No regrets says Britney's mum
Updated on 11 September 2008
Lynne Spears has said every mother makes mistakes but she has no regrets about letting her daughters Britney and Jamie Lynn pursue their dreams of stardom.
"I think you have to let them follow their dreams. I think it would be worse in the end if you didn't," Mrs Spears, 53, has said ahead of the release of her much-anticipated memoir.
As Britney rose to stardom, Mrs Spears said she felt she was losing control over both her daughter and how she was portrayed.
"I let other people talk me out of things that I felt a gut instinct about," she said.
The memoir "Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World," is published by Thomas Nelson, a Christian publisher of bibles and inspirational books.
It chronicles the Spears family during the phenomenal rise of Britney in the late 1990s and her highly publicised meltdown.
Originally planned for a May release, the book was postponed after Britney's younger sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, then 16, announced that she was pregnant.
In excerpts from the memoir, Mrs Spears rejected criticism that she was a pushy stage mother or had sought to profit from the careers of her daughters.
"I simply did not have the huge ambitions for (Britney) that I have been accused of," she writes. "Much has been written about how we were counting on our daughter to rescue us from financial ruin. Ha!"
Mrs Spears said she first felt she was losing control in 1999 when Britney, then 17, appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine in her underwear. She said the magazine photographer had taken Britney into her bedroom alone during the shoot.
"When I saw the cover, my heart sank and my face burned," wrote Mrs Spears, who quit her teaching job in 2002 to join Britney on tour.
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