Janet Jackson Reveals That Michael Jackson Used To Call Her A “Pig & Cow,“: “Somewhere Down Inside It Would Hurt”
In Janet Jackson’s upcoming documentary “Janet,” the star talks about the “scrutiny” that comes with having a famous last name. She also recalled her relationship with her late brother Micheal Jackson, the good and even the bad.
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In the doc which airs this Friday on A&E, the 55-year-old pop star shares that her brother Mike would taunt her about her weight, and she says it had a lasting impact on her: “There were times when Mike used to tease me and call me names. Pig, horse, slaughter hog, cow,” Jackson said, according to Page Six.
“He would laugh about it, and I’d laugh too, but then there was somewhere down inside that it would hurt,” she continued. “When you have somebody say you’re too heavy, it affects you.”
Janet Jackson went on to explain her weigh issue started after went big as the Jackson 5, an 11-year-old Janet finally caught her own big break with a role on 1970s sitcom “Good Times: “I did ‘Good Times’ and that’s the beginning of having weight issues and the way I looked at myself.”
In the doc, Janet also gets into many other things including her marriages and relationships even with Jermaine Dupri and Wissam Al Mana, the father of her son.
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