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27th January 2022
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“And back then, you could pick up weight taking them, and that’s what happened to me, so that rumour started going around.”
But the rumour grew more "ridiculous" when fans and even Janet's co-stars on set became convinced she had given birth to a baby girl and handed her over to family.
“First they were saying my niece Brandi was my daughter and that I gave her to my brother Jackie to raise,” the hitmaker said. “And then because my brother Randy’s daughter looks so much like me, they started saying it was Stevanna.”
The rumours suggested she had given her baby to her brother to raise in a bid to hide her huge secret from James, who she was married to for just one year after tying the knot in September 1984.
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"I could never keep a child away from James. How could I keep a child from their father? I could never do that. That’s not right," she insisted in the documentary.
James himself previously weighed in, making headlines when he declared he believed the rumours to be true in 2016.
“I was under the impression that there was no baby, and I wanted to believe it’s not true. But it is,” he told his daughter Kristinia DeBarge on an episode of Growing Up Hip Hop.
Though Janet still denies having had a secret child in the 80s, she became a mother in 2017 when she and her fifth husband, billionaire businessman Wissam Al Mana, welcomed their son Eissa.Explore more on these topics: