Michael Jackson's Children

Officially, yes.

Officially Yes, but I read patr of an interview with Debbie Rowe yesterday where she had sad the children were the result of a sperm donor. Here are some pictures of Michael and the children - no matter if they are his biologically or not, they are gorgeous children who must be going through hell right now http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1196220/Revealed-Intimate-pictures-Michael-Jacksons-family-album-seen-time.html

I seriously doubt it considering they're white, not mixed race.

In some of those pictures I think his daughter looks like she could be. It doesn't really matter though - they have still lost their father.

Apparently the strong rumour is that Macauley Culkin was the sperm donor - but who know what is true or not where Jackson is concerned.

What Boob said, I was going to start a thread about this. I've been thinking this all along. Surely if he was the natural father then they should be half cast? Either way though, yes the children have still lost their father. But, you don't have to be the biological father to be a good father IYSWIM.

You've got to wonder what sort of a start to life they have had. Well i'm wondering what sort of a start they've had. I should imagine MJ would have tried to make things as normal as possible but what's his version of normal?

It's something we will never know. In recent pictures I do think they look like him. It's possible for mixed race children to take on one parents looks, my friends nephew has blue eyes and is very pale, the mother is very dark but I imagine this is rare and would be even rarer in 3 children?

Whatever the parentage I just hope the children know and Debbie Rowe isn't now causing them more pain by letting it out that it was a sperm donor. As others have said he was their father biological or not.

WBS

They might be his legally but I find it very hard to believe they're his genetically and that a black man could father children via 3 singleton pregnancies (regardless of the mother's race) that appear to have absolutely no black physical traits whatsoever.

And why the fuck would you bleach a young child's hair like that?

As I said the other day, tragic for such young kids to lose their dad and hopefully they might now stand a chance of a normal upbringing, but sadly given the rest of the family also appears to be full of weirdos I doubt it.

I'm not saying its the case but that isn't always an indicator - I know a family and the children are white but the parents are mixed race.

He was their Dad & that will always be.

I just wondered & have have done over the years, if he is the biological Father. From the limited photos ever published the Children do not resemble the Jackson family at all & although I know it's possible to have pale skin in a mixed race child it's odd that all 3 are what appears white. I know that the 1st born did have his hair dyed for many years, so it was blond.

People of mixed race are not always dark skinned, they can be olive skinned as Jackson's children are or white. A friend of mine is black (not mixed race), his sisters and brothers are all dark sinned but he has olive skin, no one believes him when he tells them he is black.

The last photos I saw in the press of MJs children I did think they looked like him. But who knows.

Oh, and can we not use the phrase 'halfe caste', it's horrid.

I kind of don't get the "they can now have a normal life" thing (I know you haven't said this but your post has prompted me to recall it from the other day). I have no idea what a "normal" life is. I also very much doubt that even 20% of what we read is even true. I know any celebrity child is going to have a life very different to the average kid but for all the negatives they also gain an awful lot, the best education being one. I think I'd rather have been Micheal Jacksons child than Tom Cruises growing up in a life of Scientology ?

I am sure we'll hear a lot more about them in the coming years, especially as they grow older and I would imagine at least one will follow a musical career but I just very much doubt they were abused by him or harmed in any way and beyond that I don't see what's so wrong.

Of MJ recently or MJ pre surgery?

I wasn't even thinking of abuse or anything like that Pooch, I just meant in terms of the kind of life he led and the children being part of that.

Pre surgery, his eldest son in particular.

Either way, I don't think it matters. They've lost their dad and as Pooch says, they're never going to have a normal life.

I did too - but then realised I was looking at him as he was now after considerable amounts of plastic surgery, not as he actually would have been / was without surgery. They look nothing like him at a comparable age.

I think there is a slight resembelance between MJ and the two boys (their eyes and especially the younger the one), but the girl not at all.

From the photos on the horrid DM, I have definitely seen him in a better light. He looks like a capable father.

WSS.

There a similar thread to this recently and the children did indeed look darker-skinned in a photo in that thread. I'd also like to point out that Michael Jackson himself wasn't particularly dark-skinned (even pre-surgery/illness) so it's even less likely that the children would be dark. My niece is mixed race, her mum has skin the colour of milk and her dad has skin the colour of coffee beans. Niece looks mediterranean because her skin is only lightly tan and her features are very caucasian. Genetics can be very odd and children often don't look how you might imagine they should.

I don't disagree, but 3 times, as a result of 3 pregnancies, and to a black man who quite obviously didn't want to be black and had done all he could to make sure he didn't look black any more....what would the odds of that be?

I'm trying to work out if they even look like Debbie Rowe? Is she the mother of the older two and not the third?

I do agree actually, it's just that he was so light-skinned himself (for a black man) I do wonder if it's not that odd that all three children would be light-skinned. I would definitely say that none of the children are very fair, they're all quite olive-skinned. It's harder to explain the fact that they all look caucasian in terms of facial features though. If I'm honest my first thoughts were to wonder if they were really his, I was just thinking aloud really.

Yes

But he wasn't light skinned, was he? Before his illness / surgery / whatever made his skin completely white.

I agree it's irrelevent in terms of their relationship with him, however.

Much much lighter skin than a lot of Africans imo.

I just fear they are going to be in for a pretty bumpy ride. I think MJ protected them a lot from the media circus that surrounded him and now he's not around I wonder who will take that on. I also think there's going to be people crawling out of the woodwork, claiming to be the "parents" and wanting a bit of the remaining cash. I mean look at all the furore that surrounded Anna Nicole Smith's baby and she wasn't even in the same league of stardom.

I worry that the publics thirst for information will make it a pretty horrible life for the kids and that's without people wanting to get their hands on his money. That's why I don't think it matters even if they are adopted, it should all be left alone for their sake.

I think it is impossible to tell - a lot of Motown artists often worn make-up to lighten their skin tone in order to broaden their "acceptability".

I never knew that! In which case I stand corrected.

that'll be me then <shudders in distaste>

thanks for doing the PC patrol HH ?

I read that but MC was only born in 1980 and I think the oldest is 12?... surely no one would use a 16 year olds sperm? I've looked at a lot of their pics and they do look mixed race. Paris looks like her mum, prince has similar features to MJ, little one looks very mixed race. I do wonder if he 'designed' his babies to look more white (in the same way genetics are used to get a donor match for a sibling, he has money I'm sure anything is possible) - probably to look more like him now than when he was younger as he had a skin condition that turned him white - he bleached his skin to even it out. I dont think he had a problem with being black - there's more to it than the colour of his skin. Even if he did, when you read about the racism he faced at the beguinning of his career it is no wonder it messed with his head.

Whatever their biological paternity, he was their father and by all reports a very good one. I've watched a few vids of him with them on youtube and Paris especially clearly adores him. I hope they are getting the love and support they need at this terrible time.

I thought they all were and I thought from looking at the pictures that all 3 children look olive skinned. Like someone else said, these children have lost their father, the one real parent they had.

Of course you cannot believe everything you read but I was amazed to hear that Debbie Rowe was the one who insisted they wore those stupid masks constantly. She apparently was 'horrified" that they were recently shown without them and was upset at MJ for making them vulnerable.

Sorry but I think constantly wearing a mask when outside must make the children feel like a freakshow.