Spears' sister ditches baby daddy
Jamie Lynn Spears is officially a single mom. Well, almost. Rumour is she's hooked up with an older businessman?
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Sources close to Jamie Lynn Spears and Casey Aldridge say the couple have split – and Jamie Lynn has already moved on! The former Nickelodeon star is now in a new relationship with businessman James Watson.
"She's going through a lot of changes," says a Spears family friend. "It has been painful. She's a young mother and struggling in a lot of areas."
Jamie Lynn moved out of the house she shared with Casey and their 19-month-old daughter, Maddie, about six weeks ago and is now living with her mother, Lynne.
Meanwhile Casey has chosen to do long-term construction work in another state, instead of staying in their former home alone.
The teenagers had planned to marry after Jamie Lynn, then 16, became pregnant, gave birth to their daughter and set up house together.
After a wreck last April that landed Casey in the ICU after he crashed his truck, a family source said that Casey was "thinking a little more seriously about things." Still, a wedding never materialized.
"She did a lot of growing up but he didn't," says a source. "I think she put up with more than she cared to put up with. She just got enough of it and was tired of the situation."
In a 2008 interview, Lynne Spears said she was proud of her daughter but was sad at all the scrutiny she endured. "Nobody wants their children to have these kinds of hardships or bumps," Lynne said. "Who would want that?"
Jamie Lynn has recently begun dating 28-year-old James Watson who owns a multimedia company in Los Angeles, according to a Spears family friend, who says, "he seems to be a nice guy."
Neither Jamie Lynn nor Casey have commented on the status of the relationship.
We hope she doesn't fall pregnant until she's at least settled into this relationship. Do you think single mothers have a harder time finding love?