FanMAIL: Janet Jackson’s Short Hair

Yesterday I confirmed that legendary pop singer Janet Jackson’s hair was thinning (most likely due to menopause or premenopausal symptoms).

But some readers begged to differ that Janet was losing her hair (although the photo evidence is stunningly clear).

Loyal reader Kyra T. sent this close up pic of Janet’s short hair. But the pic only proves my point that Janet’s hair is thinning in some places. That’s scalp that you see between the threads of hair still clinging to the sides of her head.

For the majority of women of a certain age, hair loss at the onset of menopause is normal. Usually hormone replacement therapy (HRT) will restore your lustrous locks. That’s if you don’t have a family history of cancer. In which case, most doctors won’t prescribe HRT for you. But there are many natural alternatives to HRT available.

Check back for my Medical Minute post on hair thinning and other symptoms of menopause that will affect most of you as you reach the twilight of your life.

Kyra T. writes:

Good morn’n Sandra,
Here are some better pic’s of Janet with short hair and she is not thinning, can you please open your enrollment.

Kind regards,

Kyra T.
HR Representative

Chgoprime

I like it…..
FloridaChick813

I’ve seen worse
pinksghetti

Some people are speculating that Janet has been wearing a lacefront all these years but I think that was her real hair. If it wasn’t it was a good one(s) and it looked natural. Certain celebrities need to take note on how to pick out natural looking ones.
pinksghetti

She looks cute to me though and I wonder if stress caused either hair loss or she just cut her hair.
Chgoprime

I agree Pinksghetti. She didn’t wear lace fronts. She had some of the best weaves I’ve seen, and also a decent length of her own hair….
OutsidetheBox

Sandra to be a nurse you know you wont act like it!

Hair is different just like everything else on a person! When you get older you hair thins. Plain and simple. You telling me you cut your hair just for a change? *side eye*

I have thick hair like you Sandra. I wish I could see my scalp.
pointhimout

sorry to disappoint you Sandra, but Janet is still, that chick. she can show up completely ball and be fierce than a mutha with it. if you look at concert footage when she’s sweating, the thinning of her hair is obvious. i saw a pic of janet post control years ago where her head was completely shaved with just a long piece hanging off her head. and yes, she rocked the hell out of it. she’s janet. what can i say.
crzasallgetout

I like her short hair…..that NOSE IS A NO NO
madame_zenobia

I think she’s been wearing tracks (glued and sewn) throughout the years in addition to wigs. Her hair is probably thinning; sure, it happens the older you get, as you’ve pointed out. But it also happens with stress and yeah stress due to styling, too. It doesn’t look bad. I’m just glad she lined the sides. Sometimes it’s good to just let your hair breathe too. This isn’t the best profile shot of her …
http://twitter.com/mrs_truth ms.truth

part of her nose fell off too???
Man, I just don’t care™

Sandra, it’s Thursday. Don’t forget to run a post featuring Lisa Raye.
http://charactercorner.blogspot.com attorneymom

Still looks good to me. Next.
pinksghetti

Chgoprime says:

I agree Pinksghetti. She didn’t wear lace fronts. She had some of the best weaves I’ve seen, and also a decent length of her own hair….

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It was very good weave if she had it. Her hair was pretty even when she was Penny on Good Times and on Different Strokes.
http://createspace.com/3393054 iscream

Sandra Wrote: For the majority of women of a certain age, hair loss at the onset of menopause is normal.

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Is that the reason you decided to cut off your hair….
chase

Go Janet!
Mother Jefferson

pointhimout says:

sorry to disappoint you Sandra, but Janet is still, that chick. she can show up completely ball and be fierce than a mutha with it. if you look at concert footage when she’s sweating, the thinning of her hair is obvious. i saw a pic of janet post control years ago where her head was completely shaved with just a long piece hanging off her head. and yes, she rocked the hell out of it. she’s janet. what can i say.
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Thank-you, Janet is still the baddest b*tch. She cut her hair off like this in the early 90s. She still looks better than most 44 year olds.
leapyearpisces

Between this pic of Janet and the Rosa Acosta pic, I am getting the strangest urge to snatch off the lace wig and run and go get the scissors and razors which NEVER happens…I like it…even with the thinning hair.

Sandra,

Thanks for the info on the natural altrnatives to HRT. I will need to google because I doubt I will be able to take HRT since I have a history of breast cancer [mother’s sister], ovarian cancer [maternal grandmother] and cervical cancer [dad’s mom] plus I have Fibrocystic Breast Disease
mzvirgo78

I just think that’s the TEXTURE of her hair. I think we call it “Good Hair”. Not necessarily thinning.
http://wecantbestopped.proboards.com BlkButterfly

A lot of people who have that grain of hair have thin hair.
Sexylenalove

Janet’s hair is not thinning. Her hair has been cut, lightly relaxed or texturized and gel added. It tends to make the hair look thin. Now Vivicia Fox is someone with hair issues.
qtipthecat

Her hair looks okay to me. Her profile she does look kind of older though. Like in her mouth. She still looks great to me for 44 though.
Redeemed777

@ATTORNEYMOM

What do you know about Trademark Office Actions for a particular logo based on it being ‘merely ornamental’?
SangriaSugar

I like it!!
Anna

mzvirgo78 says:

I just think that’s the TEXTURE of her hair. I think we call it “Good Hair”. Not necessarily thinning.

