Before I go anywhere, I LOVE Janet Jackson even with her Nipplegate scandal. She is extremely talented, beautiful (inside & out), and the most normal of all the Jacksons. She has worked hard, very hard to get where she is. Of late, the press was totally ragging on her for getting fat. She got up to 180lbs, and folks were blaming it on the stress from Nipplegate, a divorce from a marriage no one knew about, a failed album, and the circus that was her brother Michael's trial. The whole world thinks your brother is a pedophile. That's got to be stressful. She says the weight gain was for a movie role. With all that kind of stress, hell, almost everyone would seek food as comfort, and hide in rolls of fat. If it were me, I'd probably break the 200 lb mark.
So now, Janet is on the cover of US magazine practically naked, saying, "How I got thin." The first time I saw this cover, I gasped. I mean damn, she does look hot, and she has a six pack. AND, she just turned 40. She makes 40 look like a hot tamale with mucho caliente sauce. Can I get some?
Dropping 60 lbs in 4 months is quite a feat, and although I know it is possible through natural means when you have a trainer, a chef, and an assistant all helping you, part of me just doesn't buy this photo. You definitely know that there was photoshopping going on here, because ALL the magazines tweak the cover shots. How much photo manipulation went on is the big question. Also, I can't help but think that there was some lipo and maybe some diet pill popping going on too. Call me cynical, but I don't buy that this whole 4 month, 60 pound metamorphosis happened naturally. It's okay in my book if it didn't, just admit it.
