Lynne Spears

Lynne Irene Spears (née Bridges; born 1955) is an American author and the mother of pop singer Britney Spears and teen actress Jamie Lynn Spears. Spears was born in McComb, Mississippi. Her mother, Lilian Irene Portell (1924–1993), was a native of Hendon, London. Her father, Barney O'Field Bridges (1919–1978), was an American G.I.. In 1945, her parents met and married in Hendon. Her maternal great-grandfather, Edward Portelli, was Maltese and emigrated to England, where he married Alice Taylor. Spears has an older brother, Barry "Sonny" Bridges (born 1951), and had an older sister, Sandra Bridges Covington (1947–2007), who died of ovarian cancer. In 1975, she married James "Jamie" Spears. They were divorced by 2002 and reconciled in 2010. Jamie and Lynne Spears have three children: son Bryan James (born 1977) and daughters Britney Jean (born 1981) and Jamie Lynn Marie (born 1991). They also have three grandchildren: grandsons Sean Preston Federline (born 2005) and Jayden James...