Jamie Lynn Spears' oldest daughter Maddie virtually died in 2017 after a devastating accident left her without a pulse. Here's what happened.
You might just know Jamie Lynn Spears as an actress and/or as the younger sister of father famous person Britney Spears. But that's not Jamie Lynn's most essential position. She's also a mother.
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The Zoey 101 alum has two stunning daughters: Maddie Briann Aldridge, 14, and Ivey Joan Watson, 5. And within the premiere of FOX's newest superstar pageant series Special Forces: World's Toughest Test, Jamie Lynn opens up a few near-fatal accident that Maddie continued. What precisely happened to Jamie Lynn's oldest daughter? Here's what we know.
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What happened to Jamie Lynn Spears daughter, Maddie?
Jamie Lynn defined in her e-book Things I Should Have Said that her daughter Maddie had a life-threatening accident in 2017.
While at her grandparents' space, Maddie went for a journey on her ATV or quad motorcycle. Unfortunately, she it seems that lost regulate and the ATV ended up submerged in a pond while she was strapped in. Fortunately, the young woman survived and suffered no primary damage. But for a while, it did not seem like Maddie used to be going to make it, and Jamie Lynn felt her entire global stop.
"She was unconscious, her body distended, face swollen and eerily blue. The EMT started CPR. Nothing was working — not the compressions or the forced influx of air. No response," wrote Jamie Lynn, recounting the accident.
She continued: "Wordlessly the EMT grabbed her lifeless body, flipped it over and began pounding on her back. I knew what I had just witnessed. My daughter's lifeless body."
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By that point, Jamie Lynn's family used to be already making telephone calls and handing over the tragic information that Maddie had kicked the bucket. But things started to look up when a fireman introduced that they had found Maddie's pulse.
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In the health center, it was nonetheless unclear whether or not or not Maddie would live to tell the tale. But Jamie Lynn's husband, Jamie Watson, used to be in a position to garner a response from Maddie that reassured the Sweet Magnolias celebrity that Maddie was once going to be OK.
"I looked up and my eyes widened at the wide-eyed expression on Jamie's face. He was looking into Maddie's open eyes. She painstakingly raised her finger with the pulse oximeter on it and pointed the small red light at Jamie. He smiled and said, 'E.T., phone home.' She held her finger up for a moment longer and he said it again. 'E.T., phone home.' At that moment I knew she was definitely coming back to us," wrote Jamie Lynn.
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Fast forward to lately and Maddie is flourishing and Jamie Lynn couldn't be more thankful. In a recent Instagram post, Jamie Lynn wished her daughter a contented birthday and celebrated her. "I’m so thankful for each and every day I get to be her mama, even during these teenage years lol. She has been my saving grace, since the day she was born," Jamie Lynn wrote.
Jamie Lynn stars in Special Forces: World's Toughest Test, which premieres on FOX on Jan. 4.
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