Just days before Mother's Day, a source confirms to ET that Janet Jackson is pregnant with her first child.
The baby news comes after the 49-year-old singer -- who will turn 50 on May 16 -- announced last month that she will be postponing her tour to start a family
with husband Wissam Al Mana. “We’re in the second leg of the tour and
there actually has been a sudden change,” Jackson explained in a video
posted to Twitter on April 6. “I thought it was important that you be
the first to know. My husband and I are planning our family, so I’m
going to have to delay the tour.”
“Please,
if you could try and understand that it’s important that I do this
now,” Jackson asked of her fans. “I have to rest up, doctor’s orders.
But I have not forgotten about you. I will continue the tour as soon as I
possibly can."
Jackson secretly wed Al Mana, 41, in 2012, but didn't confirm the news until early 2013. This is the singer’s third marriage.
In
2008, ET spoke with Jackson about whether she and her then-boyfriend,
Jermaine Dupri, would be open to having kids. "I would love to have
children of our own, but we also would love to adopt," she said. "So,
we'll see what happens. It'll happen someday."
When
ET correspondent Cojo gushed that she would "the greatest mother in the
world," Jackson responded, "Well, I hope so. People say that, but I
hope so."
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