Lynne Spears

Lynne Irene Spears ( Bridges) is an American author and teacher. She is the mother of Bryan Spears, Britney Spears and Jamie Lynn Spears. Biography Early life and family Lynne Irene Bridges is believed to have been born around 1955 in Magnolia, Mississippi to Lilian Irene Portell (1924–1993), a British woman of English and Maltese descent, and Barney O'Field Bridges (1919–1978), an American G.I. In 1945, her parents met and married in Portell's native London. Spears' maternal great-grandfather, Edward Portell, had immigrated to the United Kingdom from Malta while the country was a colony of the British Empire. Spears has an older brother, Barry "Sonny" Bridges (born 1951). Their older sister Sandra Bridges Covington (1947–2007) died of ovarian cancer. In 1991, Lynne along with daughters Britney and Jamie Lynn moved to a sublet apartment in New York City, when Britney began attending Professional Performing Arts School. Her husband Jamie and son Bryan stayed in Kentwood. Britney soon began appearing on The Mickey Mouse Club (1993–1996), but it was canceled on its second season, and they returned to Kentwood.