JACKSON STRUGGLED WITH 'BITCH' NICKNAME

Last updated: Saturday, November 4, 2006

JACKSON STRUGGLED WITH 'BITCH' NICKNAME

JANET JACKSON's struggles with self-esteem issues, growing up as the youngest Jackson, were multiplied when she started working with producers JIMMY JAM and TERRY LEWIS because they kept calling her a bitch.

Janet Jackson at the Songs of Hope IV held at The Esquire House 360. Beverly Hills, California- 01.11.06

The super-sensitive singer felt sure the hitmakers were ridiculing her and calling her names - like her brothers had done while she was growing up - and she'd break down in tears during phonecalls to her mum.

She explains, "They used to call me bitch, and I hated that... I called up my mother and said, 'I wanna come home because these guys don't have any respect for women.'

"But I came to realise that it was just a term of endearment."

Jackson admits she has been haunted by body image issues her whole life, and used to hate looking at herself in a mirror.

She explains, "I couldn't look at myself in the mirror without having to really focus on something that I liked about myself, and I would break out crying."

Source: WENN

| Saturday, November 4, 2006

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