:14So she felt like that was my real life childhood.
05:17So she's like wanting me to tell them all these stories.
05:18I'm like, I don't, and I didn't even remember half of them.
05:21So it's probably better you didn't like watch it because it did.
05:24Ivy probably thinks that my life is very different than what it actually is.
05:29Look at you, chubby little.
05:30I was so chubby.
05:31Oh my goodness.
05:32Look at my wrist.
05:33She had what we like to call the screw on wrist.
05:35I mean, I'm telling you, the doctors were like, she is very large.
05:39She was very large.
05:40Like she was just, I mean, it was just like Michelin man had nothing on her.
05:44And I thought she was the prettiest thing in the whole world.
05:47And she was, and she was, but she was just my chubby little girl.
05:50Whenever I became pregnant, that was the first time that I was like, oh my gosh, this is a
05:55real life decision.
05:56This isn't just some like work decision I'm making.
05:58And I was already scared.
06:00And I knew how embarrassed and like unideal this was for everyone involved, including my
06:05family.
06:05So to have that decision be so scrutinized, which I wasn't telling anybody what they should
06:11or shouldn't do with their body.
06:12I was just saying, this is what I have to do for me.
06:13This is what I want to do.
06:15And so I made a choice and I was, you know, called the biggest, you know, the biggest letdown
06:23in the world.
06:24And it was on, I mean, it was on me every big news station, everywhere I went.
06:27And I was like, okay, thanks guys.
06:28I know.
06:29Can you not?
06:30And that would never fly today.
06:31Like people would be absolutely, you know, canceled for saying those things.
06:36But at the time it just is, that was the time we were living in.
06:39And then while I was pregnant, I just came in, as you can tell, I moved to the middle
06:42of nowhere, but actually Mississippi, even in the further middle of nowhere, because I
06:45didn't want to be around the paparazzi and that stuff.
06:47And that didn't stop.
06:48They still, there was at least like 15 to 20 paparazzi followed me everywhere I went
06:52in the middle of nowhere.
06:54And I'll be honest with you, it just kind of like made it more clear, like what I wanted
06:58to do and an innocent child being brought into the world, whether she knows it or not,
07:02we should have some care about like what we're saying about the future of other people's,
07:07you know, children.
07:08And to me, that was important that I wanted her to have a mom she was proud of.
07:12I wanted to make sure that it wasn't her fault that she got, you know, a mom who was
07:1716 and pregnant.
07:18So I wanted to make sure I did everything right.
07:20And so I just tried to keep making the right decision, the right decision, because hopefully
07:23they would make up for all these other ones that people said that weren't true, but those
07:28are going to live on forever.
07:29I mean, today, I mean, TikTok comments really, and we're able to laugh at them, but you know,
07:35think if those things were true, like it probably would really hurt her, you know?
07:39So her TikToks.
07:40My TikTok is all like, you're the reasons I want to once over, I can't believe you made
07:45my show end.
07:46And I'm like, guys, like Evelyn.
07:48Honestly, she laughs at us.
07:49Some of the comments are so funny.
07:52As you could tell, like she was my world.
07:54This is back before we took everything on iPhones.
07:55Like we'd have to get pictures done every year, you know, for Christmas, that was our
07:58thing.
07:59And it was just really me and her.
08:02I learned a lot about just being okay with being by myself.
08:05And really, she was just, she made everything easy because like I knew what I was doing it
08:09for, I guess you could say.
08:11And I'm sure I did a lot of dumb things as like being a young mom that thank God we
08:15didn't
08:15have as much social media as we do now.
08:17But it was one of those times where I just feel like I grew up, like I had to grow
08:21up
08:21and maybe I never would have if I didn't have her, you know, kind of the one being like,
08:25look, you, this little girl needs you.
08:27Like, you better figure this out.
08:28Do you remember anything about these girls?
08:29No, I do not remember that at all.
08:31It's probably for the better.
08:32But I love that picture.
08:33I think it's so cute.
08:34I remember it's this little Ralph Lauren dress.
08:36It was like a little vintage one.
08:37I thought it was so cute.
08:38And I was like, we have to take all the pictures.
08:39Growing up, I got to experience so many cool things.
08:43And like, I realized it was a bunch of opportunities that maybe other people wouldn't get.
08:49And to me, it always just seemed normal.
08:51She did a really good job of like giving me like a normal childhood.
08:55I never felt different or anything.
08:57Well, she had like, that was a point.
09:00I feel like I overdid it in some ways because I wanted her to have such a normal childhood.
09:03Sometimes I probably over extended that.
09:06But she did think like all pop stars were her aunt.
09:09So that was...
09:10I did think that.
09:11She was like, Aunt Gaga, Aunt Ruby.
09:13I was like, no, no, no, no.
09:14It's not.
09:15It's not how it works.
09:16I remember one time like passing her in the hallway.
09:19And I was kind of like, why didn't she talk to me?
09:21Like, that's my aunt.
09:26Yeah.
09:27You know, because you go to these different events and award shows.
09:29And like, we're just like in the back there, like in our t-shirt and cut off.
