Paris Jackson didn’t hold back when she faced criticism regarding her tattoos, after a social media user remarked that they made her appear “dirty.”
The 28-year-old Paris fired back in the comments section of an Instagram post shared by E! News on Thursday, August 13. In response to a comment stating, “She is gorgeous, but those tattoos just make her look dirty and takes away from her look,” Paris expressed her thoughts.
“Oh no, whatever will I do 😰 (I’m dirty even without the tattoos),” quipped the daughter of the late pop legend Michael Jackson, showing her sharp wit.
The post spotlighted a segment from Paris’ Wednesday, August 12, appearance on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, hosted by Alex Cooper. During the interview, Paris candidly discussed her evolving relationship with her mother, Debbie Rowe.
Over the years following her father Michael Jackson’s passing, Paris Jackson has gradually forged a connection with her mother, Debbie Rowe. The iconic King of Pop wed Rowe in November 1996, which led to the birth of their son Prince and daughter Paris. After their split in 1999, Rowe relinquished her parental rights. Sadly, Michael passed away in June 2009, marking a pivotal moment in their lives.
Michael shared Paris and son Prince, 29, with Rowe before his untimely death in 2009, however, the singer largely raised the children alone. (The late pop star is also survived by son Bigi, 24, born via a surrogate.)
“I remember, you know, kind of asking about it when I was probably around, like, 10 or 11 and the answers I got were, you know, sufficient to me,” Paris said. “Just like, ‘Oh, what’s her name?’ I got told her name and I’m like, ‘All right, cool,’ like, [I] moved on.”
“We connected when I was about 15 and then really started getting closer towards the end of my teen years and things like that,” Paris recalled. “I remember coming downstairs and she was in the living room with my grandma. I came in and I was just like, ‘Hey, mom.’ And she was like, ‘Hi.’ I sat down, we talked for a second, and then we went out for the day and just hung out. She’s a [Sagittarius], so she’s got the fire, and I’m an Aries, so I got the fire. We’re very similar.”
Paris also opened up about being raised in the spotlight and the lengths her King of Pop went to in order to protect his children’s privacy.
Michael Jackson left more than an extensive musical legacy and his former estate of Neverland Ranch behind when he died at the age of 50 on June 25, 2009 — the King of Pop also had three children. Thank You! You have successfully subscribed. Subscribe to newsletters Enter your email Please enter a valid email. […]
“I knew he was famous. I just didn’t know how famous,” she said of Michael. “There was definitely part of me that, like, when I looked out my hotel window — and it was one of the times where, like, the alias didn’t work — and there’s just a sea of people with signs and stuff. I’m not so naive to think, ‘Yeah, everyone experiences this.’ I just didn’t understand the lengths.”
“I mean, it made sense because it was like, ‘Oh yeah, if you do this now, then you can go to Chuck-E-Cheese and be normal this weekend because no one will know who you are,’” Paris said of wearing masks in public when she was younger. “That made sense to me. … Spiders, loss [would scare me growing up]. I don’t know [if the public attention] was scary. I always felt, you know, protected. We always had security and, you know, sometimes crowds would get a little crazy, but there was still an adult you [could] grab on to.”