Janet Jackson is content being a mother of one.
Jackson, who with her ex-husband Wissam Al Mana in January 2017, discussed her approach to motherhood during a Sept. 21 interview with and how it changed her life.
“The most important thing I’ve done, the biggest thing I’ve done, is become a mother, and it’s had a beautiful impact on my life,” she told the outlet.
Jackson, , also opened up about her decision to not have more children after welcoming her son.
“I wanted to have three children, but thought, ‘I should stop there, that’s probably all I can handle,’” she said. “Because you have to give all of yourself, you have to spread the love, and I wouldn’t want any of them to feel left out if I had three.”
She added, “Obviously, you have to work, but you don’t come first any more. Your life completely changes. And I wouldn’t trade it for anything.”
Jackson , both on stage and in their variety show “The Jacksons,” before appearing in several popular TV shows and kickstarting her solo music career as a teenager.
When asked how different she viewed her childhood compared to Eissa’s, Jackson said they were “completely different, because I worked and he doesn’t. And that’s it.”
She explained, “I want him to experience being a child, because you don’t get to do this over. You’re an adult for the rest of your life, so I want him to enjoy each and every minute of being a child.”
As for whether or not she has adopted a different parenting method from her own parents, Katherine Jackson and the late Joe Jackson, she initially replied, “Don’t you think you’ve learned from your parents?”
“There are some things you wish your parents had done differently and you say, ‘No, I’m gonna tell [my son] this.’ Because if they had done this with me, it would have been much better for me as a child,” she said. “I hated it as a kid, but I’m thankful for it now. I have to give credit to my parents for keeping me grounded.”
Jackson has largely kept her son out of the private eye as a mother.
In Lifetime and A&E’s four-part documentary “Janet” in 2022, the “Rhythm Nation” singer said that
“I was 50 when I had Eissa. They might say that is too old. I say bullcrap,” she said in the documentary. “It wasn’t easy. I kept on trying, you know, this injection, that injection. Doing this, going to a doctor in Italy, going to a doctor in Switzerland. It was a lot. I refused to give up and I have a beautiful, healthy boy because of it.”
Jackson made her future clear during the documentary, sharing that when thinking about what’s next for her, she said that she wanted to “concentrate on being a mother.”
While she doesn’t often share details about her son’s life, she gave about Eissa during a June 2022 interview with while discussing where she keeps all of her awards.
“I’ve never been that person to have my awards on display. There’s nothing wrong with it, that’s just not me,” she explained. “Being able to wake up and see my baby another day. The space I might be in at that moment within my soul. What I’ve accomplished within myself. How far I’ve come from that child there to the woman that I am today. That’s success.”
However, she did tell the publication that she is saving all of her awards for Eissa and is storing them in a warehouse until he is ready to take them.
Jackson explained, “I’m just saving them for my baby, whatever he wants to do with them.”
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