Mama Lynne Spears is opening up to Newsweek magazine about the unfair treatment that her family received, and her daughter Jamie Lynn Spears in particular, after news came out that JL got pregs at 16 as opposed to the treatment that the Palin family received when news broke about Bristol Palin’s teenage pregnancy. Lynne calls foul that the Palins were “celebrated” by being forthcoming with their news (well, mebbe not totally forthcoming at the start … they were forced to admit the pregnancy after political blogs started putting the pieces of the story together) while Spears was “crucified” for her admission. Here is a portion of Mama Lynne‘s interview with Newsweek magazine:

Lynne Spears says the public had a “totally different reaction” to the teen pregnancies of her daughter Jamie Lynn and Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol. “It’s as if [Sarah Palin] became celebrated,” Lynne told Newsweek. “I mean, the mother, Palin, was celebrated for this. Every woman in the world has applauded her strength and her convictions and poor little old Jamie Lynn, you saw how she was crucified – everybody did, firsthand,” Lynne said. “I just feel like it’s been a very hypocritical situation.” In December, Jamie Lynn, the star of Nickelodeon’s Zoey 101 was 16 when she announced her pregnancy. She gave birth to daughter Maddie in June at the age of 17. In August, Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, revealed that her 17-year-old daughter is expecting and engaged. “Do I promote teen sex? Of course not,” Lynne told Newsweek. “Do I promote teen pregnancy? Needless to say, of course not. But when it happens, you deal with it and you do the best you can do. Jamie Lynn has done beautifully with what she’s done,” Lynne said. “Could every other teenager do what Jamie Lynn has done?” asked Lynne. “No indeed.” Lynne also rebutted criticism that Jamie Lynn glamorized teen pregnancy. “We don’t want this said, ’cause this would be glamorizing, but I will tell you a secret: her baby does sleep all night,” Lynne explained. “What do you think about those apples? Maddie is the best baby I have ever seen,” Lynne added. “She is like a little angel. She’s so contented. She laughs and she coos and ahead of herself with her stages. But of course we can’t tell that because then we would just glamorize it more.” Lynne, the author of a tell-all memoir titled Through the Storm, told Newsweek that she “really can’t give advice” to the Palin family. “Everybody’s situation is different,” she said. “I would never tell anybody else what to do with their child. I would never attempt to make them think I knew more about their child. Even if they were to ask, I would tell them dig deep, what do you think?”

You know, I noticed this same sort of thing myself … while I don’t consider both situations absolutely identical, I can absolutely sympathize with Lynne‘s contention that her family was treated more unfairly. I, personally, was very surprised at how applauded the Palin family was by their own conservative political party. It has been my estimation that social conservatives are the ones to start throwing stones first whenever a public figure suffers a very public human fault like this … and yet the Palins were celebrated for their “strength”. The Spears family, tho, were vilified and horribly criticized in comparison. I see her point and I think she has a valid one. Do y’all think that there was a disparity in fair treatment between the similar family situations? If so, is it justified?

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A story starting making the rounds yesterday that Jamie Lynn Spears sent a gift of support to Bristol Palin, the 5-months pregs daughter of Gov. Sarah Palin (who is currently running for Vice President of the US) in order show some semblance of solidarity between the unwed, pregs teens:

Jamie Lynn Spears wants Bristol Palin to know she’s not alone in the unwed teen mom spotlight – so she’s sent a care package of fancy embroidered burp cloths to the 17-year-old pregnant daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. “Dear Bristol: Hang in there!!!!! XXOO,” the supportive card from the “Zoey 101″ star read, underscoring the challenges she too has faced. The younger sister to Britney Spears, Jamie Lynn, 17, gave birth to Maddie Briann Aldridge in June and is engaged to hometown hunk Casey Aldridge, just as Bristol Palin is set to wed her babydaddy Levi Johnston. “She wanted it in pink. I’m assuming the two have spoken, and she knows it’s a girl,” a spokesman for Petit Tresor, the West Hollywood shop that took the order told the Daily News. “We’re sending it to the (Alaska) state capital,” the Tresor rep said. The spokesman said Jamie Lynn’s mom Lynne Spears actually made the call for Jamie Lynn and used a Spears credit card. Packaged in a mini pink suitcase, the $60 set of five coordinating burp cloths from Plain Mary are embroidered with “Babe,” “Loved,” “Yummy,” “Fresh,” and a skull & bones image.

It turns out that the story is absolutely untrue and totally fabricated, Mama Lynne Spears denies that JL never sent any sort of gift to Bristol Palin:

Lynne Spears is denying a widespread Internet report that her 17-year-old daughter Jamie Lynn — who gave birth in June — has sent gifts to pregnant 17-year-old Bristol Palin. Reports surfaced this week that Jamie-Lynn mailed the daughter of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin $60 pink burp cloths from L.A. baby boutique Petit Tresor. A store rep even told ABC News that Spears included a card with the package: “Dear Bristol, Hang in there! XXOO, Jamie Lynn Spears.” But a Spears rep tells E! News: “I just got off the phone with Lynne. I can tell you that she hasn’t sent her any gifts, but that she does support Sarah and, of course, can empathize with their situation.”

I don’t know what is sadder, the fact that a story like this was completely made up to presumably win publicity for Petit Tresor or that the story could’ve actually had been true. LOL.

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