Janet Damita Jo Jackson was born May 16, 1966, in Gary, IN. She was the youngest of nine children in the Jackson family, and her older brothers had already begun performing together as the Jackson 5 by the time she was born. Bitten by the performing bug at a young age, she first appeared on-stage with the Jackson 5 at age seven, and began a sitcom acting career at the age of ten in 1977, when producer Norman Lear selected her to join the cast of Good Times. She remained there until 1979, and subsequently appeared on Diff'rent Strokes (1981-1982) and A New Kind of Family.

In 1982, pushed by her father into trying a singing career, Jackson released her self-titled first album on A&M; a couple of singles scraped the lower reaches of the charts, but on the whole, it made very little noise. She was cast in the musical series Fame in 1983; the following year, she issued her second album, Dream Street, which sold even more poorly than its predecessor. Upon turning 18, Jackson rebelled against her parents' close supervision, eloping with a member of another musical family, singer James DeBarge. However, the relationship quickly hit the rocks and Jackson wound up moving back into her parents' home and having the marriage annulled.

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Hey, nice topic start! I could do with some more new pics of her

She has god-like abs...

Edited December 18, 200520 yr by Qball

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here r some recent pics of her lol ...she has distorted eating, i feel bad for her

its an edating disorder, basically when she has projects out..like an album she diets, but to the point where she is anorexic and she refuses to eat...but when the projects over she becomes depressed and she binge eats daily

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I agree with you Allie. I remmeber many years ago when she was on tour and her diet was only fruit and salad. That's insane.

ia that really her???

Definitely her. It's all over the tabloid-ish sites... I bet it'll hit "Us Weekly" soon.

i feel so sorry about it

It has been said that she will be releasing a new album this year so she is getting back in shape so that she can promote it.

hiya yeh she has to lose i think its 40lbs and shes lost around 20 so far...and her first single comes out at the beginning of april, so i hope she does it!

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CFDA Fashion Awards 2006

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