Little Spears is pregnant.

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Originally Posted by msnbc.com

Jamie Lynn Spears never imagined she’d spend the summer of her 16th year bringing up a new baby. The new arrival will come in early July, according to a source close to the family, and despite the calm front her mother Lynne’s put up, sources say she’s the one taking the news hardest. In short, Jamie Lynn has dashed the hopes of a fallen showbiz family.

“Jamie Lynn was this family’s big hope. With Britney, one minute you’re in, the next you’re out,” said the source. “Brit had been supporting her family for years, and now all eyes were on Jamie Lynn.”

Jamie Lynn is the star of Nickelodeon’s hugely successful “Zoey 101,” and her future there — and income — are up in the air. Nickelodeon issued a statement to TMZ on Tuesday saying, “We respect Jamie Lynn’s decision to take responsibility in this sensitive and personal situation. We know this is a very difficult time for her and her family, and our primary concern right now is for Jamie Lynn’s well being.”

As for whether she’ll return to the show, Jamie Lynn told OK!, “I don’t know, I don’t know.”

“I don’t know how she can go back,” said the family friend. “And, what’s worse for the Spears is Britney doesn’t want to be a part of that Spears gravy train any more. That’s part of why Britney is freaking right now. With Jamie Lynn to focus on, she [Britney] was no longer the family’s only focus, and their only hope for income."

At the end of the day it also doesn’t help the Spears image that the father of the baby is Casey Aldridge, 19, who met Jamie Lynn in church and started dating her when she was only 13½. “Lots of people have been worried that this relationship was moving too fast. I guess there was a good reason to worry,” said a friend of the Spears family.