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Right. It looks like a fresh relaxer to me.
Al-Ameera

I only have to things to say….

1. It only looks thin around the edges but it has always looked like that but just longer

2. Ms. Truth please report to the freaking Kona!!!! Cuttin up!
aqtpie

It looks even better to ME in a close up pic! Get it JJ!!
Val

CUTE- hair is clearly over-rated
JANET CAN DO NO WRONG- I WONER IF SHE’S STILL WEARING THAT STAR BADGE NIPPLE THINGY ON HER TITAY STILL(?)
Lexus

Redeemed777 says:

@ATTORNEYMOM

What do you know about Trademark Office Actions for a particular logo based on it being ‘merely ornamental’?
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Not a dang thing. **attorneymom google’s Trademark Office Actions relentlessly for answer** I kid, I kid. Couldn’t resist.
Al-Ameera

I just read somewhere that Toya Carter aka Gumbo Baby is working on an album….

Man, will you please tell your girl Toya or Classy T as you would like to call her that just because you have had rappers in you doesn’t make you one! Geez what is wrong with folks?
OutsidetheBox

“just because you have had rappers in you doesn’t make you one!”

*falls to the floor in a heap*
pointhimout

toya, please stop it. you had an awful guest spot on a more awful track. stop it, i beg of you.
http://twitter.com/mrs_truth ms.truth

Al join me in and bring Lexus with you. I’ve already made room for yall.
Lexus

@ms.truth:

……what did I do
http://www.747DesignGroup.com ATL_Reese

Is it really that serious????? That whats happens when you get older, its called Life!
http://thecubiclechick.com STLVixen

I am loving these comments! Janet Damita Jo still looks fierce! It does lk a little thin to me, but upon closer inspection, it is gelled down and freshly texturized.

I remember when Design of a Decade came out in 1994/1995 and she was rocking a cute short cut then. Janet looks cute with short or long tresses. Work it bish!
http://twitter.com/mrs_truth ms.truth

@lexus, too late to be acting all innocent now. kona time!
Al-Ameera

It’s not my fault, the devil made me do it!

But why is she making an album? I just seen the need for some intervention
speakinmymind

she has a texturizer and some product in it…no thinning.

did yall hear Tony is divorcing DeShawn (RHOA)? i knew he was sick of her on the show.
http://twitter.com/mrs_truth ms.truth

@speak, I think you mean Eric?
Val

ms truth.. who is that in your gravatar?? did bey srum like that?? DAYUM
speakinmymind

yeah, Eric…that’s his name. the article i read stated that he filed for the divorce and is asking for joint custody.
http://twitter.com/mrs_truth ms.truth

@Val, that would be mrs. bey

@speak, yeah, ajc? I couldn’t believe it. I loved them as a couple!
Redeemed777

@LEXUS

Girl AttorneyMom gonna get-chu
pointhimout

marriages are meant to least for so long. we live in a different time. there’s too much available to us now where after a while, somebody aint happy. eric always seemed distant to me. she was his high school sweetheart, so clearly she had to know it wouldn’t last forever. money, new pu$$y and mo pu$$y.
Shauny

HEY ISC!!*waving*

Alrighty then, we are so clueless about the texture of our hair. Why does Janet have to have a texturizer or perm? Why can’t that just be the grade of her hair? Just like when Oprah’s hair just couldn’t be that long and real…not us black folk..no way…SMH. Do some research people. If many of you come off the creamy crack entirely, wash it with conditioner and put some gel, styling cream in your wet hair you will get the same result or better. NO CHEMICALS NEEDED

I use to think the same thing (my hair couldn’t be wavy/curly) until I got rid of the perm by chopped my own hair off and learned that it could. I think Janet has always rocked natural hair because her hair has been this texture since her Penny on Good Times days.
http://twitter.com/mrs_truth ms.truth

@Shauny, I was amazed at my hair too when I stopped with the creamy crack…I was like, oooo, I didn’t know I had “good hair”. Stylists always told me I had a good grade of hair, but I could never see it for myself.
Anna

says:

