It looks like the hope that Britney Spears’ poor example wouldn’t rub off on her little sister is dead. Jamie Lynn Spears, 16, star of Nickelodeon’s “Zoey 101” is pregnant, according to the kid’s network. It’s been commented that older sister Britney was too young for so much responsibility when she got pregnant with husband Kevin Federline at 23. Considering how Britney handled it at that ripe old age, one can only wonder (and worry) about Jaime Lynn.

“It was a shock for both of us, so unexpected,” she says. “I was in complete and total shock and so was he.” Spears is 12 weeks along and initially kept the news to herself when she learned of the pregnancy from an at-home test and subsequent doctor visit, she told the celebrity magazine, which hits stands in New York on Wednesday and the rest of the country by Friday.

“As soon as I found out for sure from the doctor, I took two weeks to myself where I didn’t tell anybody,” she says. “Only one of my friends knew because I needed to work out what I would do for myself before I let anyone’s opinion affect my decision. Then I told my parents and my friends. I was scared, but I had to do what was right for me.”

Spears broke the news to her mother, Lynne, just before Thanksgiving, the magazine says. “She was very upset because it wasn’t what she expected at all,” Spears says. “A week after, she had time to cope with it and became very supportive.”

[From the Associated Press]

Jamie Lynn told OK! that the father is her longtime boyfriend Casey Aldridge, even though she recently told the Associated Press that didn’t have a serious boyfriend, noting “I kind of just keep my options open. I have a bunch of friends that I always hang out with, a bunch of guy friends.”

I can’t say why, but somehow I have more faith in Jamie Lynn’s ability to raise a baby at 16 than I have in Britney’s ability to do it at 26. I don’ think either of them are rocket scientists, but Jamie Lynn somehow still seems to have it together more than Britney. I realize that’s kind of an ironic statement to make right now, but it’s still somehow seems true. Jamie Lynn seems very close with her mother and the rest of her family. Hopefully they’ll all be able to pull it together and make it work.