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JANET AND HER NEW WASHBORD ABS GRACE ‘US WEEKLY’: Singer affirms the weight gain was for a role.
*Appearing next to the bold print “How I Got Thin,” Janet Jackson poses on the cover of next week’s “Us Weekly” in a pink half-shirt that exposes her fresh, new six-pack abs.
The famous Jackson sibling says she lost the 60 pounds she was asked to pack on for a role in the upcoming movie "Tennessee." Mariah Carey eventually snagged the lead in that film, but Janet was left holding the excess pounds.
"They (the producers) wanted to see me in a different light, as a heavier woman," the 5-foot-4, 40-year-old singer, who weighed about 180 pounds at her heaviest, tells the magazine in an issue on newsstands Friday.
"The timing didn't quite work with trying to finish my album, and unfortunately I wasn't able to do the film," she is quoted as saying. "So I found myself having to take this weight off a lot quicker than I had planned."
Jackson said she had a ball stuffing herself with whatever food she wanted. She says her thought process went a bit like: "'Ooh, that looks good, give me that whole slice of cake!' That was the fun part," she says. "(Eventually) I would look in the mirror and I wouldn't recognize myself."
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To get back in shape, Jackson said she spent the last four months eating "nice, balanced meals" and working out with a trainer. Her longtime boyfriend, music producer Jermaine Dupri, was a motivation.
"I've never had someone love me for me, so unconditionally, the way he does, regardless of my size," she says. "He was never any different toward me."
When asked about reaction to her plus-size body, Jackson says: "People didn't treat me differently to my face, but I'm sure they had their whispers behind my back. But I didn't feel bad about myself at all. It was part of my job."
"I feel good," she adds. "It wasn't until I saw a picture of myself, just recently, actually, that I thought, 'Wow, you really did lose a lot of weight!' For now, it's just nice for me to get back down to where I feel more comfortable with me."
Her upcoming album, "20 Years Old," is slated for release Sept. 26.
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