Three years ago, when Sean Preston and Jayden James were just a twinkle in Britney Spears'' un-court-monitored eye, she wrote
in one her Letters of Truth, "Cooking is kind of like motherhood. To be really good at it, you don''t need instructions. You kind of just go on instinct and what feels right."
And we all know how that turned out.
So we''re a wee bit concerned now that her
little sis, Jamie Lynn, 16, whose bombshell baby revelation to OK! still has us reeling, appears to be adopting a similarly intuitive attitude.
"I think it''s something that you just know how to do," she tells OK! of the bun baking in her oven. "As your body changes and all these things happen, I think it becomes natural to know what to do."
Even more disconcerting is Jamie Lynn''s conviction that she''ll learn everything she needs to know from mother Lynne, who we''re guessing isn''t about to sit her down for a chapter-by-chapter discussion of "What to Expect While You''re Expecting" or the pros and cons of the Ferber method.
"I have a great mom and she has raised three kids, so if I take lessons from her, I think I''ll be great," the "Zoey 101" starlet tells the magazine of Lynne, who has taken the brunt of the blame (rightly or wrongly -- your call) for the way her showbiz-steered offspring have turned out.
"My mom will be helping me so much," she adds. "I have to take responsibility and do a lot of it myself, but she''s going to have to teach me so much."
(By the by, Britney, who, like Jamie Lynn, was apparently never schooled on that whole "actions having consequences" thing, once referred to the capriciously estranged Lynne as "Supermom" and the "best role model.")
On the plus side, says JLS, "I love babies, and I have nephews that I love ... All my friends have little brothers or sisters."
Meanwhile, an insider posits to "Access Hollywood" that Jamie Lynn still has "the mind of a teenager. She doesn''t understand the ramifications. She''s just a child with not a lick of sense."
What''s more, she''s "not thinking 10
years down the road, not even two years down the road," sighs the source. "There''s no reasoning with her."
And while Jamie Lynn confesses to OK! that discovering she was pregnant came as a "complete and total shock ... I can''t say it was something I was planning to do right now," a not-so-close relation offers another theory, namely, she did it deliberately to separate herself from her big sister''s downward spiral drama.
"She wants a little bit of ''me'' attention, with everything that''s going on with Britney like it is," Chanda McGovern, the former wife of Jamie Lynn''s uncle, tells the New York Post. "It may be one of the reasons she went out and did what she did, and whether she got pregnant on purpose or by accident, that''s the reason she went out and rebelled."
Brit, who was said to be "frantic" over the baby news, now supposedly sees an upside to Jamie Lynn''s new tabloid-topping status.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports she had a "testy" phone conversation with her enceinte sibling when she discovered OK! knew about her impending stork visit before she did.
After they hung up, the paparazzi-courting calamity purportedly turned to her assistant du jour and said, ''''Well, the good news is, this will take the focus off me for a while.''''
And it seems it didn''t take her long to get excited about becoming an aunt.