Janet Jackson gushed about her seven-year-old son Eissa in a new interview, Daily Mail reports.
‘The most important thing I’ve done, the biggest thing I’ve done, is become a mother, and it’s had a beautiful impact on my life,’ the Control singer, Janet Jackson 58, told The Guardian.
Janet Jackson became a mother at age 51 with her ex-husband Wissam Al Mana. The couple separated soon after the birth of her son.
She continued: ‘I wanted to have three children, but thought, “I should stop there, that’s probably all I can handle.” Because you have to give all of yourself,’ she explained.
‘Obviously, you have to work, but you don’t come first anymore. Your life completely changes. And I wouldn’t trade it for anything,’ she said.
In another interview, the Rhythm Nation hitmaker echoed the same statement, calling motherhood ‘the most amazing thing she’s ever done.’
She also revealed the strict rules she has given her son, saying she is determined to make sure he has a normal childhood after she and her famous brothers were thrust into the spotlight at a young age.
Janet Jackson amassed huge success since starting out as a child star in the 1970s and while she is ‘so thankful,’ she has insisted she will not be putting Eissa on the same path.
‘I’m so thankful that God allowed me to experience motherhood, because it didn’t have to be, she told host Judi Love on a recent episode of Loose Women.
‘I do a lot of reflection, it’s amazing because kids don’t realize what you go through as a parent or what you have going on the back burner,’ she said.
‘It’s about him. If that’s what he wants, but I would say that he has to wait until he’s of age and still make sure that’s what he wants to do.
‘Whatever you do is very difficult. The industry is very tough, but he would have to wait until he is 18,’ she explained.
The candid confessions about motherhood and her son in The Guardian come from the same interview in which the Good Times star revealed she believes that Kamala Harris has a white father, which is the type of disinformation parroted on far right wing news channels like NewsMax.
‘Well, you know what they supposedly said? She’s not black. That’s what I heard. That she’s Indian,’ Janet said.
‘Her father’s white. That’s what I was told. I mean, I haven’t watched the news in a few days. I was told that they discovered her father was white.’
This is a talking point frequently referenced by Donald Trump.
Harris, 59, was born in 1964 to Dr Shyamala Gopalan, an Indian-born cancer researcher, and Donald J. Harris, a black Jamaican economics professor.