The fallout from Kevin Federline‘s book continues.
Jamie Lynn Spears has unfollowed her former brother-in-law on Instagram, Us Weekly can confirm. The move came after he included her private messages in his new memoir, You Thought You Knew.
Spears, 34, also stopped following Federline’s wife, Victoria Prince, on the social media platform.
Us has reached out to Spears’ reps for comment.
In his book, which hit stores on Tuesday, October 21, Federline, 47, shared two lengthy texts that he claimed Jamie Lynn had sent Prince, 42, about his two sons with ex-wife Britney Spears.
In response to Britney, 43, publicly “lashing out” at her kids, Sean Preston, now 20, and Jayden James, now 19, when they were still estranged, Jamie Lynn purportedly wrote, “Honestly, this makes me want to cry because I feel for those boys so much. I’m her little sister by 10 years, and I can’t imagine what her actual children must feel like at times, but I am familiar with the feeling of being a dingy trying to survive in a wave caused by another’s ship, feeling like you have to rescue yourself. I always wanted her to get better, especially for the boys.”
Jamie Lynn allegedly went on to admit that she had “started to resent” Britney for “how she treated” Preston and Jayden, adding, “I’m still trying to come to terms with how she could be so unaware of anything outside of herself.”
Federline claimed Jamie Lynn later sent Prince a second message that read in part, “I don’t think there’s enough money or material things in the world that would be enough to repay y’all [Federline and Prince] for doing what she [Britney] couldn’t be bothered to do as a parent. And I’m sure my sister has never thanked y’all for raising her children.”
When asked whether he had gotten Jamie Lynn’s permission to put her personal correspondences in his tell-all, Federline told Yahoo, “I don’t want to comment on that.”
Britney and Jamie Lynn’s relationship has been rocky since at least 2019.
The sisters first had a falling out over Britney’s controversial 13-year conservatorship, which worsened when Jamie Lynn released a memoir, Things I Should Have Said, in 2022 — just two months after a judge terminated the legal arrangement.
“As I was fighting the conservatorship and receiving a lot of press attention, she was writing a book capitalizing on it,” Britney fumed in her own 2023 tell-all, The Woman in Me. “She rushed out salacious stories about me, many of them hurtful and outrageous.”
However, a source exclusively told Us Weekly in September that Britney and Jamie Lynn were “doing a lot better” and even “planning on getting together soon.”
“The girls decided to keep their problems out of the public eye,” the source explained, with a second insider adding, “They really love one another, but they can be hardheaded siblings.”
As for Britney’s parents, the first source shared that there was “no chance of [a] reconciliation” between the pop star and her father, Jamie Spears, who served as her conservator from 2008 to 2021, and that Britney’s relationship with her mother, Lynne Spears, remained “fragile.”
