Lynne Spears


Lynne Irene Spears is the mother of Bryan Spears, Britney Spears and Jamie Lynn Spears.

Biography

Early life and family

Lynne Irene Bridges is believed to have been born around 1955 in Magnolia, Mississippi to Lilian Irene Portell, a British woman of English and Maltese descent, and Barney O'Field Bridges, an American G.I. In 1945, her parents met and married in Portell's native London. Spears' maternal great-grandfather, Edward Portell, had immigrated to the United Kingdom from Malta while the country was a colony of the British Empire. Spears has an older brother, Barry "Sonny" Bridges. Their older sister Sandra Bridges Covington died of ovarian cancer.
In July 1976, she married Jamie Spears. They divorced in May 2002 They have three children: son Bryan Spears and daughters Britney Spears and Jamie Lynn Spears.
In 1991, Lynne along with daughters Britney and Jamie Lynn moved to a sublet apartment in New York City, when Britney began attending Professional Performing Arts School. Her husband Jamie and son Bryan stayed in Kentwood. Britney soon began appearing on The Mickey Mouse Club, but it was canceled on its second season, and they returned to Kentwood.

Career

Spears owned and operated a day care in Kentwood, Louisiana and later worked as a schoolteacher. Despite accompanying Britney on tours early in her career, she never worked as her daughter's manager and only briefly worked on Britney's fan club and website.
Spears has co-written two books about her daughter Britney. The first, Heart to Heart, was published in 2000 as a biographical book about Britney. A Mother's Gift was a novel released in 2001 and has been adapted into an ABC Family television film Brave New Girl. She was credited as a writer and executive producer in the film. A 2008 memoir, Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World, followed, detailing the public scrutiny that the Spears family faced after Britney's mental breakdown and Jamie Lynn's teen pregnancy. In 2020, she played the role of a stage mom in her daughter Jamie Lynn and Chantel Jeffries' music video for the song "Follow Me".
As of September 2023, she works as an independent consultant for Rodan + Fields and a substitute teacher in Louisiana.

Personal life

Spears is a devout Christian, and openly discussed this in her memoir. She attended First Baptist Church in Kentwood, Louisiana with her family but she has been identified as a Catholic alongside her youngest daughter Jamie Lynn and two of her granddaughters, Jamie Lynn's daughters.
She has five grandchildren: grandsons Sean Preston Federline and Jayden James Federline from Britney; granddaughters Maddie Briann Aldridge and Ivey Joan Watson from Jamie Lynn; and Sophia Alexandra Spears from Bryan.
In November 2021, Spears requested $650,000 in legal fees from Britney's estate, suggesting that her lawyers had helped in the process of releasing Britney from the conservatorship imposed by the California court system in 2008. Lynne and her lawyers would later drop the case before appearing in court.

Filmography

YearTitleArtistRole
2020"Follow Me"Jamie Lynn Spears and Chantel JeffriesStage mom