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I love the skulls on her shoulders

He is so cute, thanks Liika

Congrats to Doutzen, she is a beautiful bride

another from Terry Richardson's studio

I Love Chanel's "Game On" outfit, very cute

In the new issue of Essence Magazine

beautiful, can't wai to watch!

Katherine Jackson: 'I think of my son all through the day' "Sometimes during the day I can hear his laughter in my mind," said Katherine Jackson during her sweet and sad interview with Oprah Winfrey today. "I think of my son all through the day, all the time. I don't like to talk about him because I get all choked up." She wiped tears away. Later, she said, "It hurts. It really hurts." However, when Oprah asked if it was always sad to think of MJ, his mom said, "I think about him with a smile sometimes. I have a lot of good memories. That's one thing they can't take away from me." June 25? "The worst day of my life," she said. Ms. Jackson, as Oprah respectfully called her, had been out doing "field service," going door-to-door as a Jehovah's Witness. She recounted finding out that Michael was at the hospital and, eventually, that he was dead. The children "were crying. I thought Paris was going to pass out. ... I felt so bad. ... It was so sad." Added Jackson, "You know what broke my heart more than anything else in this world? When the people in the hospital told us, you can leave now. And Paris said, 'Grandma, where are we going?'" Michael's children, Paris, Prince and Blanket, joined the conversation in the backyard with several other Jackson family kids who live at the house. Paris said she wants "to be an actress" and Prince said he wants to "produce and direct." Paris and Prince go to school outside the house; Blanket is home-schooled. Oprah asked the kids about Michael taking them out with veils over their faces. Paris said, "It wasn't always comfortable," but she said, "I appreciated it." Paris' favorite memory of Michael? "One time we went on the roof in Las Vegas of our house and we saw all the city lights and we were eating Snickers. Sometimes he would take me to an art museum, because we both loved art. We would play tag. He got us Kenya (the dog) four years ago." And, she said, "He was the best cook ever. ... He made the best French toast in the world. He was the best dad ever." Other highlights: - On Michael's many plastic surgeries on his nose. "It was too small, like a toothpick," said his mom, adding "I hear people get addicted to plastic surgery and I think that's what happened to him. I had told him that's enough." But he didn't listen. She visited his plastic surgeon, she said, to ask him to stop. - On Lisa Marie Presley: Michael told his mom after the fact that he had married Presley, and he put her on the phone to talk. "It didn't sound like her. She sounded like a black girl," Katherine whispered to Oprah. - On drugs: "I spoke to him about them once when I had heard (he was addicted) and he denied it," says Katherine. "I was telling him I didn't want to hear one day he had overdosed because it would break my heart, kill me, too." - On Joe Jackson: "We're not divorced," said Katherine. Joe Jackson, joining Katherine and Oprah in the backyard, said, "We don't fight." - On beating the kids: "He used a strap," said Katherine. Joe said he did it to "keep 'em out of jail." And he had no regrets about it doing it, he said. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/en...ough-the-day-/1

good for ther though, she's loking out for her future.

I didn't recogize her in those new pictures at first but they're cute.

beautiful! thanks

^ thanks!!!!

MUCH ANTICIPATED NEW ALBUM FROM THE KING OF POP MICHAEL TO BE RELEASED DECEMBER 14 Exclusive Teaser and Song to be Unveiled on MichaelJackson.com New York, NY – The much anticipated album of newly completed recordings from Michael Jackson entitled MICHAEL will be released on December 14 by Epic Records in conjunction with the Estate of Michael Jackson. Tomorrow, an exclusive teaser for the project will appear on www.michaeljackson.com; on Monday, November 8th the world premiere of “Breaking News,” a full track from the album, will stream on the site for one week only. The creative process never stopped for the King of Pop who was always planning for his next album; unbeknownst to many fans around the world Michael Jackson was writing and recording songs continuously everywhere from a friend’s home in New Jersey to studios in Las Vegas and Los Angeles with a small group of handpicked collaborators. Now, through the unique stories that will be told about the songs that comprise MICHAEL, fans will get mind-blowing insight into how this artist worked and a chance to hear the songs he most recently created along with tracks that Michael had a desire to bring to fruition. “Breaking News,” a never heard before song by Michael that appears on the new album was recorded in New Jersey in 2007 and recently brought to completion. Fans can begin pre-ordering the album on www.michaeljackson.com in the next 24 hours. The attached image of the album cover of MICHAEL was created by painter Kadir Nelson in 2009. In the oil painting, Kadir – who is known for story telling through his art – takes us on a journey through some key moments and important people in Michael Jackson’s life. Stay tuned for the worldwide launch of the official first single from MICHAEL later this month. www.michaeljackson.com

