Jamie Lynn Spears gave birth to a baby girl Thursday afternoon at a southern Mississippi hospital, according to a friend of the Spears family. The friend, who queried not to be called when the family had not yet announced the baby’s birth, imparted upon this the baby was named Maddie Briann and weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces.

The 17-year-old Jamie Lynn was the star of Nickelodeon’s “Zoey 101,” a sitcom regarding prep class friends, and is the younger doggy of pop star Britney Spears. The Spears family announced in December the Jamie Lynn was pregnant. The dad is Casey Aldridge, a pipe-layer according to Liberty, Miss. The couple is not married but announced an engagement a good number of cycles ago.

Ellen Brannan, spokeswoman for Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center, in McComb, will not submit out any details. “We can identify everybody’s interested, but we do not put up out hints on anyone. Everyone’s have a right to the privacy,” she said.

The younger Spears lifestyles pretty well Liberty amid Aldridge, 19, and has kept on observed everywhere the miniscule southern Mississippi town often as her pregnancy became a good amount apparent. Her family owns a house throughout the district series in Kentwood, La.

Spears announced her pregnancy with an prediction in OK! Magazine and was pending to acquire a extensive payday for exclusive pictures of the newborn.

Nickelodeon given a statement almost the birth on Thursday, saying, “We want her and her family well.” Nickelodeon spokeswoman Marianne Romano argued too filming of the fourth and closing season of “Zoey 101″ was wrapped up the previous summer before Spears became pregnant.

Spears depicted Zoey Brooks, a student at Pacific Coast Academy, a campus such a had been heard an exclusive all-boys boarding class until Zoey and a handful of further girls arrived. At the end of the series, Zoey becomes the boy