Republican, red state family values on display: 16-year-old Bushsupporter knocked up, doesn't know

NEW YORK (AP) -- Another Spears baby is reportedly on the way -- and

it's not Britney's.

Jamie Lynn Spears, shown in September, stars in the popular

Nickelodeon series "Zoey 101."

Jamie Lynn Spears, the 16-year-old "Zoey 101" star and sister of

Britney, told OK! magazine that she's pregnant and that the father is

her boyfriend, Casey Aldridge.

"It was a shock for both of us, so unexpected," she said. "I was in

complete and total shock and so was he."

Spears is 12 weeks along and initially kept the news to herself when

she learned of the pregnancy from an at-home test and subsequent

doctor visit, she told the celebrity magazine, which hits stands in

New York on Wednesday and the rest of the country by Friday.

What message does she want to send to other teens about premarital

sex? "I definitely don't think it's something you should do; it's

better to wait," she told the magazine. "But I can't be judgmental

because it's a position I put myself in."

After she found out from a doctor that she was pregnant, she said, "I

took two weeks to myself where I didn't tell anybody."

"Only one of my friends knew because I needed to work out what I would

do for myself before I let anyone's opinion affect my decision. Then I

told my parents and my friends. I was scared, but I had to do what was

right for me," she said.

Spears broke the news to her mother, Lynne, just before Thanksgiving,

the magazine reported.

"She was very upset because it wasn't what she expected at all,"

Spears said. "A week after, she had time to cope with it and became

very supportive."

Lynne Spears, already grandmother to Britney's young sons, told the

magazine: "I didn't believe it because Jamie Lynn's always been so

conscientious. She's never late for her curfew. I was in shock. I

mean, this is my 16-year-old baby."

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She said her actress daughter, the telegenic heroine of her popular

Nickelodeon series, has known Aldridge for years and began dating him

in high school.

But in a recent interview with The Associated Press, Spears said she

had no steady boyfriend. "I kind of just keep my options open," she

said. "I have a bunch of friends that I always hang out with, a bunch

of guy friends." She declined to talk about her older sister.

Spears spoke to the AP shortly before Thanksgiving, the day she told

OK! she informed her mother about the pregnancy.

Jamie Lynn plans to raise the baby in her home state of Louisiana --

"so it can have a normal family life."

Nickelodeon released a statement: "We respect Jamie Lynn's decision to

take responsibility in this sensitive and personal situation. We know

this is a very difficult time for her and her family, and our primary

concern right now is for Jamie Lynn's well being."

A publicist for the network did not immediately respond to phone and e-

mail requests for additional comment.

"Zoey 101" is scheduled to conclude its third season January 4 with a

cliffhanger episode in which Spears' character must decide whether to

leave her fictional Pacific Coast Academy boarding school in

California to join her parents in London.

The show is scheduled to resume in February, and its producer, Dan

Schneider, has said filming on the fourth season has already been

completed.

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The Spears family home is in a trailer park in southwest Louisiana and

they are outspoken supporters of George Bush.