There was a time — let's call it "January" — that Britney Spears and her sister Jamie Lynn appeared to be a post-holiday gift granted to us by the benevolent Tabloid Gods: while Britney checked into the psych ward and spurned Dr. Phil's advances, Jamie Lynn pulled a Juno and got pregnant at age 16. Since then, though, the media firestorm surrounding the two has begun to burn out. Even Britney herself appears kind of over it; as Jamie Lynn prepared to give birth away from all the flashbulbs in McComb, Missouri, the slow pace of her natural delivery prompted Brit-Brit to snap her gum in annoyance:

Everyone in the room at Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Centre in McComb, Miss., pleaded with Jamie Lynn to listen to the doctors -- including big sister Britney. Brit had already been with Jamie Lynn for hours, massaging her back as she endured painful contractions. "But she got mad," says the insider. She told Jamie Lynn to "just have a damn Caesarian," as she did.

The girls mother, Lynne, only added to the tension. "Lynne was already angry because her daughter didn't want her in the delivery room at all," says the source. "But she had insisted on being there, along with Casey Aldridge, Jamie Lynn's boyfriend. Jamie Lynn cussed and yelled at her mum, and told her to get out. She cursed Lynne for bringing her into the world to bear such pain."

Jamie Lynn's existential diss notwithstanding, might Britney have soured on the tabloid antics that come so naturally to her family? Nah — most likely, she was pained by the hospital scrubs required in the delivery room; once Britney was allowed to change back into purple Uggs, a muumuu, and a porkpie hat, she promptly whisked babydaddy Casey Aldridge away to "keep it in the family."

• Jamie Lynn Spears' Delivery Room Drama [Star Magazine]

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