In early June Celebitchy wrote an article pointing out the obvious bias against southerners that could be found in some of the coverage of Jamie Lynn Spears’ pregnancy. Now that she’s given birth to Maddie, the press hasn’t exactly laid off her. Page Six reports that Jamie Lynn is turning into Britney.
When I saw the headline, I was assuming they had a story about how she’s a negligent mom or making dumb mistakes or something. Nope. She’s turning into Britney because of her penchant for Diet Coke and the fact that she probably won’t marry her baby’s father. And we all know what a slippery slope that is. Diet Coke clearly leads to driving with your baby on your lap.
Jamie Lynn Spears, who just gave birth to daughter Maddie Briann Aldridge at the ripe old age of 17, is in danger of heading down the same road as her sister, Britney. A Louisiana source tells us, “She only has Diet Coke in the house. How redneck is that?” As for her engagement to Casey Aldridge, the spy adds, “I doubt that’ll ever happen. Her mama [Lynne] doesn’t like him and thinks she can do better. They don’t want him anywhere near [Jamie Lynn’s] cash.” Britney, whom Jamie Lynn refers to as “my crazy sister,” has a well-known affinity for soda and Cheetos and had her first marriage, to Jason Alexander, annulled at her mother’s insistence. A rep for Jamie Lynn didn’t return calls.
[From Page Six]
I only have diet orange soda in my house. I’m pretty sure that makes me a “redneck” by that definition. It’s the joy of soda, but with the class of Cheetos coloring. I will grant that a new mother should probably have some milk. But it’s not like she’s only got some Boone’s in her fridge.
I really think the press should lay off Jamie Lynn if she makes some mistakes. Pretty much all new parents do, they just don’t have Page Six examining their every move. But Jamie Lynn is only 17. I’m sure that she’s just as overwhelmed and scared as most new parents are – perhaps more so. Some mistakes are inevitable, but it’s unfair for people to be watching everything she does to see when she’s about to fail like Britney did. I’m guessing she’s probably learned from her older sister’s mistakes, and will likely be able to keep it together.
Ugh, Boone’s. I drank enough of that shit when I was 18 to drown a horse.
Anyway, Page Six must be running on empty. This hardly counts as gossip
Maybe she ran out of juice and milk and all she had left was diet coke. This is so rude and dumb of Page Six to focus on that. There are times when all we have left in the fridge is diet soda. How does that make someone “redneck”? JayBird you are more redneck for the diet orange soda.
I was thinking the same thing – a “big orange drink” is way more redneck than Diet Coke. This is about the stupidest idea I’ve heard in awhile. I have some Yoo Hoo in my fridge – what does that make me?
I’ve actually classed it up a bit. I used to just have Mountain Dew. My goal is to move up to Fresca someday…
One of my fiance’s favorite “how do you spot a redneck” jokes is:
Whats you favorite flavor of kool-aid?
Rey-ed
😆 I think its funny, but I’m easily amused.
I bet Maddie will have trailer-baby feet as soon as she can walk
What are trailer-baby feet?
Oh, duh, sorry. Feet that are dirty from running around barefoot. I pretty much had permenant trailer-baby feet when I was a kid. 😉
I’ve also heard them called Teeter feet, as in having dirty feet from walking around the Harris Teeter (a grocery store) barefoot.
I can tell you’re all not from the Mid-West, we call soft drinks ‘pop’ out here. 😆
Ha! “Trailer-baby feet”.. we call it grocery store feet when they are grimey and dirty on the bottom! 😀
There is no real reason to have milk in the house if she’s not breast feeding. And going the formula-route does NOT make you a bad mother. I’m not a fan of the Spears clan, but when it comes to this kind of crap people should just shut it.
I live in the city but go barefoot as much as possible in the summer so I guess I have trailer-baby feet too!
I’m not going to bring up my whole “back off of J-L” stance from the previous OK mag post; I just think that they’re equating Diet Coke with Budweiser. Now THAT’S trashy. And sounds like my dorm fridge freshman year.
