Janet: I’m No Mother
Janet Jackson does not have any children that she knows of.
The famously secretive pop star broke her silence Wednesday on assertions by her former brother-in-law that she had a secret 18-year-old daughter.
“I do not have a child, and all allegations saying so are false,” Jackson said in a brief statement.
Jackson did not mention ex-husband James DeBarge. She didn’t have to–Young DeBarge, one of James DeBarge’s brothers, did that himself last Friday during an interview on New York City’s WQHT-FM (“Hot 97”).
Young DeBarge said on the air that his brother and Jackson, who were briefly married from 1984 to 1985, had a baby together. The child, named Renee, was raised by Jackson’s eldest sister, Rebbie, he said.
When not dishing on family gossip, Young DeBarge was said to be promoting an upcoming album.
Jackson, meanwhile, reportedly was moving on to more pressing matters–namely, trying to get a stalkerazzi video of her backyard sunbathing routine off the Internet, MSNBC.com said.
The clip, making the rounds for about a month, shows a slap-happy Jackson playing her bare bottom “like bongos,” as the New York Post originally put it. “I believe that she’s particularly unhappy about this video because she√≠s not in great shape,” a source told MSNBC.com’s Jeannette Walls.
Jackson, 39, prefers to show off her shape at the Super Bowl.
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