Paris Jackson has been a superstar her entire life despite being just 24 years old and the second daughter of iconic musician Michael Jackson.
Paris has been through a lot of hardships since her father’s death, but the talented young woman is currently pursuing her own singing career.
Despite the ups and downs of his life, he has now made the decision to talk about his upbringing with his father, known as the “King of Pop.”
Few people, if any, are unaware of Michael Jackson’s existence. I mean, they don’t call you the “King of Pop” for nothing, right? But as much as we love his music, the late singer’s life wasn’t easy. Michael Jackson can be considered a product, someone who was created from a very young age to be an artist and a vocalist. That won’t change the fact that his music, his dancing, and his songwriting are absolute masterpieces. The entire world mourned the musician when he passed away in 2009. He had spent virtually his entire life being hounded by paparazzi and tabloid media, and even when he was laid to rest for the last time he wasn’t exempt.
Several media helicopters followed the helicopters that brought his body from the hospital in Los Angeles. News about Michael Jackson and his family continues to spread around the world today.
These days, her family members get most of the attention. Her children, in particular, have been targeted, as the Jackson family is a popular target for paparazzi.
Paris Jackson, Jackson’s second daughter, has grown up in the public eye and is now doing everything she can to differentiate herself from Michael Jackson’s daughter and become her own person.
She has been suffering from mental illness for several years, but she is actually doing very well.
On April 3, 1998, in California, Paris Jackson, Michael Jackson’s only daughter and second son, was born.
She and her brother were home-schooled until the sixth grade, making their early years quite private. The children were carefully shielded from the public because Michael Jackson was willing to allow them to maintain their seclusion. Children in Michael’s family would wear costumes or have their heads wrapped in scarves to hide their faces in early photographs.
As a result, life at Neverland Ranch was extremely limited for Paris and her siblings. No one can deny that they were immensely wealthy, but it must have been difficult, too.
In a YouTube interview with supermodel Naomi Campbell, Paris Jackson talked about her father and what her upbringing was like.
He said Michael Jackson made sure they were “cultured.”
“My father made sure that we were cultured, that we were educated, and not just showing us the glitz and glamour, like five-star hotels,” Paris said.
“It was like we saw everything, too. We saw third world countries. We saw every part of the spectrum.”
Paris Jackson lived all over the world during her childhood, while her father traveled the globe to play in front of hundreds of thousands of people.
Paris says she was very grateful for having had a “privileged” childhood, but at the same time, she learned from a young age not to feel entitled to anything. Her father made sure the children understood the concept of working hard to achieve things.
“Even when we were kids, it was all about making money,” Paris said. “If we wanted five toys from FAO Schwarz or Toys ‘R’ Us, we had to read five books.
“It’s about earning it, not just being entitled to certain things or thinking ‘oh, I have it all,’” he added. “It’s like working for it, working hard for it, it’s a completely different thing, it’s an achievement.”
Paris was only 11 years old when her father died.
On June 25, 2009, “The King of Pop” suffered a cardiac arrest at his home and died shortly after being taken to a nearby hospital. Paris and her siblings were placed under the legal care of their grandmother, Katherine Jackson, according to Michael’s will.
During her father’s televised funeral, 11-year-old Paris stood up in front of the entire world to say a few words about her father.
“Since I was born, Dad has been the best father you could ever imagine,” she said. “And I just wanted to say that I love him so much.”
Paris and her brothers, Prince Michael, 12, and Prince Michael II, 7, were present during the televised memorial service. In fact, it was practically the first time the world got to see more than a glimpse of Jackson’s children.
Then, in January 2010, they were seen in public again while accepting a posthumous lifetime achievement award for their father at the 2010 Grammy Awards.
In November of the same year, Paris appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show to talk about her father, saying that he was amazing.
“I felt like nobody understood what a great father he was, he was the best cook in the world,” he told Winfrey. “He was just a normal dad.”
“She made the best French toast in the world,” Paris added.
When Michael Jackson passed away, Paris Jackson moved into a mansion in Calabasas, California, with her grandmother Katherine Jackson, as well as other members of her family, according to The Daily Mail.
When she turned 19, she decided to move into Michael Jackson’s private studio in the family compound, which she transformed into a dorm-style bedroom.
Losing a parent is hard, but for Paris it was much more than that. Suddenly, she was expected to carry on her father’s legacy.
“I tried to grow up too fast” When she started seventh grade, Paris decided to attend a private school. At the time, the only people who accepted her as she was were the older kids, and it didn’t turn out perfectly.
“I was doing a lot of things that a 13, 14, 15-year-old girl shouldn’t do. I tried to grow up too fast and I wasn’t a good person,” she told Rolling Stone.