LOL @ ‘trailer-baby feet’ 😆
I can see by the previous comments I am far more sophisticated then any of you. I, only have Pepsi in my fridge. Thats Right, I’m up class and well to do…Ok I’m done and at 22 I still have ” trailer baby feet” …
Its cool, I have ’em at 26 & my dad has ’em at 60! 😆
Wow, I have Sweet Tea in my fridge constantly. I wonder what they would say if there was only refridgerated water in the house? 🙄
Nineteen, still have ‘trailer baby feet’ and proud of it!
that said, we don’t have any beverages in the fridge (we have a watercooler). that isn’t redneck, though, i guess it’s just…thirsty?
OH, and lay off JLS too, by the way. I don’t have anything against rednecks or young moms personally, but how on earth does having a baby at seventeen not make her a redneck, but having only Diet Coke does?? Come off it, people! Maybe she only has Diet Coke in the fridge because she’s…seventeen? Christ on a cracker, i tell you…
Why are they so mean about her? That said, diet coke tastes like shit.
lol! at ‘trailer-baby feet’…another barefoot poster here.
sorry but it’s those frosty beige hightlights that make her a redneck. haven’t seen that shade of “blonde” since 1972 when my mama would wrap her head in toilet paper to sleep.
Methinks the gossip rags are getting desperate. She’s a new mom for crissakes, probably trying to lose weight!
She looks like Nancy Grace on the OK Cover.
Gosh, I have trailer baby feet at 65!
@Daisy424 – it’s funny what they call carbonated beverages in different parts of the country. In St. Louis it was “soda” but in Kansas City it was “pop”. I recall one time staring blankly at a friend in Kansas City who was talking about her college roommate who called it “soda” and Kelly was laughing her head off about it In Oregon it was “beverage” and by then I was so confused I just had to move to the South where it’s “Coke”.
@Bodhi – ROTFLMAO at “Teeter Feet”!! Thanks for that laugh; you just won a special place in my heart for that!! I must blushingly admit that in the part of the south I grew up in Harris Teeter was considered the grocery store for “rich people”, so we would have had to use “Food Lion feet” if we had thought of it!! 😳 Luckily, I always wore my everso stylish flip-flops to ward off most of the offending trailer dirt!!
BTW, my fridge has only Coke Zero; is that as redneck as Diet Coke? lol!!
Squeaky, when you look at the pictures in the magazine, her hair looks blonde, not so ashy gray. It is just the lighting.
I love the comments. I guess we all have trailer baby feet and drinking soda, we’re all a buncha rednecks…yeehaw!
P.S. I am a Pepsi lover, when I do drink soda.
😛
Actually, I would also like to add, that having nothing but Diet Coke in the fridge might make her more of a pirate than a redneck. Vitamin C deficiency can lead to scurvy, so get thee to the grocery store and buy some OJ, JLS!
Just sayin, as a college student I’ve known someone who got scurvy from a diet of Ramen noodles and beer. Yeeeeahh…don’t judge young people from their eating habits, how well does anyone eat at that age anyway?
Glad I could make everyone smile! 😀
😆 @ Cassie!! JLS is no pirate!
totally BS!!!!
Well I’m a trailer-baby-footed-pirate too …. YARRRRR
But my “mineral” of choice is Pepsi too (d’you call fizzy drinks that too geronimo?). Coke is far too gassy 😆
I’m more concerned with the fact that she seriously looks 45 on the cover of “OK!
Maybe It’s celebrety moms period. I was having dinner at outback when I noticed R&B singer Monica was dining with her two cute sons. Everything was fine until Monica changed #2 off of her 3 maybe 4 year old son and then left the soiled diaper on the dining table! What ever Jamie Lynn does I hope she potty trains before 3 or use the RESTROOM AND CHANGING TABLE!!!!!!!
Nah, Teeter feet doesn’t work. Harris Teeter is an ultra high-end markup grocery store that prides itself on having hard to find expensive foods.
K-Mart feet I think is more descriptive. The smell of popcorn immediately comes to mind …
Mairead – Pepsi over here tastes like flat Coke.
