In less than a week, fans will be able to go back to PCA when the much-anticipated Zoey 101 sequel movie, Zoey 102, finally premieres on Paramount+. The film will see Jamie Lynn Spears reprise her role as the titular Zoey Brooks, and some other stars from the hit early-2000s Nickelodeon series are set to return too. The show originally ended in 2008, and at the time, people couldn’t help but notice it was around the time that Spears was expecting and as a teenager. Now the actress is opening up about what it was like getting pregnant at the end of Zoey 101 and the major backlash she received.
While getting pregnant as a teen already turns heads, going through it in the public eye at the height of a career and while on a children’s network surely makes it even harder. Even though some people thought Zoey 101 ended because Jamie Lynn Spears got pregnant, it’s been confirmed that the network already planned to end the series beforehand. The Sweet Magnolias star told Variety that when the series wrapped, she felt it was time to get off-grid after finding out she was pregnant, even if it meant turning down scripts. She explained:
