Michael Jackson was famed for his controversial private life and incredible music. His children – Prince, Paris and Blanket – were thrust into the limelight thanks to their dad’s fame, and were given the unenviable task of carrying on the family name after his death. Paris is the only daughter of Michael – but what is she like now?
Paris Jackson has done few interviews, but fans can get an idea about what the King of Pop’s daughter is like.
Her brother, Prince, described his sister in 2017, when she gave some of her early interviews as an 18-year-old with Rolling Stone.
Prince said: “Basically, as a person, she is who my dad is.
“The only thing that’s different would be her age and her gender.”
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He added how they were similar “in all of her strengths, and almost all of her weaknesses as well.
“She’s very passionate. She is very emotional to the point where she can let emotion cloud her judgement.”
As a teenager, Paris struggled with depression and low self-esteem, which led her to make multiple attempts to take her own life, the last of which left her hospitalised.
Speaking about this, she said: “It was just self-hatred, low self-esteem, thinking that I couldn’t do anything right, not thinking I was worthy of living anymore.”
She entered a residential therapy programme and a therapeutic school in Utah, where she completed high school, about which she said: “It was great for me.
“I’m a completely different person. I was crazy. I was actually crazy.
“I was going through a lot of, like, teen angst. And I was also dealing with my depression and my anxiety without any help.”
For Paris, some of the things which have helped her move past self-esteem issues include modelling, which she does as well as music and acting.
She said: “I’ve had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time.
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“Plenty of people think I’m ugly, and plenty of people don’t. But there’s a moment when I’m modelling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer’s telling me – and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it’s selfish.”
She has since spoken about the way music has helped her, and is now in a band with her life and musical partner Gabriel Glenn.
On her Instagram page, she calls herself a “musician, lightworker, treehugger, activist.”
She also calls on her fans to “give peace a chance,” while sharing a message of “power to the people, stick it to the man.”
She shared quotes from John Lennon, as well as images which focus on the natural world, consciousness and other philosophical ideals which align with the hippie movement of the 1960s and 1970s.