“It was clear that girl ruled the roost.
Meanwhile, it was like I was a ghost child.
I can remember walking into the room and feeling like no one even saw me.
Britney Spears and Jamie Lynn Spears in 2017.Image Group LA/Disney Channel via Getty Images
Jamie Lynn only saw the TV.”
“She was not exactly grateful for it,” Britney recalls.
“She’d later say, ‘Why’d she get us ahouse?’
like it was some sort of imposition.”
As Jamie Lynn grew into a teenager, Britney felt she became more even more ungrateful.
However, Britney states that she still attempted to be a good older sister to Jamie Lynn.
“‘Stop fighting it,’ she texted back.
‘There’s nothing you might do about it, so stop fighting it.’
Along with the rest of them, she kept acting like I was a threat in some way.
“I felt like she should have taken my side,” Britney says.
“She rushed out salacious stories about me, many of them hurtful and outrageous.
I was really let down.
“She’s spoken about the pain of growing up in my shadow.
It’s not easy.”
