In her new documentary, 'Janet', pop star JanetJackson reveals details of her relationship with body image and the long journey with self-love.
She alleges that he called her names like “‘pig, horse, slaughter hog, cow” and while she would good-naturedly brush the comments aside, Jackson admits in the upcoming documentary that “somewhere down inside that it would hurt,” per the
. She also heartbreakingly shares, “When you have somebody say you’re too heavy, it affects you.” The “Control” singer says her weight issues began in 1977 when she joined the cast of. “I was developing at a very young age and I started getting a chest and they would bind it,That put Jackson in a stressful situation at both work and home, and as an “emotional eater,” she found that food comforted her.
magazine in 2012. “Because I will continue to pick on myself, like all women do, and say, You need to [lose] more here, more there.”and appreciate all of the incredible gifts her body has given her. But she does acknowledge that most of her body image issues wouldn’t have happened if she hadn’t had a career in the public eye. “I probably would have wound up not having a problem,” she sums up in the documentary — and might be the saddest part of it all.
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