HEY ISC!!*waving*

Alrighty then, we are so clueless about the texture of our hair. Why does Janet have to have a texturizer or perm? Why can’t that just be the grade of her hair? Just like when Oprah’s hair just couldn’t be that long and real…not us black folk..no way…SMH. Do some research people. If many of you come off the creamy crack entirely, wash it with conditioner and put some gel, styling cream in your wet hair you will get the same result or better. NO CHEMICALS NEEDED

I use to think the same thing (my hair couldn’t be wavy/curly) until I got rid of the perm by chopped my own hair off and learned that it could. I think Janet has always rocked natural hair because her hair has been this texture since her Penny on Good Times days.
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There is something in her hair. She is 44 and don’t tell me that she is not covering the grey. I put a kiddy relaxer in my hair once a yr. I do color it 4 times a yr and the coloring helps keep my hair soft.
Al-Ameera

@ Shauny, I agree. Her hair has never been mad thick and it has always looked how it looks now but longer. If you watch the first Why Did I Get Married it looks the same just shoulder length. Also, I remember an interview with her around the Velvet Rope days and she said she wears her hair natural because it’s too fine to put chemicals in.
speakinmymind

have yall already talked about Nene’s new nose? i haven’t been on in a while…maybe i missed that dragging! lolol
omina-homina

i’mma be nice. but this isn’t the first time she’s had her hair short, or worn her natural texture, and wet look where her hair looks thin. in the 90s when she went short, and sported a natural wet wavy, she had the same kind of thinness. I just think its her silky hair texture, and the fact that she simply doesn’t have thick hair.

anyway, nice hair cut, but uhm….

yeah, i’ll leave it alone.
Anna

speakinmymind says:

have yall already talked about Nene’s new nose? i haven’t been on in a while…maybe i missed that dragging! lolol
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Someone did mention it. Why did NeNe say is was “contouring”. I googled RHOA and the first thing on there was “NeNe’s Nose Job”. How she going to say it’s contouring with todays technology? What’s her last name. She knows it’s not hard for something to get leaked to the press, plus it’s very noticable.
allwrightyden

Her hair is probably thinning because due to wearing weaves all of these year. We have to let our hair breathe! I’m just sayin!
MissGauzzz

@point… i hate to but what you said is true! marriage just doesn’t hold the same value that it did back in the day! personally i don’t know why folks bother. if something happens to my husband (dies) before me, i will NEVER get married again! wouldn’t even consider it…

anyway…janet can do no wrong! i’d love her if she were blind, cripple and crazy!
Shauny

@ms truth – wasn’t it just like DAYUM!! That’s how I felt (I just cut it off in Feb and now my sides are chin length and the back is just past my shoulders BUT because I do twist outs and wash and gos it still looks short. I don’t care though, I be rocking my natural looks…lol

@Al – EXACTLY! I actually first noticed that Janet was natural in a interview in the Pleasure Principle days. I’m like ohh Janet has “good hair”..SMH. Also, remember that video where she’s singing in the water with those grey contacts and had the wet and wavy weave. I’m like DANG her real hair blends in good with that weave but didn’t really think too much of it. I think it’s her 100% natural hair, always has been.
Shauny

oh Anna, yes of course she probably has color in it. I don’t think she has a relaxer or texturizer though.
mgrimesii

I Like it…. I wonder did she do it for the new movie she starts filming next month???
artistman999

I likes
Daisy

Hey shauny! *waves*

Miss Jackson if u nasty
MzTee

I like Janet’s hair. But, I’m a fan of short hair having worn dozens of short dos, even the same style as Janet’s, for years.

Janet’s hair may NOT be thinning. It could be hair loss or damage from wearing weaves for so many years. She could have been advised by a dermatologist and/or tricologist to stop wearing weaves and to wear her own hair to allow it to grow and become healthy again.
pinky2083

Looks like a fresh perm to me, no thinning.
http://createspace.com/3393054 iscream

Hey Shauny!!!!!!

#teamjackson
Candi Apple

I am real late but I saw an interview with Janet from a long time ago. She talked about weave and her hair. She said she gets her hair put in strand by strand. The hair was attached to each strand of her hair. She said it took hours and she hated getting it done. And she stated it was costly but she would only need to get it retouched every six month or so depending on if she was touring or not. When I saw the candid interview I searched high and low for this technique I found a few stylist who offered the weave and it cost $10,000-$20,000+ depending on the type of hair.
vetta

Cute style.
M_promp2

Ms. Truth. ur avatar is crazy funny.

Leave Janet alone ppl. Her hair looks great to me.
lourie

My bet is that Janet’s hair is thin due to the damage caused by years of wearing weave which stresses your hair folicles because of the weight of the weave constantly attached to your hair roots. Weave is a heavy weight being carried by your hair follicles for months or years on end. It’s no wonder that many of your natural hair follicles will weaken over time and eventually fail to grow back. That’s why I stopped wearing it years ago. Wigs are a healthier alternative. It appears that Monique and Vivica Fox have the same thinning due to weave problem.