{"id":257558,"date":"2016-10-12T14:56:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T14:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=257558"},"modified":"2016-10-12T14:56:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T14:56:29","slug":"singer-janet-jackson-confirms-she-is-expecting-first-child-aged-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=257558","title":{"rendered":"Singer Janet Jackson confirms she is expecting first child, aged 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Singer Janet Jackson has officially confirmed she is expecting her first child, at the age of 50.<\/p>\n<p>She told People magazine: &#8220;We thank God for our blessing&#8221;, and posed for a picture with her growing baby bump.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation about her pregnancy surfaced in April when she postponed her &#8216;Unbreakable&#8217; tour, saying she wanted to focus on planning a family with her husband, Wissam Al Mana.<\/p>\n<p>She was recently spotted in London shopping for baby essentials.<\/p>\n<p>The People magazine quoted a source close to the Jackson family as saying: &#8220;She is super excited about her pregnancy and is doing extremely well. She actually feels very good about everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a video posted on Twitter in April, she told her fans that she was postponing her world tour because &#8220;there&#8217;s been a sudden change&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought it was important that you be the first to know. My husband and I are planning our family,&#8221; she said, adding: &#8220;Please if you can try and understand that its important that I do this now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She went on to say: &#8220;I have to rest up, doctor&#8217;s orders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/DE19\/production\/_91775865_janetnew.jpg\" alt=\"Janet Jacket in a Twitter video\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><\/span><\/figure>\n<p>-Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Janet Jackson has officially confirmed she is expecting her first child, at the age of 50. She told People magazine: &#8220;We thank God for our blessing&#8221;, and posed for a picture with her growing baby bump. Speculation about her pregnancy surfaced in April when she postponed her &#8216;Unbreakable&#8217; tour, saying she wanted to focus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":257561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/257561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}