This Monday, April 18, the Canal + Docs channel is broadcasting the 3rd and 4th episodes of the new documentary series Janet Jackson. from 8:55 p.m. The singer reveals there to suffer from “food compulsion” and returns to her “weight problems” which would have started when she was 10 years old.
On Monday April 11, Canal + Docs offered the first two episodes of the event and unpublished series Janet Jackson., filmed in 2017, which returns in his presence to the life and career of Joe Jackson’s daughter. The 55-year-old star responded for the first time to rumors of her supposed hidden pregnancy in the 80s and confided in her destructive love affair with her singer husband James DeBarge, a drug addict who she said had abused her “innocence“.
Janet Jackson : “When I’m stressed or something’s wrong, eating comforts me“
A week later, this Monday, April 18, the channel offers the last two episodes of the documentary, which notably addresses the end of Janet Jackson’s love affair with dancer René Elizondo and his many criticisms of his physique. The opportunity for the one who became a mother at 50 to talk regarding the eating disorder from which she suffers: the “compulsive eating“. “When I’m stressed or something is wrong, eating comforts me. I always try to hold back, cut down, go on a diet… But I can’t help it“, explains the singer who was battling a depression in 2018. “A problem“which she would not have known, according to her, if she had not been in the spotlight throughout her life.
Janet Jackson : “When someone tells you you’re fat, even if that person loves you, it hurts you“
“When I was 10, I starred in the series Good Times. This is where my weight and confidence issues started. My forms appeared very early. I already had boobs so they bandaged my chest to make it look flatter“, she remembers. Without forgetting the mockery on the part of her brother Michael Jackson: “He gave me nicknames: they called me ‘pig‘, ‘cheval‘, ‘jerseys‘ or ‘cow‘. It wasn’t out of malice, not at all: brothers tease sisters, sisters tease brothers. It was just for fun“. But the damage is done : “Deep down, it hurt me. When someone tells you you’re fat, even if that person loves you, it hurts you“.
Find the rest of the doc-series Janet Jackson. on Canal + Docs this Monday, April 18 from 8:55 p.m. and on MyCanal.
