In her new documentary “Janet,” Janet Jackson says that her brother Michael Jackson used to tease her about her weight, which resulted in her being an emotional eater, according to the Daily Mail. “There were times when Mike used to tease me and call me names,” she said. ‘Pig, horse, slaughter hog, cow.’ He would laugh about it and I’d laugh too, but then there was somewhere down inside that it would hurt.” She added, “When you have somebody say you’re too heavy, it affects you.”
While Janet makes it no secret that those words still sting to this very day, she’s often been very open about her struggles with her health and body acceptance. Back in 2012, Janet told Prevention that she stopped worrying about her weight and what size her clothes were at the time. “Because I will continue to pick on myself, like all women do, and say, You need to [lose] more here, more there,” she said. However, she finally managed to let the self-flagellation go after decades of public scrutiny. “I honestly don’t even know what size I am,” she revealed. “Now it’s about looking in the mirror and saying, I feel good. I feel healthy.”
