[4] Spears' maternal great-grandfather, Edward Portell, had immigrated to the United Kingdom from Malta while the country was a colony of the British Empire.
[8] Britney soon began appearing on The Mickey Mouse Club (1993–1996), but it was canceled on its second season, and they returned to Kentwood.
[10] Spears owned and operated a day care in Kentwood, Louisiana and later worked as a schoolteacher.
A Mother's Gift was a novel released in 2001 and has been adapted into an ABC Family television film Brave New Girl.
[15][16] In 2020, she played the role of a stage mom in her daughter Jamie Lynn and Chantel Jeffries' music video for the song "Follow Me".