Michael Jackson’s children were banned from looking in mirrors

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Michael Jackson’s children were banned from looking in mirrors

1246970257sna30jakpp-280_836233a-200x2781 Michael Jackson’s kids were banned from looking in mirrors and had to throw away their toys every night for “sanitary reasons” and replace them the next morning, said Jackson’s friend J. Randy Taraborrelli.

Writing in a newspaper, Taborrelli, who was Michael Jackson’s confidant for 40 years, said that despite being obsessed with his own appearance, Jackson stopped his children looking in mirrors.

And when Jackson’s first child Prince was born, Jackson insisted the air quality in his room was checked once an hour, all the utensils had to be boiled and were all thrown away after a single use, and so were his toys, which were dumped and then all replaced the next morning.

Mother Debbie Rowe, meanwhile, was a surrogate who was rarely allowed to visit or care for her her two children, Prince and Paris. That job was left t a team of six nurses and six nannies who were kept under constant video surveillance.

Jackson bought Rowe a house as a gift in return for her “services”.

Taraborrelli added that most of Prince, Paris and Blanket’s friends were adults – members of Michael Jackson’s entourage – and they rarely played with other children.

Jackson insisted his kids wore masks while out in public to “protect them from kidnappers” but according to Taraborrelli, Jackson was “imposing his own fears on his children.”

“He may have put his children at risk of becoming antisocial, paranoid adults,” he said.

When TV interviewer Martin Bashir spent eight months living with Jackson for what turned out to be a not very flattering documentary, Bashir concluded: “’The children are restricted. They are over-protected.”

He branded Michael “broken, childish and self-obsessed”

Jackson himself seemed to acknowledge his children’s upbring was far from ideal. In a speech Jackson said: “I pray they [his children] will give me the benefit of the doubt. That they will say to themselves, our daddy did the best he could, given the unique circumstances he faced.”