Jamie Lynn Spears' Lookalike Daughter Maddie, 15, Is a Head Taller Than Her at Prom

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It's been 15 years since Jamie Lynn Spears gave birth to daughter Maddie — and now her eldest is all grown up, attending prom, and is even significantly taller than her mom.

Maddie, 15, took to Instagram on Sunday, April 14, to share multiple photos from her prom. Spears, 32, reposted the images to her own Instagram Story.

"PROM 2024💟💟," the teen wrote alongside the carousel of fun photos, which featured Maddie wearing a hot pink, floor-length, one-shoulder dress with a high slit. She paired the gown with strappy white heels, a small bouquet of flowers, and wore her highlighted brunette hair down in loose waves.

Maddie posed with her date — who complemented her dress with a matching pink tie — her friends, and her mom, who, in one photo, stood between her daughter and her date and was easily a head shorter than Maddie.

Spears, who is also mom to daughter Ivey, 6, with husband Jamie Watson, welcomed Maddie in 2008 with then-boyfriend Casey Aldridge. She was 16 years old — which erupted into controversy given her age and the fact that she was starring on Nickelodeon's hit series Zoey 101 at the time. According to Spears, her parents and her team put an enormous amount of strife and pressure on Spears herself, who later claimed in her 2022 memoir that they tried to persuade her to have an abortion and allegedly kept her in lockdown.

"My family and management pulled me out of school until they could figure out what to do next. They took my smartphone away, fearing the news would get out, and insisted that no one share any information with anyone, especially the press. My daddy and I stopped speaking and the tension was terrible," she wrote in Things I Should Have Said: Family, Fame, and Figuring It Out. "They went so far as hiding my pregnancy from my sister, claiming, 'It's too risky to tell Britney [Spears] about the baby.' I needed her more than ever and she wasn't able [to] help me in my most vulnerable time."

Jamie Lynn Spears attends the 2016 CMT Music awards at the Bridgestone Arena on June 8, 2016 in Nashville, Tennessee. She is now shorter than her teenage daughter, Maddie. Jamie Lynn Spears attends the 2016 CMT Music awards at the Bridgestone Arena on June 8, 2016 in Nashville, Tennessee. She is now shorter than her teenage daughter, Maddie. John Shearer/Getty Images

She continued: "Everyone had their own opinion about what was best for me. ... 'It will kill your career. You are just too young. You don't know what you're doing. There are pills you can take. We can help you take care of this problem. Think about what you're doing to your family. Doesn't the family have enough to deal with? I know a doctor. There are procedures that remedy mistakes like this. You don't have to do this.'"

Ultimately, Jamie Lynn announced her pregnancy on the cover of OK! magazine and took time to raise Maddie out of the spotlight until rebranding as a country artist and re-entering the public eye in 2013.

Four years later, Maddie suffered a near-fatal ATV accident. Both mother and daughter are now coming to terms with the harrowing incident that almost cost Maddie her life.

"We did a lot of work, obviously, to process it and now it's more about focusing on the positive and the fact that it is a miracle," Jamie Lynn told Page Six in 2022. "That's how we discuss it now. It's our miracle anniversary, not our accident anniversary. And both Maddie and I are so grateful."

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