True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself by Janet JacksonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Finally, mysteries of the ages answered!!
Happy birthday to Janet Jackson today, May 16, 2012, who turns fogh-koff!-koff!-years-old :) today!! -- Anyway, I finished reading her book a few months ago. It came out with very little fanfare early last year. The book is autobiographical without actually being an autobiography. The bookstore that I bought it from was so focused on the self-help aspects of the book, they had all six of their copies in the self-help section -- not a one in the music section (which also explains why they had SIX COPIES; when's the last time you saw a bookstore have six copies of anything??). Anyway, the book does address some longstanding questions -- albeit twenty years too late--! When Janet was on "Fame" and suddenly gained all that weight (and they started putting her in overalls!) and there were rumors that she was pregnant and later gave the baby away for adoption -- good grief! Actually and ironically, everyone was so nervous about Janet becoming pregnant by new-but-later-annulled husband James DeBarge that she started taking birth control pills--a side effect of which was the weight gain (and here I have FELT JANET'S PAIN)! Janet explained that she's written this book for over a decade, in fits and starts. And it kind of reads like that. Also, I suspect the book might have been semi-quashed because Janet does go into her yo-yoing weight through the years and talks about how she lost the weight this last time -- but it's due to a pricey doctor's center, not Nutrisystem...
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