09:31And I'm sure like, she's like offended that every pop star is not like,
09:34stop by to see their knees.
09:36For goodness sakes.
09:36I'm like, you don't know those people.
09:38They don't know you.
09:39It was like kind of those cute moments that happened.
09:41But too, she was born with, you know, everyone knowing who her family is.
09:45As to where I grew up, where I do remember a transition.
09:47And she kind of just was born into it.
09:49So there wasn't anything odd about it.
09:50Because it's pretty much all she's ever known.
09:53This was when we moved to Children's Hospital.
09:55So at first we were in like a level one trauma.
09:57They only have a couple of those in Louisiana.
09:59So like that was very serious.
10:00But the tubes had come out here and stuff.
10:02And so she was breathing on her own.
10:04But she was, she was a little bit out of her mind.
10:07And so this was the time where I was like, hey, this is my baby girl now.
10:11Like I didn't care.
10:12She didn't recognize me at first.
10:14And then she recognized other people.
10:15And I was like, I remember I went in the bathroom and cried.
10:17I was like, okay.
10:18Like, it's fine.
10:19It's fine.
10:19I thought that mom was Carrie Underwood.
10:21Yeah, she did.
10:22She asked me like, why is Carrie Underwood here?
10:25Like was one of her questions.
10:26I was like, but she also was like, why is it raining apples outside?
10:29So we were a little like, okay.
10:30You know, that was a day that I thought I'd lost my daughter.
10:34And then God gave her back to me.
10:36And that's just the truth of the matter.
10:37When we heard that they got a pulse, that was the most sweetest words I'd ever heard.
10:42And so you think back to that moment and how tragic that was, how you go from the worst
10:47thing you could ever feel as a person to the best thing you could ever feel as a person.
10:51Everything kind of shifts in perspective.
10:53And then on top of it, not only I didn't care how God gave her to me.
10:57I just was so happy to have her.
10:59But how in the world did he give her back?
11:01And then he gave her back in a way that like she's succeeding.
11:03She's beautiful.
11:04She's kind.
11:05She's smart.
11:05I feel like I don't get to ask for anything else in life because I got the biggest blessing.
11:09And I just think it puts it into perspective, like just the baseline of having a healthy
11:13child is really the biggest gift.
11:15And everything on top of that is like, wow, what what in the world?
11:19How did I get so lucky?
11:20And I think that's where it shifts.
11:22You know, you start to think about what really matters.
11:24And obviously for her, she's strong.
11:26She's a fighter.
11:28And I think that she just needs to remember, like out against all odds, this baby girl fault
11:32to be here and she's here.
11:34I don't remember anything from the accident.
11:37But, you know, seeing like everything I put my family through and everything was like,
11:42I felt guilty.
11:43I was like, I'm sorry.
11:44She would feel guilty.
11:45Like, how could you feel guilty?
11:47Yeah, it definitely like I feel like for everybody, like our faith, like we are a lot stronger
11:53in our faith and everything.
11:54It did.
11:56And in the end, I think it has such a negative experience affected us positively.
12:02Yeah, it did.
12:03I did.
12:03I definitely like grew in my faith.
12:05And also, too, whenever she was in a coma and stuff and she was in the hospital, I would
12:10like she had been begging me for a little sibling.
12:13Yeah.
12:13And so I was like, I mean, you're bargaining with God.
12:16You're like, whatever.
12:17Take my arm.
12:18Take my leg.
12:18I don't care.
12:19Just give me my baby back.
12:20I was like, I'll have a baby.
12:22I'll have whatever you want.
12:22And so when she came out of her coma, like a few days later, she's like, you're going
12:26to give me that baby?
12:27And I was like, oh, he's already calling in.
12:29He's already calling it in.
12:31And so about three or four months later, I got pregnant with Ivy.
12:35So we always say she just went up to heaven to go pick out her little sister.
12:39She was so little.
12:41And look, she came out with this dark brown hair.
12:43Full head of hair.
12:43Full head of hair, dark hair.
12:45My mom was so proud, she's like, I finally got my grandbaby with the black hair like mine.
12:50And then she went immediately to blonde, curly hair.
12:53This was like our first like cute little family photo after I had my little Ivy look
12:58at her.
12:59Look at you.
13:00I always say like, forget my husband.
13:02I couldn't have done it without her.
13:03Like she's the sweetest big sister, the best example.
13:05So helpful.
13:06I don't have to tell Maddie to do the right thing.
13:09And so that just really helps.
13:10Like Ivy needs that example in her life.
13:12Like at her, one of her like kindergarten, maybe it wasn't kindergarten, it was Montessori
13:16graduation and everyone like comes across the big screen up top.
13:19You know, you don't know what your kid's going to say.
13:21And everybody is like, you know, what do you want to be when you grow up?
13:24And all the kids are like, police officer, fireman.
13:26And it comes across to Ivy's and it's movie star.
13:29I was like, oh, cause like people probably think I asked her to do that or something,
13:33but no, that's what she says she wants to do.
13:34But we'll see.
13:36Let her enjoy it.
13:37She told me she wanted to be a rapper.
