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Taipei, Feb. 18 (CNA) R&B diva Janet Jackson arrived in Taipei at around 4 p.m. Friday in preparation for her first-ever concert in Taiwan later the same day.
Jackson looked to be in high spirits when she arrived at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport. She waved to scores of screaming fans and took pictures of the scenes inside and outside the airport's arrival lounge and of reporters covering her arrival.
Jackson soon left the airport escorted by a security detail for a hotel in downtown Taipei where she will be staying during her visit.
She asked to stay at the hotel's presidential suite where her late brother Michael Jackson stayed during his two visits to Taiwan.
Singer-dancer Janet Jackson, 44, has molded her appearance with plastic surgery, extreme dieting and rigorous exercise.<!--googleoff: all-->
<!--googleon: all-->But now it’s time for the yo-yo dieting and plastic surgeries to stop, doctors say. Jackson is currently on the talk-show circuit promoting a new book, “True You,” and says that she has settled into a healthy routine.<!--googleoff: all-->
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<!-- end articleExtras --><!--googleon: all-->Radical weight loss and gains create unhealthy levels of stress on the body, medical experts agree.<!--googleoff: all-->
Janet Jackson, 44, appears on "Piers Morgan Tonight" to promote her new book. (Click photo for slide show.)<!--googleoff: all-->
Even cosmetic doctors urge Jackson to avoid further plastic surgeries. Her brother, Michael, failed to heed such advice. As a result, he turned himself into an object of mockery.<!--googleoff: all-->
<!--googleon: all-->The effects of Janet Jackson’s nose-narrowing surgery are apparent in the photos above. In addition, many plastic surgeons agree, she later got breast implants.<!--googleoff: all-->
<!--googleon: all-->In her book, she traces her unhappiness with her body back to 1979, when she was an 11-year-old with early-developing breasts on the TV show “Good Times.”<!--googleoff: all-->
<!--googleon: all-->She said, “Before production began, I was told two things: I was fat and needed to slim down, and because I was beginning to develop, I needed to bind my breasts. In both cases the message was devastating—my body was wrong. The message was also clear—to be successful, I had to change the way I looked.”<!--googleoff: all-->
<!--googleon: all-->Local cosmetic doctors aren’t impressed with the changes that her nose job made, but most say she’s looking good and should do nothing more, other than modest treatments such as skin care.<!--googleoff: all-->
<!--googleon: all-->Plastic surgeon Dr. Terry Dubrow of Newport Beach believes that Jackson may have benefited from modern cosmetic treatments, which have improved on earlier work that made her nose and breasts look fake. He said:<!--googleoff: all-->
“Janet Jackson is a great example of how plastic surgery has changed through the years. If you look at the earlier photos of her nose and breasts she has an artificial look to these areas. Now either through the natural relaxation of time or modern day revisions she looks beautiful and more natural consistent with how we do modern day procedures. The key today is to have no signs of having had surgery, which shes looking more like now.”<!--googleoff: all-->
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Plastic surgeon Dr. Val Lambros of Newport Beach said, “I think she looks great except for the nose.” If she were his patient, ” I’d tell her to do nothing and to stop being insecure,” he said.<!--googleoff: all-->
<!--googleon: all-->“Janet Jackson looks good!” said plastic surgeon Dr. Ed Domanskis of Newport Beach. “I am sure she is understandably very cautious of having cosmetic surgery on her face because of her brother Michael’s misadventures! I would recommend a non-surgical procedure like Thermage (i.e. radiofrequency waves) for her face and eye area to achieve some tightening in those areas.”<!--googleoff: all-->
<!--googleon: all-->Plastic surgeon Dr. John Di Saia of San Clemente and Orange said, “I think she’s had her eyes and nose done in addition to her breasts. Facially I’d leave her alone. Breast-wise I would need a better exam, but if her implants are silicone-gel-filled and older, an exchange would be reasonable plus or minus a lift.”<!--googleoff: all-->
<!--googleon: all-->Dermatologist Dr. Vince Afsahi of Tustin and Newport Beach said:<!--googleoff: all-->
“Janet Jackson has aged very gracefully. Her nose has been shaped but her overall appearance is quite natural. When looking at the photos of her at age 14 in comparison to age 44 we see how there is dramatic similarity, which is often the goal of any cosmetic procedure.<!--googleoff: all-->
<!--googleon: all-->“Looking at the softness of her laugh lines, one can think that this incredible genetics or fillers such as Juvederm or Restylane. The latter is more likely in someone her age.<!--googleoff: all-->
<!--googleon: all-->“My advice is get on a medical skin-care routine and keep looking natural. No major surgery or procedures! She looks great.”<!--googleoff: all-->
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Plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Persky of Encino said:<!--googleoff: all-->
“Janet Jackson has obviously had breast and nasal surgery, likely multiple of both. I would not recommend any further plastic surgery at this time. Skin care and non-invasive [laser-like] tightening treatments such as Pelleve, Thermage, Profecta, or Ulthera could be offered for maintenance.<!--googleoff: all-->
<!--googleon: all-->“As she ages and loses volume in her face, I would offer Sculptra [filler] to keep her face youthful.”<!--googleoff: all-->
<!--googleon: all-->“At this point, Janet would be given a printed sheet of music lyrics that I give to patients who don’t need anything — Bruno Mars, “(You Are Beautiful) Just the Way You Are.”
