The story of Janet Jackson

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A “Queen of Pop” and heir to a legendary music family, she showed that women could be unapologetically sexual ... Until “Nipplegate” at the 2004 Super Bowl. A famously private person, she tells her story in a new documentary.   This is Janet Jackson.

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00:00Do you think of yourself as a singer or an actor first?

00:05That's really hard because I actually got my recording contract when I was 14, but I first started acting when I was 10.

00:30The idea was to make social consciousness with dance music. My dream was to affect people in a positive way.

00:38Do you think of yourself as an actor or an actress first?

01:08That wasn't the best way.

01:18This is our little sister Janet Jackson.

01:21Okay, go.

01:38What do you write about?

01:53What's in my heart.

01:55What's that?

01:57A lot of people don't remember Janet was acting before she became a big singer.

02:02So it's just common sense that says that's something that hasn't left her. She's a natural performer.

02:22One, two, three.

02:24We love Janet!

02:26Superstar Janet Jackson.

02:29She's cheeky, sexy, passionate, raunchy.

02:32She is the queen of pop.

02:47I consider myself a very private person who feels that the war on AIDS must be made public.

02:56We all know that there are treatments for HIV, but there isn't a cure.

03:03There is great, great work ahead.

03:25What people don't understand is he was to take and rip the piece off that he did.

03:38The letter piece.

03:40Right, but more came off than what was supposed to.

03:55We're in the second leg of the tour and there actually has been a sudden change.

04:21and there actually has been a sudden change.

04:24I thought it was important that you be the first to know.

04:28My husband and I are planning our family,

04:32so I'm going to have to delay the tour.

04:51Never in a million years did I expect to follow in their footsteps.

05:00Tonight, your baby sister has made it.

05:21More so than being afraid, it was really trying to figure out what to put in and what not to put in,

05:31because how can you document your life, tell your story in four hours?

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