Lynne Spears forthcoming parenting book will still be published, despite the backlash of her teenage daughter Jamie-Lynn’s pregnancy. No surprise really!
Lynne Spears and daughter Jamie-Lynn, 16, confirmed she is 12-weeks pregnant with student Casey Aldridge’s baby in an interview with OK! magazine on Tuesday Dec 19th, 07. Lynne Spears made all the arrangements with OK! magazine beforehand to break the bombshell news demonstrating her ‘management skills’.
The news was first reported to have thrown doubt on whether Lynne’s second book Pop Culture Mom: A Real Story of Fame in a Tabloid World, which follows her adventures raising two famous daughters, would ever be released. The spin doctoring began with Lindsey Nobles, a rep for publisher Thomas Nelson saying:
“It is her memoir, not a parenting book,”.
Christian publisher Thomas Nelson has confirmed the book will still come out:
“Lynne’s memoir will provide a window into the real-life world of fame and worldly success, including the toll it extracts from some who aspire to it. “It will provide a much-needed corrective to a world obsessed with the wrong priorities. “We believe in redemption. Therefore, we are standing with Lynne and her family during this difficult time. Though the book has been delayed, we believe God is at work.”
When you think about it with the Spears family not missing a beat to sell the breaking pregnancy story off to OK! magazine, Lynne is certainly not going to waste the opportunity to get her book out there, while the ‘iron is hot’.
Meanwhile as Execs at Nickelodeon are grappling with what to do, teen magazines struggle with how to react to Jamie-Lynn’s pregnancy:
CosmoGIRL! Editor-in-Chief Susan Schulz, told Us weekly magazine: “I was considering her for an upcoming cover, but with this news, I’d have to rethink that.”
Though Schulz praised 16-year-old Spears for “taking responsibility,” Schulz added: “I don’t feel like I can put her on the cover right now because, as you can imagine, girls are disappointed in Jamie Lynn.”
Seventeen magazine’s Editor-in-Chief, Ann Shoket, added: “we would certainly consider putting Jamie Lynn on the cover, but only after she overcomes this moment and goes on “to have a career our readers can look up to.”
“Getting pregnant at 16 is not something we’re encouraging,” Shoket says.
Schulz continued that she doesn’t expect teen girls to follow in Britney Spears’ little sister’s footsteps.
“Girls aren’t going to go out and get pregnant because Jamie Lynn did, quite the opposite,” the Shoket says. She said they’re probably thinking, “‘I’m so glad that’s not me.’”
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