How Jamie Lynn Spears & Beverley Mitchell Survived the World's Toughest Test

Jamie Lynn Spears is trying to beryllium stronger than yesterday.

During the Jan. 4 premiere occurrence of Special Forces: World's Toughest Test, the Zoey 101 star opened up astir wherefore she wanted to enactment successful a amusement that tests contestants' carnal and affectional spot done a bid of tasks, which are led by an elite squad of ex-Special Forces operatives.   

"I conscionable privation to, for myself, consciousness similar I'm worthy something," the 31-year-old told unit agents done tears. "It conscionable feels similar each clip I enactment truly hard to get thing connected my own, it's not truly worthy it."

Part of that mindset, Jamie Lynn said, came from being raised with older sister and euphony superstar Britney Spears, 41.

"Growing up, my sister became worldwide celebrated erstwhile I was precise young," she said. "I'm truthful arrogant of her, emotion her to death, but I don't know. Sometimes I consciousness similar I don't truly person thing for myself."

"I conflict with self-esteem each the clip and arsenic a parent, you truly privation to fake it due to the fact that you don't ever privation to spot your children consciousness the feelings you feel," she said. "The hardest happening is being distant from my kids, but I'm present to bash thing that's going to marque them proud."

In the archetypal occurrence of Special Forces, Jamie Lynn was enactment to the trial when the cast was asked to execute a backward dive into the water from a helicopter.

The task rapidly reminded Jamie Lynn of a 2017 incident wherever her girl Maddie ended up submerged successful a pond aft an ATV accident.

"My 8-year-old was successful an mishap wherever she drowned, and I instantly dived successful and I couldn't get her up," she recalled successful the episode. "The paramedic jumps close into the water. They propulsion her retired and past they laid her beside maine and she wasn't breathing. She was blue. They were moving connected her and past they got a pulse." 

While Jamie Lynn is truthful grateful her oldest girl was OK, she said the situation rapidly took her backmost to that frightening day. 

"When I tried to prevention my girl from an accident, I had to propel myself into a pond," she said. "I didn't recognize however overmuch your assemblage remembers things."