Jamie Lynn Spears has adjusted to life down under on I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! sparking close bonds with her campmates while away from her husband and two daughters.
The younger sister of Britney Spears, 32 shot to fame as a child actor on the Nickelodeon teen sitcom Zoey 101 when she played the titled role. Jamie Lynn went on to star in the 2023 follow-on movie Zoey 102 and Netflix's drama series Sweet Magnolias as Noreen Fitzgibbons. But away from TV, Jamie Lynn suffered heartache after splitting with her ex-fiancé before finding her doting husband who holds the same name.
Let's take a closer look at the star's love life as she continues to tackle jungle life…
Teen pregnancy
In late 2007, when she was still starring in Nickelodeon's Zoey 101, Jamie Lynn announced that she was pregnant at the age of 16. She left the show for motherhood and the series ended, with the actress claiming the show had run its course months before she found out she was expecting.
The father of her first child is Casey Aldridge who was Jamie Lynn's boyfriend at the time. According to the New York Post, they met at church when she was 13 years old and had been dating for two years before she got pregnant.
After sharing the news of their pregnancy, Jamie Lynn and Casey got engaged in March 2008 and moved into a house in Liberty, a town in Mississippi, to raise their first child. In June 2008, they welcomed their daughter Maddie Briann Aldridge.
Split from fiancé
But it wasn't long until their relationship hit the rocks and they called off their engagement in 2009. In the few months that followed it wasn't clear if the couple were trying to work out their difference but in November 2010 split for good.
They continued to co-parent Maddie and in 2013 Casey married April Watson. The following year they welcomed a daughter called Skylar Brooke.
According to reports, rifts in their relationship began to show when Casey started getting in trouble with the law.
Casey has stayed out of the spotlight with a private Instagram account, with no real information to know what he has been up to. Despite his close connection to the Spears family, he remained quiet during Britney Spears's conservatorship trial.
Doting husband
In 2010, Jamie Lynn met her husband, Jamie Watson, 41, after they were introduced by a mutual friend. Jamie hails from Louisiana, US and is the owner of Advanced Media Partners, a communications service in the area.
The couple got engaged in 2013 and tied the knot the following year – in March this year, they celebrated their ninth wedding anniversary. During a TLC special, Jamie Lynn Spears: When the Lights Go Out in 2016, her husband described himself as a "normal guy with a normal job."
He also admitted to not knowing who the Zoey 101 star was before they first met. The couple have one daughter together, Ivey Joan Watson, who was born in April 2018.
Celebrating Ivey's third birthday back in 2021, the doting mum took to Instagram to pay tribute. She said: "Ivey has brought us so much joy in these past 3 years, it was only fair that we had a celebration just for IVEY, with all of the things that fill her little spirit up with the same joy and love she shares with everyone around her."
The 41 year old is also a stepfather to Jamie Lynn's eldest daughter, Maddie.
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