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Jamie Lynn 'Glorifying' Teen Pregnancy

Posted Jul 17, 08 12:23 PM CDT in Arts & Living,  Opinion,  Gossip 

(Newser) – Jamie Lynn Spears’ gushing OK! magazine spread, with its poetic waxings about motherhood, sends the exact wrong message—telling teens it's “perfect” to have a baby, critics say. “There's no way I would describe caring for a new baby as “fun.” “Fulfilling,” maybe, but it's possible Jamie Lynn lacks the vocabulary to explain how she's feeling exactly,” writes the French Infos Jeunes.

"The media doesn't show the downside to teenagers getting pregnant," adds an adolescent doc in Newsweek. "All they're seeing is the upside ... This concept of having a baby might feel good emotionally when you look at the magazines, but it's not reality."

Sources Infos Jeunes, Newsweek

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The OK! magazine cover where Jamie Lynn Spears debuts daughter Maddie Briann.   (AP Photo)
A file photo of Jamie Lynn Spears around the time she became pregnant.   (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)
The infamous cover of OK! Magazine where 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears announces she is pregnant.   (AP Photo)
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