Class is in session for the children of this Pacific Coast Academy alum.
Last month, Jamie Lynn Spears watched her daughter Maddie, 16, enter “11th grade somehow, already” and her youngest Ivey, 6, start first grade. And for the actress, supporting her kids is just parenting 101.
So when it was time for Maddie to celebrate homecoming, Jamie Lynn, 33, made it clear she was ready to “hoco like a mofo” and capture all the big moments—including the teen making the high school’s court and heading to the dance in a pink dress.
But it was almost two decades ago that the mom of two was heading to Pepperdine University to film Zoey 101, which premiered on Nickelodeon in January 2005 and went on to become an instant hit.
Jamie Lynn was 13, playing a well-heeled kid sent to an ocean-view boarding school at the newly co-ed “Pacific Coast Academy.” And with that, there were two Spears sisters lighting up Hollywood—albeit one of them not old enough to drive, let alone accompany her big sis to clubs with the likes of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan.
“I love my little sister and I am overprotective with her, and I don’t mind saying that,” Britney Spears told Real Access after Jamie Lynn had made her big-screen debut playing a younger version of the pop star’s character in 2002’s Crossroads and became a featured performer on All That.
“My sister is a handful,” she added. “We are so different. It’s so funny—actually, she would be a lot better in this business than I am. Like her personality, she is Miss Diva. She is so full of herself, it’s so cute.”