{"id":118396,"date":"2024-09-10T21:01:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T21:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/09\/10\/janet-jackson-says-son-would-have-to-wait-til-he-is-18-if-he-wants-showbiz-career\/"},"modified":"2024-09-10T21:01:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T21:01:17","slug":"janet-jackson-says-son-would-have-to-wait-til-he-is-18-if-he-wants-showbiz-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/09\/10\/janet-jackson-says-son-would-have-to-wait-til-he-is-18-if-he-wants-showbiz-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Janet Jackson says son &#8220;would have to wait til he is 18&#8221; if he wants showbiz career"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-09-10\/Getty_JanetJackson_91024.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Photo by Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for Janet Jackson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Janet Jackson<\/strong> had an early start in the entertainment industry, but right now she has <em>Control<\/em> over 7-year-old son<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong>Eissa<\/strong>&#8216;s life. If he wants in, she says he not only needs to make the decision on his own, he has to meet her age requirement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s about him. If that\u2019s what he wants, but I would say that he has to wait until he\u2019s of age and still make sure that\u2019s what he wants to do,&#8221; Janet said on U.K. TV show <em>Loose Women<\/em>. &#8220;Whatever you do is very difficult. The industry is very tough, but he would have to wait till he is 18.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She adds she&#8217;s grateful that her father saw her talent and pushed her toward the same career paths as her brothers aka <strong>The Jackson 5<\/strong>, but notes there are some things she didn&#8217;t get the chance to experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy because he obviously saw something that I didn\u2019t, but I still wish I would\u2019ve experienced college. Or, I should say university. I always wanted to experience that,&#8221; Janet said. &#8220;I was just a baby when my brothers were successful, so that\u2019s all I\u2019ve ever really known.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Janet shares Eissa with ex-husband\u00a0<strong>Wissam Al Mana<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for Janet Jackson Janet Jackson had an early start in the entertainment industry, but right now she has Control over 7-year-old son\u00a0Eissa&#8216;s life. If he wants in, she says he not only needs to make the decision on his own, he has to meet her<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/09\/10\/janet-jackson-says-son-would-have-to-wait-til-he-is-18-if-he-wants-showbiz-career\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,430,428,429],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}