Janet Jackson: Michael made me insecure

Janet Jackson says being teased by her brother Michael made her self-conscious about her figure. The All For You hitmaker has struggled with her fluctuating weight for years and admitted jibes from her older sibling led her to develop a poor body image.

Asked if Michael teased her during an appearance on TV show Good Morning America, she said, “Yeah about my butt being too big, and I carried that through my adult life, but they were just names of endearment.

“We always find something wrong in us. Somewhere. If it’s not our arms, it is our thighs … I would pick myself apart.”

Janet, 45, also explained her hurt when a wardrobe assistant on the TV show Good Times told her at the age of 10, that they would have to tape her breasts down and that she needed to lose weight.

Michael’s former doctor Conrad Murray was recently found guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of the Thriller hitmaker and Janet revealed she is happy with the verdict.

“Even though it doesn’t bring my brother back, the best was done at the moment,” she said.

It was recently revealed that Janet’s niece Paris — Michael’s 13-year-old daughter — had landed her debut movie role in Lundon’s Bridge and the Three Keys and her famous relative has warned her about getting involved in the entertainment industry at too young an age.

“I’m happy for her because this is what she wants to do,” she said.

“(But) I said, ‘You should really take this time to enjoy your youth to its fullest,’ because you lose so much of your childhood in this industry.”