In 2007, at the age of 16 and while she was a performer on the Nickelodeon show Zoey 101, Jamie Lynn announced OK! Magazine that she was pregnant. Jamie Lynn gave birth to a daughter Maddie Briann Aldridge the following year. In 2009 the actress and Maddie’s father, Casey Aldridge, ended their engagement.
Jamie Lynn later stayed out of the spotlight for years before making a comeback as a country singer in 2013. She married her current husband Jamie Watson the following year and 2018 they welcomed their first child together and the star’s second daughter, Ivey Joan Watson.
“She spent years escaping into different characters – All That !, Zoey 101 and even playing Britney’s little sister,” the summary of Jamie Lynn’s memoir reads. “Pretending to be other people was easy, but when she decided to begin a music career in Nashville, she realized that she could no longer hide behind the characters she was playing. Soon the real Jamie Lynn began to take center stage – a raw, flawless, and imperfect woman in her own power. “
