Los Angeles - One daughter gave birth recently at the age of 17. The other suffered a nervous breakdown and a series of personal and professional public debacles. But Lynne Spears, the mother of pop singer Britney Spears and teen actress Jamie Lynne Spears said Wednesday that she had no regrets about encouraging her daughters to become child stars.
"I think you have to let them follow their dreams," Spears said in a new interview with People magazine ahead of the publication of her memoir Through the Storm: A real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World. "I think it would be worse in the end if you didn't."
Spears admitted that she made mistakes like "every mother," including letting "other people talk me out of things that I felt a gut instinct about."
The book is to be published at the end of September, but in excerpts released Wednesday she rejected criticism that she was a pushy stage mother eager to bask in the spotlight of her celebrity daughters.
"I simply did not have the huge ambitions for (Britney) that I have been accused of," she wrote. "Much has been written about how we were counting on our daughter to rescue us from financial ruin. Ha!"
