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In 2007, Nickelodeon star Jamie Lynn Spears got pregnant at 16, and her parents pushed her to end the pregnancy. She refused, and they hid her in a cabin with no phone. In the video below, Jamie Lynn, Britney Spears's younger sister, explains why that time still makes her cry. "Thank God I stood up for myself." She broke the news to her mother in a note: "Everything was gonna be OK, mom." "I was just truly in shock," Lynne Spears said. Then, her memoir says, family and managers urged her not to have the baby: "It will kill your career." When she refused, her father pushed for adoption, and the two ended up "slinging words and tossing insults." Until the news broke, she and her mother hid from the paparazzi in that cabin, even on Thanksgiving. "Momma wore her disappointment like her favorite jacket," she recalls. She wanted to move out and raise the baby, but her parents "thought I was being foolish," she writes. So she and her lawyer served her mother with court papers to break free of her parents. In June 2008, 17-year-old Jamie Lynn gave birth to her daughter Maddie. Three months later, Lynne blamed herself for the pregnancy: "As a mother, don't we always blame ourselves?" Did the rich family pressure their pregnant teenage daughter to save her future, or their own reputation?