Janet Jackson gushed over the “beautiful impact” her son Eissa Al Mana has made on her life. “The most important thing I’ve done, the biggest thing I’ve done, is become a mother, and it’s had a beautiful impact on my life,” Jackson, 58, said of her 7-year-old son in an interview with The Guardian published on Saturday, September 21. “I wanted to have three children, but thought, ‘I should stop there, that’s probably all I can handle.
’ Because you have to give all of yourself,” she explained. ”Obviously, you have to work, but you don’t come first anymore. Your life completely changes.
And I wouldn’t trade it for anything.” Jackson made her TV debut in 1975 on The Carol Burnett Show where she sang a duet with brother Randy . At the time, she was about the same age as her son is now, but Jackson was adamant that Eissa would have a “completely different” childhood than she did “because I worked and he doesn’t.
And that’s it.” “I want him to experience being a child because you don’t get to do this over,” Jackson continued. “You’re an adult for the rest of your life, so I want him to enjoy each and every minute of being a child.
” Jackson even revealed in August 2019 that she hadn’t used a nanny for Eissa since his birth in 2017. “It is hard being a working mother,” the singer told Daily Telegraph’s Stellar magazine at the time. “I don’t have a nanny, I do it all myself.
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