http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051024/ap_on_en_mu/people_janet_jackson (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051024/ap_on_en_mu/people_janet_jackson)

NEW YORK - Janet Jackson and James DeBarge, who were briefly married in 1984, had a daughter together, DeBarge's brother Young DeBarge has claimed on a radio program.
Young DeBarge said the child, named Renee and now 18, has been living with Rebbie Jackson, Janet's oldest sister. His comments lent support to reports that have circulated for years claiming Janet has a "secret" daughter.

Jackson's publicist didn't immediately return a call from The Associated Press on Monday. The singer and James DeBarge were married for less than three months when she was just 18. The marriage was annulled a year later.

"James and the Jackson family kept everything real close, real tight," Young DeBarge said Friday on New York radio station WQHT, known as Hot 97. "They weren't very revealing about what the relationship was about."

"No one really knew how it was working out until things kind of surfaced," he said. He added, "There's no telling what (Janet Jackson) is telling her."
DeBarge said Renee "is a wonderful singer."

Jackson, 39, secretly married Rene Elizondo Jr. in 1991. They separated in 1999. She is now dating Jermaine Dupri.

Young DeBarge, 28, said he has recently finished an album.

I heard this rumor over the years, and today, it was brought up on the radio. Knowing how crazy things happen in this family, and the crazy stuff they do, it wouldn't surprise me.

I just made a post concerning this on another forum. If the child is now 18, that means she was born in 1987, around the time when "Let's Wait Awhile" and "The Pleasure Principle" were singles, and Janet was nowhere near pregnant in those videos.

I just made a post concerning this on another forum. If the child is now 18, that means she was born in 1987, around the time when "Let's Wait Awhile" and "The Pleasure Principle" were singles, and Janet was nowhere near pregnant in those videos.
The baby could have been born in early early 1987 and the videos made after that. Also, many woman, especially those in top shape, don't show until their 4th month. It's possible.

If it's true, I just don't know why she would keep it a secret or not want to raise her daughter herself. It seems unlikely. Even if Janet was willing, why would her husband go along with it. Too far-fetched.

The baby could have been born in early early 1987 and the videos made after that. Also, many woman, especially those in top shape, don't show until their 4th month. It's possible.


The thing is the songs I mentioned were the fifth and sixth singles/videos from that (Control) album. She did Nasty, When I Think of You, etc. in the second half of '86. (I was heavy into Janet at that time, so I just remember her timeline well). Plus she did a Grammy's performance early in 1987. If it's true, the daughter is definitely not 18. I was thinking maybe this person just gave the wrong age, but like you say, it's too far fetched to be believed no matter what.

a picture...I got this from a celebrity gossip site, so I'm not sure if it's really her.

http://cache.eonline.com/News/Photos/j/jackson.janet.031704.jpg http://cache.eonline.com/Images/white.space.gif http://cache.eonline.com/Images/white.space.gif Janet Jackson: Secret Mom?

by Joal Ryan
Oct 24, 2005, 5:15 PM PT

First comes love, then comes secret marriage, then comes secret baby.
According to a former brother-in-law of Janet Jackson (http://www.eonline.com/Facts/People/Bio/0,128,7714,00.html), that's how things worked during the pop star's hush-hush union to singer James DeBarge, with the couple producing, but never publicly acknowledging, a daughter.


