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Justin Bieber is working on a movie of his life… sorta.

Let’s back up just a bit.

It was widely reported this week (here at GossipTeen too) that The Biebs is writing a memoir, of his 16 year old life. Well, that’s only partially true. The bite sized Canadian pop star has twittered about the real deal:

“It isn’t a memoir … I teamed up with this amazing photographer Robert and he has been taking pictures behind the scenes from before the tour,” Bieber wrote. “So the book will include all those pics and I’m going to tell the story of all that led up from rehearsals until the first night of the tour. Pretty excited about it and think everyone will enjoy the story and the pics. We can all agree I’m a little too young to write a memoir.”

Now that we’ve got that part cleared up, the movie is a kind of companion piece in a way. It will be 3-D, it will have some biographical elements to it but it won’t be purely about his rise to stardom. It will cover his concert tour and have behind the scenes looks at JB as he sets out to dominate the world, one tween at a time.

Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) will not be the director of said film. Once a helmer is put in place, Valentine’s Day is the goal for the opening date.

Biebernation is happening.

It’s not often sixteen year olds get to sail solo around the world so when one brave teen takes on the challenge, everyone takes note. Abby Sunderland, has attempted the adventure and she has found herself in the middle of not only the Indian Ocean, but a heated debate about what a teen should or shouldn’t be allowed to do on their own.

Sunderland set sail in her yacht, Wild Eyes, in an attempt to be the youngest person ever to circumnavigate the globe non-stop, alone and unassisted. In April she had to stop in Cape Town, South Africa for repairs and while it ended the non-stop part of her quest, Abby continued on after her auto pilot system was fixed. On June 10th, Sunderland set off her EPRIB’s (emergency beacons) after her boat was turned on it’s side and the mast snapped thanks to a storm near Madagascar. A rescue plane has spotted the teenager and her disabled boat and a nearby fishing vessel has been dispatched to pick up the stranded-at-sea teen.

Abby’s father, Laurence Sunderland, is telling reporters that his daughter’s journey is over for now, but the debate is raging on: was she too young to try it in the first place? Should her parents have stopped her? Would waiting until she was eighteen made that much of a difference? It wasn’t too long ago when the world was asking the same questions of Jessica Dubroff’s parents. Dubroff died in 1996 when she attempted a solo flight at the age of seven and was tragically unsuccessful.

What do you think? Is Abby brave or foolhardy? Are her parents supportive of her dreams or way to lenient? Sound off below!

Learn more about Abby on her official blog here and this one that her parents update.

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Sweet sixteen it is for Dakota Fanning today, February 23rd. The star of the upcoming film The Runaways, celebrated over the weekend with a dinner in Beverly Hills. Happy Birthday to Dakota!

Taylor Momsen had a sixteenth birthday party this week, at Maritime Hotel’s Hiro Ballroom in New York City and performed with her band, Pretty Reckless. Her ‘Gossip Girl’ co-stars, Jessica Szohr and Ed Westwick, were on hand helping her celebrate and squelched the rumors that they are no longer together.

Earlier this week, it was announced Taylor landed the September Teen Vogue Cover. See her pictures here. Always love Momsen! She has great style.

After showing off her engagement ring for a few months, it appears Jamie Lynn Spears has now called off her engagement to her baby’s father, Casey Aldridge. The former Zoey 101 star shocked the world when she announced she was sixteen and pregnant in December 2007. She has since stepped away from the spotlight and is living in Louisiana raising her daughter Maddie Briann with Aldridge. No official word on the engagement or dis-engagement as the case may be. It is being said that Spears thinks she is too young to be married.

Having a casual day out with her mom and a friend, Miranda Cosgrove celebrated her 16th birthday on May 14th, in Los Angeles. Her mom and friend grabbed a cake early in the day and the trio had lunch together at Cafe Was. It also looks like Cosgrove got Guitar Hero: World Tour for her sweet sixteen.

A while back, we reported how Miley Cyrus had gotten her mom’s handme down Porsche for her sixteenth birthday. Now Miley has decided to go with her own new hybrid Toyota Prius and do some green global good instead of driving the gas guzzling sports car. She is customizing the inside of her Prius right away!

Her first item of decor: “I’m gonna get Hello Kitty floor mats!”

She also likes the Prius because it’s bigger and she can drive with more of her friends in this car versus the Porsche. Great for her. Now if only she can convince mom and dad to stop driving the fancy bad for the environment porsche.

Miley Cyrus has gotten a new car to drive, mom’s porsche. Since Tish Cyrus (mom) was getting something new, she gave 16 year old Miley a seriously sweet new ride. Ok, who wouldn’t want a porsche to drive? Even if it was your mom’s old car and you can only drive it when she is with you. That’s Miley Cyrus’s life: a porsche to drive and a model boyfriend. Lucky girl!