When you hear the name Spears, you usually think of Britney Spears, no?

Between her isolation dances to ex Justin Timberlake’s bangers and accidentally burning her gym down with a candle (our greatest fear), the Grammy-winning singer is having a moment.

But turns out, so is her younger sister.

After a decades spent out of the spotlight, Jamie Lynn Spears is back on our TV screens in the show set to be Netflix’s next bingeworthy rom-com success,Sweet Magnolias.

WATCH: Check out the trailer for Sweet Magnolias below, post continues after video.

The 29-year-old plays Noreen Fitzgibbons, a young nurse who has an affair with the town doctor Dr. Bill Townsend – played by another familiar face,American Pieactor Chris Klein. The result? A messy, small town divorce and a baby on the way.

Noreen finds herself the subject of gossip, something Spears can relate to – from being a child star and the younger sister of the world’s biggest pop star, to living through a highly-publicised teen pregnancy.

Keep scrolling to find out what the younger Spears sister has been up to away from acting, and why she’s decided to return to the small screen.

Jamie Lynn Spears’ career: FromZoey 101to a country music album.

If you were a teenager in 2005, or parent of one, and had Foxtel, you’ll remember Spears played Zoey Brooks on her hit TV showZoey 101.

Spears was 13 when she took on the role, although she was no stranger to the celebrity life thanks to her sister’s fame. Before getting her own show, she had a cameo role in the Britney Spears filmCrossroads, and appeared on Nickelodeon’sAll Thatsketch show.

After only three seasons,Zoey 101ended in 2008. At this time, Spears disappeared from the spotlight.

Zoey 101 ran from 2005-2008. Image: Nickelodeon.

Jamie Lynn Spears was on her way to being a success in the entertainment industry like her sister. Image: Getty.

In 2008, Zoey 101 ended, much to the disappointment of fans. Image: Getty.

Six years later, she released a country album calledThe Journey. She's also done a lot of songwriting for other artists – in 2016, she won an award from the Nashville Songwriters Association.

Sweet Magnoliasis her first big acting role since finishingZoey 10112 years ago. In an interview withThe Hollywood Reporter, Spears said she didn't receive many acting offers during her time away from the industry.

"I've kind of been behind the scenes. I was in Nashville writing music for a while, for other artists and for myself. But there's nothing since I've had my children that I've passed on that I regret or that I remember being some huge deal," she said.

Jamie Lynn Spears' kids.

Like her older sister, Spears has two children – 11-year-old Maddie and two-year-old Ivey.

Maddie was born in 2008, around the same time the final episode ofZoey 101aired. Spears had announced her pregnancy with then-boyfriend Casey Aldridge at the end of 2007. She was 16 at the time.

Jamie Lynn Spears and Casey Aldridge before their breakup in 2009. Image: Getty.

"When I became pregnant my world came crashing down," she said of finding out she was pregnant in a petrol station bathroom in the 2016 documentaryJamie Lynn Spears: When the Lights Go Out.

"I am not going to sugarcoat it, things were not great there for a while. I felt extremely guilty, I lived my life trying to be this perfect girl and I was about to let people down. I knew I had a lot of young girls who looked up to me and I felt that responsibility, but at the end of the day, I knew I would have to make a decision as a young girl myself, to do something that I could sleep with at night."

Spears' teen pregnancy was highly publicised, with many assuming it was the reason her Nickelodeon series was cancelled. That same year, Britney Spears was making headlines after shaving her head in a 'meltdown' that saw her hand over control of her assets to her father in a conservatorship that's still in place today.

In 2009, a year after their daughter was born, Jamie Lynn Spears and Aldridge called off their engagement, splitting for good in 2010. In March 2014, Spears married businessman Jamie Watson. They welcomed their first child together, Ivey Joan, in 2018.