She is gorgeous

Lanvin's Halloween party 10/29/2010

She Is Janet. Hear Her Roar. Why do men always try to protect Michael’s little sister? With a new movie, look, and perspective on life after a painful year, Miss Jackson is serving notice: she can handle her own bruise control. Maybe it’s the big brown eyes. Maybe it’s the baby-doll voice. Maybe it’s her unusual family. Whatever the cause, Janet Jackson has long noticed she has a peculiar effect on men and, frankly, she doesn’t get it. “For some reason, men always want to protect me from something,” says Jackson, 44, her eyes and that voice as vulnerable as always. “I find it interesting because I consider myself strong and perfectly able to take care of myself. But I’ve had that reaction all my life from men. It baffles me.” In the last few years, the role of Jackson’s chief protector has been played by director Tyler Perry. He’s been there through breakups and breakdowns, as a friend and, possibly just as important, a source of constant employment. While her music career has cooled, Perry’s cast her in his last three movies. In fact, she was in the middle of filming Why Did I Get Married Too with him in Atlanta when her mentor, idol, and older brother Michael died from an alleged drug overdose. Perry promptly hired extra security and prohibited photos of her from being released to the tabloids. He even changed the ending of the film—over her objections—because it featured her in a scene at a funeral. “It was just too eerie,” says Perry. “When I think of Janet, I just want to protect her. Not that she needs it—she can handle whatever comes her way, and she has. But when I see what she’s been through, it makes me want to intervene in any way I can.” All of which explains how they came to work together on their latest movie, For Colored Girls. The two had just wrapped up Married Too when Perry called to invite Jackson to see an Atlanta production of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf, the landmark 1974 Ntozake Shange play about a circle of African-American women who face so many hardships—rape, infidelity, infertility, the death of children—they could found their own Prozac nation. Typically, Jackson thought the invite was another one of Perry’s safety checks. “He worries about me a lot and calls sometimes just to see how I’m doing, so I had no idea he was thinking of making a movie out of the play—or that he’d want me in it, for that matter,” she says. Neither of them had ever seen the play. “I remember being about 10 years old and visiting Michael in New York when he was filming The Wiz. It was on Broadway then,” she says. “I always remembered it as the play with the really long name.” Perry had been hearing for years from women—most recently Whoopi Goldberg—who wanted him to adapt it. “I knew that some women really consider it the black woman’s bible,” Perrysays. “That was fascinating to me.” Shange’s beautiful and haunting play is an especially un-film-friendly work. The original piece was told, in a very ’70s way, largely through dance and verse. None of the characters even had names. The women in Perry’s version (played by Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise, Kerry Washington, Loretta Devine, Phylicia Rashad, and Goldberg) do break into soliloquies at unexpected moments, and one of them teaches dance. But Perry has deftly updated their situations to feel more true to 21st-century Harlem, though you still must get past the dated idea that all the women feel consumed and defined by their relationships with men (and that the men, with the exception of one noble policeman, are worthless). Jackson plays Jo, a high-powered magazine editor from the Devil Wears Prada school. “Tyler named her Carmen, but Carmen doesn’t seem cold, heartless, and hard. I thought her name should be Jo, which is a little more cold and masculine. It’s also my middle name,” she says. It is also the name of her difficult and demanding father, Joe, which Jackson acknowledges only with a wry smile. Whatever her inspiration, Jackson knew she wanted to own Jo in a way she never has before with a character. It was Jackson’s idea to cut her hair into an no-nonsense pixie and to wear power red in every scene (including the soles of her Christian Louboutin shoes). “I know I drove Tyler crazy with my endless texts and calls with my ideas on everything. I worried he’d change his number by the time the movie started filming,” she says. It wasn’t just about the wardrobe. Jackson understood Jo’s devastating secrets (which we are about to reveal, so stop reading if you don’t want to know) in a number of personal ways. Jo’s husband cheats on her—with men. “I’d been in my own marriage where there was a huge pink elephant in the room and I just ignored it. It wasn’t that exact same situation, of course, but there was something wrong that I wouldn’t admit to myself and just stayed,” she says. By the end of the movie, we discover that Jo’s husband has given her AIDS. “I guess my first thought was going back to when Magic Johnson announced he had AIDS. He was such a close family friend, so I still remember that day and that feeling,” she says. “And of course I’ve had so many friends pass away from AIDS who never talked about it until they got sick. So all their names were racing through my mind.” In its way, making the film was harder on Perry. He is probably the most successful African-American director of all time (his films have earned more than $500 million), but he’s done mostly broad comedies in which Perry himself acts in drag as the salty battle-ax named Madea. Goldberg may have been confident Perry was right for Colored Girls, but many African-Americans quietly questioned whether he’d have the sensitivity and skill to pull off a drama about multidimensional women. Perry was so conscious of the naysayers, he posted a letter on his Web site to assure viewers that he’d treated the play with respect. “I think some people worried I’d actually put Madea in this film,” says Perry, 41. “I wanted my fans and fans of the play to know that I understood the historical importance of this project and treated it that way. I understood their reservations.” For Jackson, at least, the film hit the spot. “As an African-American woman, I know how strong we’re supposed to be and how we hold so much in,” she says. “But that has to change. I had to change.” The proof is written all over her face—she looks thinner and happier than she has in years. Part of that undoubtedly comes from her personal life: she is dating Wissam Al Mana, a reported billionaire and native of Qatar who is nine years her junior. Part of it comes from making peace with her past. She’s written a sort of self-help book/memoir, True You, that focuses on her ongoing issues with her weight and her self-esteem. “Our children are struggling with so much today,” she says. “I wanted to share something about my own life that might help them with theirs.” And part of it just comes from the passage of time and the wisdom that comes from experience. It does get better (to borrow a phrase), but not all at once, and that’s OK, too. “When I was filming last year, I had moments when my feelings over Michael’s death would burst through and I couldn’t stop them,” she says, taking a brief pause. “This story took me to a different place so the pain of his death didn’t surface as much, but of course it’s always there.” http://www.newsweek.com/2010/10/28/janet-j...in-control.html

He's so handsome

Premeire 'For Colored Girls' October 25, 2010