Jamie Lynn Spears opens up about teen pregnancy

It's really a shame that MTV's Teen Mom wasn't quite ready to air five years ago, when Britney Spears' little sister Jamie Lynn announced she was pregnant (the father was her boyfriend at the time, Casey Aldridge).

In the latest issue of Glamour, Spears opens up about her teen pregnancy, how she came to the decision to have the baby and how it changed her life forever.

"It was 2007," she told Glamour. "I had been on a Nickelodeon show, Zoey 101, and after we wrapped shooting, I just wanted to go home to Louisiana and finish high school, be a cheerleader, all that. Then I found out I was pregnant. I was young. I was in love. i was like every other teenager, except I had this last name. And I made a decision that is forever my decision."

Spears also talks about her position on birth control. According to E! Online, she says she knew it was important to use birth control and have safe sex, but she was scared to go to the doctor because of who she was, who her family was and the position she had taken on as a role model for young girls. The decision to go public with the news, Spears said, was a one she debated over for a long time, but ultimately felt she owed it to her fans.

"I did feel responsible for the young girls and the mothers who I probably confused and let down," Spears said. "I apologize for that. But I wasn't trying to glamorize teen pregnancy. I hated when [the tabloids] said that. Everybody is dealt a hand of cards. It was my choice to play them the way I played them. But the hateful comments hurt."

The star says she leaned on older sister Britney for support, and says their bond as mothers bonded them and brought them closer together. The support from Britney, as well as from the rest of her family, helped her through the hard time and she is now ready come back into the public eye and restart her career.

"I was a kid who did a kid show," she said. "Then I went away and raised my child, and the world has never met me as an adult. This is the first time anybody is really meeting me as a grown woman and grown mother making a decision about what to do with my life."