Janet Jackson
Sheryl Garratt, Grazia, August 2006
THE FAMILY RESEMBLANCE is unmistakable. With her high cheekbones and big brown eyes, Janet Jackson looks eerily like her brother Michael before he began his strange, sad transformation. She sounds like him too, talking in the same, slightly high-pitched Indiana accent. But what I notice first when I meet up with Janet in a London hotel is how normal she is.
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