Janet, the youngest of the famous Jackson family, lived
with Michael Jackson, Randy and
their six other siblings in the two-bedroom, one-story home at 2300 Jackson
Street in Gary when the clan were children. The family moved out of the home
when Janet was about 2 or 3 years old, she said.
“The last time I was here I was 8 years old,” Janet
said.
Forty-three years after she was last in her hometown
of Gary, Indiana, Janet Jackson
returned for the first time to the tiny white-sided house she and the rest of
her famous family called home.
Accompanied by brother Randy
Jackson, Janet, 51, made the trip to Gary after a stop on her State of
the World tour at the Allstate Arena near Chicago.
“When I saw the house … I just started crying,” she
said Friday, according to the Northwest
Indiana Times. “Me and my family are so blessed. I’m so
thankful.”
Janet also stopped at the former Roosevelt High School
(now named Theodore Roosevelt College and Career Academy), where her brother
Jackie and sister Rebbie attended, and told students gathered for the visit she
felt grateful to have been able to have a child at age 50.
“Every doctor told me it wasn’t possible,” she told
students, according to the Northwest
Times. “But I’ve got a beautiful, healthy son. He’ll be 10 months old.”
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