{"id":281542,"date":"2017-01-04T06:37:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T06:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=281542"},"modified":"2017-01-04T06:37:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T06:37:39","slug":"janet-jackson-50-gives-birth-to-a-boy-eissa-al-mana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=281542","title":{"rendered":"Janet Jackson, 50, gives birth to a boy, Eissa Al Mana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Singer Janet Jackson has at the age of 50 given birth to her first child, a baby boy, her publicist has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>A statement said the musician and her Qatari businessman husband, Wissam Al Mana, were &#8220;thrilled&#8221; to welcome the infant, Eissa Al Mana.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Janet had a stress-free healthy delivery and is resting comfortably,&#8221; the publicist added.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation about her pregnancy surfaced last April when she postponed her Unbreakable tour.<\/p>\n<p>She posted a video on Twitter at the time in which she told fans that she was postponing the tour because &#8220;there&#8217;s been a sudden change&#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.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/13DD5\/production\/_93256318_d8f1f56a-fc80-439a-af0d-31c6e6900f12.jpg\" alt=\"Janet Jackson performs on stage during her \" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><span class=\"story-image-copyright\">REUTERS<\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"media-caption__text\">Janet Jackson &#8211; seen here performing in London in 2011 &#8211; is far from the only famous face to give birth later in life<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;I thought it was important that you be the first to know,&#8221; she said, adding: &#8220;Please, if you can try and understand that it&#8217;s important that I do this now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said she wanted to focus on planning a family with her husband, whom she wed in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson had earlier been spotted in London shopping for baby essentials.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Janet Jackson has at the age of 50 given birth to her first child, a baby boy, her publicist has confirmed. A statement said the musician and her Qatari businessman husband, Wissam Al Mana, were &#8220;thrilled&#8221; to welcome the infant, Eissa Al Mana. &#8220;Janet had a stress-free healthy delivery and is resting comfortably,&#8221; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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-281542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281542","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=281542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}