Janet Jackson Talks About Personal Struggles

It is very hard for me to imagine someone as beautiful as Janet Jackson having self-esteem issues and thinking that she is ugly.


However, the pop music icon revealed to Meredith Vieira that she has battled with not feeling good enough for years in an interview for Dateline. 


Janet is one of my FAVORITE artists and I looking forward to reading her new book, True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself. In it, she talks about her struggles with body image and how she wants others to learn from her personal story. Promoting good self-esteem is one of my passions and it is refreshing to hear one of my favorite artists not only encourage this but also share her problems, especially one who is notoriously private. 

Where do our feelings of being less-than come from? Why does emotional insecurity seem to follow us from the very start of our lives? If we’re going to figure that out, it might be helpful to go back to the beginning. The oldest stories are sometimes the most telling. 




She also talked about her close relationship with her brother, Michael. One thing that bothered me though was when she talked about where these body image & self-esteem issues come from. It sounds eerily familiar to Michael's story, both of which say that they were constantly put down by their father, Joseph. 

Check out the video from the interview below:



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