(http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:smallwin_newsplayer%28%27/Includes/VideoPlayer/select2.jsp?theme=10&clipID=&adCat=mmgallery&seed=vp10%27%29;) The Jackson-DeBarge offspring was raised by Rebbie Jackson, the eldest and lowest-profile of the musically inclined siblings, Young DeBarge, a brother of James DeBarge, told New York City's WQHT-FM ("Hot 97") on Friday. His reputed niece, identified as Renee, is now 18, he claimed.
Jackson, 39, has not responded to Young DeBarge's statements, which is nothing new. The pop star is never in a rush to confirm or deny information about her off-stage life. It was years before she acknowledged that she'd been married to James DeBarge as a teen-ager; it wasn't until choreographer Rene Elizondo filed for divorce (http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,6556,00.html) that his relationship with Jackson was revealed to be of the husband-and-wife variety. Even today, there are whispers that record producer Jermaine Dupri (http://www.eonline.com/Facts/People/Bio/0,128,73158,00.html) is more than Jackson's boyfriend (http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,13819,00.html), and is, in fact, her third husband.
The secret baby story is one that has kicked around for years. Brian Oxman, an attorney for the Jackson family, said the version he heard had Jackson's record label urging the then-emerging star to keep the kid out of the picture. Since Oxman was in a position to ask if it was true, he said he did. "The answer is no way, no how," he said Monday. "From the sisters to the mother, every last one of them said it never happened."
Oxman said he believes the Jacksons, labeling the secret baby story an "urban legend."
By all accounts, Janet Jackson wed James DeBarge, of the family band DeBarge ("Rhythm of the Night"), in 1984, when the future Super Bowl flasher (http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,13400,00.html) was 18 and he was 21. The marriage was said to have ended in annulment in 1985.
Doing the math, a Jackson-DeBarge baby who was 18 in October 2005, would have to have been born in 1987, or possibly late 1986. Either way, the timeline means the child would have been born after the couple's reported breakup, and during Jackson's emergence as a superstar with her solo breakthrough, Control
Rebbie Jackson, 56, is the mother of three children with longtime husband Nathaniel Brown.
According to the U.K. entertainment Website, FemaleFirst, Janet Jackson told British Glamour last year that, thanks to her relationship with Dupri, she was contemplating having children.
"For the first time in my life," Jackson said.

Wow! maybe I'm playing the Sims too much, but she looks like the perfect blend between James and Janets DNA!:lol:

Wow! maybe I'm playing the Sims too much, but she looks like the perfect blend between James and Janets DNA!:lol:

:brent
Yay for another Sims 2 Addict!!!

Personally, I don't believe it.

I mean, it's not like a member of the Jackson family to keep secrets from the public...

;)

Who names their kid Young anyway? I mean, really.

Who names their kid Young anyway? I mean, really.
the same ones who name their kids, Apple, Dweezil, Zowie, Percival, Tallulah, etc.:lol:

:brent
Yay for another Sims 2 Addict!!!


A lil' too addicted, last night I dreamt I was a sims with a romance aspiration, you can imagine how racy that was :rotflmao:

I don't really believe what's going on. I read article saying that Young DeBarge is coming out with a new cd, so maybe it make sense for all these rumors about Janet's "daughter".

A lil' too addicted, last night I dreamt I was a sims with a romance aspiration, you can imagine how racy that was :rotflmao:

:rofl: :rofl:
So tell me, did this dream involve Don Lothario? LOL!

:rofl: :rofl:
So tell me, did this dream involve Don Lothario? LOL!


:lol: Several different sims! Unfortunately, I guess in dreams I still am not attracted to macho men.....sorry Don!:lol:

:lol: Several different sims! Unfortunately, I guess in dreams I still am not attracted to macho men.....sorry Don!:lol:

:lol: :lol: :lol: Please don't tell me it was Goopy! ;)

:lol: :lol: :lol: Please don't tell me it was Goopy! ;)


Oh Goopy is hot!:rolleyes: :lol:

Janet Jackson is 39, born in 1966. Her "daughter" is 18, which would mean she was born in 1987, 3 years after me, and I was born in 1984. Janet is 18 years older than me. Let's take a year (the year she would have been pregnant(nine or 10 months closer is a closer estimate) The girl is most likely not 18. People did say that Janet was pregnant during Fame(1984), and that was why she looked fat in some episodes, then coincidentally left the show, but I never really gave it any thought until now because only one website said this, but I am now thinking about it because more people are talking about the posssibility of her being a mom......:confused: But the girl is most likely not 18. The age doesn't add up.

::none of my business::