Jamie Lynn Spears Reveals Why She Fled Hollywood

Child star  has shared the bleak reactions she received to her teen pregnancy, and revealed why she decided to flee Hollywood to raise her baby. 

Now 35, the actress, who is the younger, estranged sister of , escaped Tinseltown to focus on creating a 'stable' life for .

Spears became pregnant at 16 while filming the Nickelodeon show Zoey 101, and she now says she was 'called the biggest letdown in the world' for being a teen mom.

'I was told my life was over. It was really, really tough not to believe those things,' she told People this week.

She fled for 'the middle of nowhere' in as she prepared to raise her child with then-boyfriend Casey Aldridge.

'It really was just me and her,' Spears, ultimately split from Aldridge, recalled. 'I had to be like, "Look, this little girl needs you. You better figure it out." I wanted to create a good, stable life for my daughter.'

The entertainer said she wanted her daughter 'to have a mom she could be proud of.'

She explained to the outlet, 'I wanted to make sure [she knew] that it wasn't her fault that she got a mom who was 16 and pregnant.