Parade.com scored an interview with the legendary Janet Jackson who reveals a little more of her family life than in previous interviews. Parade really got Janet to open up more and show her human side. On growing up the youngest Jackson and getting dumped on by big sister LaToya:

“When my brothers were on the road, I’d be the one taking out the garbage because my sister La Toya would say to me, ‘Mother wants you to do this.’ I’d think, ‘I’m sure doing a lot of the chores all by myself’. When I’d ask Mother, ‘Do you want me to do this myself?’ She’d go, ‘No, baby, I said for both you and La Toya to do it.’ La Toya was putting all her chores on me!”

But unlike many black women in today’s society, Janet learned a very valuable lesson from her mom – cooking.

“After school, I’d come home and get in the kitchen and cook up a meal for myself. Because I was too little to reach the oven or the stove, I’d stand on top of a swivel chair, cut up onions, garlic, butter, chicken or a little steak and put it in foil and make it. We children worked and still went to school. Mother made sure we still had a little playtime.”

To read more of the interview, go here.

Janet’s listening party for her CD “Disclipine” is today at a private location in New York. I have a spy attending so I’ll give you the highlights from the party later.