Janet Jackson
She talks about the struggle to accept her body
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Janet Jackson opens up about her lifelong struggle to accept her body and reveals her very own take on the aging process in a rare interview.
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Sometimes fuller, sometimes slimmer, the nose sometimes wider, then narrower and many other beauty tricks – singer Janet Jackson, 55, has known all of this since early childhood. She has come a long way to be at the point where she finally feels comfortable in her own skin, as she herself reveals. In an interview with the US magazine “Allure”, the singer speaks openly about her personal attitude towards aging in the show industry.
Janet Jackson: “I hope I age gracefully”
The singer is open about the aging process: “We all get to this point at some point. We all want to stay young forever, but the aging process is inevitable,” Jackson said openly. “However, there are other possibilities. I don’t know when my day will come, but eventually it will come and I can choose which path I will take. I hope I age gracefully. It’s either a little Tata or graceful,” adds she added.
It took a lot of courage for the singer to finally show skin
Looking back on the early days of her career, Janet, who is currently producing a new documentary in which she tells her own story, opens up about consciously turning away from traditional female dress and never wanting to be just feminine: “I was always rather tomboyish. It worked always about pants, suits – even as a young teenager”, Jackson explains her style before she released her album “Janet” in 1993. “I look back on pictures and I’ve always had on a suit with a tie, bow tie or suspenders. I’ve always loved to wear black and never wanted to reveal much of my body,” she added.
Janet Jackson: “I had to learn to love my body first”
Jackson experienced something of a change of heart when she decided to plunge into “the lion’s den” by posing topless with just her hands over her breasts for Rolling Stone Magazine’s legendary cover shoot. “Me to accepting and learning to love me for myself, my body, that was a big step. I try to be comfortable with it,” Jackson explains. “Just get going, wanting to do something different. It took a lot of work, but I’m glad I made it. It was a way of accepting and loving, accepting myself and my body.”
The singer-songwriter – who shares son Eissa Al Mana, 5, with ex Wissam Al Mana, 46, is thrilled to see how the music industry has changed in recent years thanks to new artists and their body positivity: “You feel despite her fuller dress size, she is in her own skin and shows it, I think it’s great and I love it, unlike before,” she said. “I used to always have to be skinny and always look a certain way. And now everything is accepted and it’s all beautiful and I absolutely love that.”
Sources used: Allure, Instagram.com
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