Janet Jackson: Michael and I ‘so much alike’

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Pop icon Janet Jackson spoke with The Today Show’s Meridith Vieira about specific sections in her new book True You that highlight some hard times and periods of insecurity in her life as she was growing up in the public eye.

Jackson touches on her widely popular music career that she says she “didn’t want,” her desire to go to college and study business law, and her continuing struggle with her weight. “I’m not gonna say that I don’t [have a eating disorder]. No one’s ever told me that I did, so there may be the possibility that I do. Do I have to be on top of it? Yeah, I do.”

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She even discusses on her family’s practice of keeping their emotions hidden from the public and how self conscious she was about her smile. “I thought it was too wide, Jackson says. And people would always say ‘we love your smile’ and I’d say why? It’s so, it’s so…it’s too big. My mouth is too big. Just issues.”

Jackson also reflects on happier emotions during the interview and talks about her love for her new beau and her close relationship with her brother Michael.

Although she has had to fight many internal battles through her life, Jackson states that she is in a better place and the voices of self doubt and self loathing are “very low, nice and low.”