13:39What?
13:40Yeah.
13:41A rapper?
13:41She told me that the other day.
13:43And I was like.
13:44Okay, guys, this is new.
13:46This is a developing story.
13:49This is my sweet Magnolias family.
13:51They're the best family.
13:52They really are.
13:53Like I love every single person in this picture.
13:55And my little girl, Bex, on the show, well, she's actually a twin.
13:58So I get to have, I'm like, I have my own real life Mary-Kate and Ashley and they're precious.
14:03I love going on set.
14:04It's such like, it's almost like a big family.
14:07Like everyone's so sweet.
14:09And it's really cool to watch her do what she loves.
14:12People say that we're like a family on set.
14:14No, like we really are.
14:15They really are.
14:16Thanks to all four of you for helping me become the woman I dreamed of being when I first arrived
14:21in Serenity.
14:22Sweet Magnolias has been the biggest blessing in my life.
14:24It was a job that I got.
14:25I was actually in Netflix meeting about something different.
14:27I sat down and one of the producers was like, would you possibly want to read for the show?
14:31It's not the main character.
14:31I was like, yeah, sure.
14:32Like I love it.
14:33I love any reason to get back to acting.
14:36And I read for Noreen.
14:38It was a perfect.
14:39It was supposed to be a one season character.
14:41And the show was hugely successful.
14:44I guess during the COVID, it was kind of during that time.
14:46And I got to really get back into doing what I loved.
14:50But with the best group of people, the best environment for families, everyone has kids.
14:56There's like so many of us.
14:57So like the shooting schedule, we might shoot for four or five months.
14:59But I get to go to Atlanta maybe for two days and I can come back home for three days.
15:03The shooting schedule is very different.
15:04So I'm able to be really present with my kids, but also doing a job that I love and provides
15:10for my family.
15:11It's truly the coolest thing to be a part of.
15:13And like Joe and everyone has just become like some of my closest friends.
15:16So it's like the best job in the world.
15:18And I just love that people love it because they allow me to do this job, which is kind
15:23of unbelievable.
15:25The funny thing about this photo, so she's holding her diploma here, but I did not take
15:29a photo singularly of like her with her diploma.
15:31Didn't they do it at school?
15:33Yes, they did.
15:34So that was the one thing I kept trying to like use AI to like put her diploma there.
15:38But this is a real photo of us actually.
15:40Very proud moment.
15:41You can't really see the display that I worked on very hard back there.
15:44Did that for about two or three days, me and other moms.
15:47But yeah, it was a really special moment.
15:48I was so proud.
15:49It's like you're watching a movie when you're watching your kid graduate.
15:52Because I'm like, you see all these things in a movie and like this is what's supposed
15:55to happen, but then when it's really you, it's almost like you're in like some type of animation
15:59of your own life.
16:00Because you're like, my kid's really doing the thing like they're supposed to do.
16:03And you're so proud.
16:04But it's a surreal moment.
16:05I mean, I don't know.
16:06For you, you're just like ready to go hang out with your friends.
16:08It definitely like hasn't hit me that I graduated.
16:11I don't think it'll hit me until I go to college.
16:13But I do agree.
16:15It feels kind of surreal.
16:16Senior year, there's a lot of these little moments that you don't think are important,
16:20but they're big moments.
16:21And so I guess maybe selfishly because I didn't have a normal senior year and I never really
16:25had a normal school year's experience.
16:28I wanted to just be there and be present.
16:30And she got voted on homecoming court.
16:31And I got to like do all these very stereotypical like senior mom, daughter things that some
16:36people might laugh at.
16:37But it was so special to me.
16:38I got to really have those moments with her.
16:41And it was just kind of like watching a movie of my life.
16:43But I'm so glad I took the time off to kind of just really be there, be present for a
16:46senior year.
16:47And it made me proud to be like, my daughter's doing all these things.
16:50And I get to kind of have like that bragging right of being like, I get to be a part
16:53of
16:54it.
16:54And maybe there was like the little girl in me being like, I didn't get to do any of this.
16:57This is really, really cool.
17:03It is a really fun chapter for us, but it's also kind of, I keep saying bittersweet because
17:09you're so proud of her and everything she's done.
17:11She's accomplished.
17:12I mean, she's going to go play ball in college and academically she's done very well.
17:16But I'm also just kind of like not having her baby at home every day because she's always
17:20been my baby.
17:21So I'm just, I'm excited, but I'm just like, like also I just cry in the car.
17:25That's pretty much it.
17:27Definitely going to be an adjustment being away from home, but I'm very excited to play softball
17:32and be on my own as well.
17:34Never forget like family is most important.
17:36Like we're always going to be here and no matter what happens, you know, we'll always
17:41have each other's back.
17:42I don't want you to ever forget that you are quite literally so special.
17:46God has you here for a reason.
17:48And you are the strongest person I know.
17:50There is not one thing you should be afraid of on this earth because you made me strong
17:54because you're so strong.
17:55So don't forget that.
17:57Anybody comes for you, just look at them and be like, no, no, no.
17:59My mom said I was strong.
18:00So bye.
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