Janet Jackson's Childhood Chest-Binding

Janet Jackson is the new spokesperson for NutriSystem. Yawn. But as was telling her story to Good Morning America, she divulged us with stories of her formative years — and the many insecurities that developed within them. Janet says her body issues stemmed from childhood, where her brother Michael would poke fun at her “big butt” — “names of endearment,” she clarified — and her first acting job on Good Times, which she began when she was only 10 years old. Jackson says that on her first season of the show, the good people in wardrobe felt her body was developing too soon and flattened her chest by binding it. The next season, they told her to lose weight. Ah, the life of a child star: something I wouldn’t wish upon anymore.