Anyway, it’s all bad for you. Drink water instead. I’m amazed when I hear people say, “water???? YUCK, I hate water!” Okay, please tell me how you can hate the taste of something that’s tasteless.
Personally, I prefer water, OJ, or Mountain Dew to Diet Coke. I hate the taste.
Lay off of JLS, parasites.
@GG: UGH, I know! Everytime I hear someone say that I’m like ok then, try drinking something without ANY water in that, see how far that gets you. You’d have to drink stuff made with oil, which I sincerely hope does not exist.
I’ve actually had someone tell me that they don’t like water because it tastes bad (OOOK?) but it makes them gain weight. And I was like…uhm, drinking water by itself doesn’t make you bloated, eating stuff with salt makes you retain water. Not counting the temporary weight you get just by eating anything just for the fact that it’s, you know, MATTER, water by itself can’t gain you any real weight because it DOESN’T HAVE CALORIES, OMFG!! high school biology, anyone?!
/rant
Hey, if you hear someone say ‘I hate water’, you might consider asking them why. Believe me, there are a LOT of legitimate reasons to hate water.
I primarily drink sports drinks to stay hydrated, because yes, the water here tastes like ass. We have city water, had a water softener, filter, all that stuff – still tasted like crap. Half my family has well water, which is even worse. We’re talking rust colored, rotten-eggs smelling (high methane content in our wells here), crap.
Sorry, but when someone says ‘how can water taste bad when it has no taste?’, I get the feeling you’ve never lived in a rural area, or live on bottled water. Personally, if I am going to pay a ton of money for a beverage by either filtering the crap out of it or buying it in bottles, I would actually prefer to get some taste out of the deal.
I laughed at that “trailer baby feet” because that basically describes 90% of New Zealand kids and a large number of adults. There is a cultural practice here of not wearing shoes. I was gobsmacked when I moved to NZ. Kids wander around all day in bare feet, and its common for adults to do it too. Its amazing and every now and then there is a bit of a debate in the papers about whether or not as Kiwi’s we should make our kids wear shoes for health reasons.
Its not something I’m comfortable doing but when my shoe broke one summer day it was kind of nice to be barefoot and not have anyone think anything of it…
Scott; Try a water softner, worked for us. 😉
I have peach ice tea and Coke Zero in my fridge… does that count as redneck? Then again, I live in Spain… we don’t have rednecks here, just gypsies and they drink red wine mixed with orange Fanta.
Mairead, re ‘minerals’, yes! My dad still asks does anyone want a mineral to the puzzled bemusement of my non-Irish friends! Red lemonade used be my fav.
@ Scott F: I’ve actually lived in a VERY RURAL are (read: more trees than people, by about 1000 to one, no exaggeration) for nearly ten years now, we have well water as well. while at first it took some time to adjust from city water, after we got some tips on filters & the like from neighbors it took care of that. we still keep a water cooler for guests not used to the well water, though, lol
LOL geronimo – everytime I hear red lemonade, I keep hearing the skit of Bill Cullen and his “beeootiful thighs” on Today FM’s Last Word 😆
My British friends thought I was making red lemonade up it must be said.
Scott, you could always chuck a bit of lemon into your Hades water for taste 😉
well brit has 7-11 feet. And all thats in my fridge is diet coke. So I guess that makes me a redneck too. Better diet coke than a 12 of bud.
“My British friends thought I was making red lemonade up it must be said.”
LOL, What is it with them??! The hours I’ve spent with people rolling their eyes and looking at me as if I’m simple when I mention red lemonade. Apparently, ‘red’ lemonade is an impossibility’. So there. We’re wrong. 😀
LMFAO geronimo!!!! We should set Bill Cullen with his 3 litres of TK Red Lemonade, beeoootiful thighs and Renault cars on them 😆
The Scottish ones are assuming it’s Irn Bru. Now I think that’s mad.
Sad really – a whole nation refusing point blank to believe in the taste sensation that is Johnnie Walker & red
she’s to young 🙄