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Janet Jackson on Piers Morgan: Some Stars "Eat Kleenex" to Lose Weight
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On CNN's
Piers Morgan Tonight,
Janet Jackson talked at length about her constant struggle with self-esteem and body image. The interview, which aired on Tuesday evening, is a revealing look into Janet's past and coincides with the release of her new book
True You — part memoir, part advice book on dealing with the pressures surrounding body image.
Besides describing her own struggles with weight and body image, Janet gave a revealing look into the extreme lengths that celebrities endure to maintain their weight: "Some of the stories I hear . . . I'm not going to name names (but) this is the worst. Eating tissue, Kleenex, so it fills the stomach. So you're full. So you don't want another bite to eat and so that's what you eat."
Janet admits to only hearing the stories secondhand, but the idea of anyone eating tissue for weight loss is both shocking and sad. It's also a reminder of the unnecessary lengths many individuals put themselves through to look a certain way.
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Natalli Reznik, barre to bar and back
She thought she could dance, and the judges agreed with her.
At the end of the first season of
So You Think You Can Dance Canada, the lsrael-born, Toronto-raised Natalli Reznik stood in the winners’ circle, the fourth finalist of the competition’s Final Four.
Fondly remembered by fans for her astoundingly ripped 12-pack abs (six somehow doesn’t seem nearly enough) and willingness and uncanny ability to dance just about anything, Reznik joined her fellow first-season winners on the show’s cross-country Top Ten tour . . .
And shortly thereafter was back at her old job, serving up cocktails at the Queen Street West club, Ultra.
Such is the life of a dancer — and what makes
SYTYCD such compelling viewing. All that passion and pain, dedication and discipline, single-mindedly devoted to a potential career that is by definition short-lived and largely anonymous.
Winners of considerably less demanding TV singing competitions can at least aspire to a level of pop stardom.
The best a successful dancer can realistically aspire to is the opportunity to perform behind them.
That being said, it was not a lack of opportunity that brought the multi-talented Reznik back to the bar (as opposed to the barre).
She just felt the need to step back, as it were, and carefully consider the next phase of her career.
A career that has since had her strutting her stuff behind the likes of Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Black Eyed Peas, Alicia Keys, Rihanna, Enrique Iglesias, Kelly Rowland, Ne-Yo, Janet Jackson and, very nearly, the late Michael Jackson on his ill-fated final concert tour.
Reznik, who leaves next week to dance with Rihanna on her upcoming Australian tour, has otherwise essentially relocated to Los Angeles, where we caught up over cocktails — served by someone else — last month.
“After the (
SYTYCDC) tour,” she tells me, “there was a little bit of, I don’t know . . . You don’t know what’s going to happen. You don’t know what you’re going to do. Everything’s just a little off.
“So I took two months of just doing workshops and stuff, and then, in the summer, working back at the bar. And people would see me (there) and they would be, like, ‘Nat, what are you doing here?’ ”
“But it wasn’t like, ‘Oh my God, I’m not dancing anymore . . . ’ ”
It was instead a comfort zone in the midst of major life upheaval.
“I’m all about keeping it real,” she says. “And the bar made me happy. I was working with people and I’m very social and at the time I really needed that.”
She already had a stint with Cirque de Soleil and two years touring with Nelly Furtado to her credit, even before her
SYTYCD success. And the franchise has kept her busy, both here and in the U.S., as a choreographer and guest performer.
But it all kicked into overdrive when she got the call from
SYTYCD choreographer/judge turned nascent pop star Blake McGrath to dance in his debut video, “The Night.”
It was there that she met Janet Jackson’s world-renowned choreographer, Gil Duldulao.
“It was amazing,” Reznik gushes, “doing the video, learning the choreography, working with him . . . he has this way of telling you how to do things without really telling you how to do it, you know what I mean?
“We had this really wonderful relationship. It wasn’t any more just about the dance. It was . . . I felt like he cared for me.”
Apparently, he did, because shortly thereafter he went out and tracked her down.
“I really never thought I was going to see Gil again or speak to him,” Reznik confesses. “And then somehow he got me, he got my number, he contacted me and he asked if I wanted to do a video for Janet Jackson.
“I thought he was kidding. And he’s like, ‘No, I’m serious.’ And I didn’t know how to . . . I was like, ‘Are you crazy? Yes!!’ And after that we did the American Music Awards.”
But even before working with Janet, Reznik had a near-miss encounter with her brother, Michael. You may have heard of him.
That call came from director and master choreographer Kenny Ortega, who had been a guest judge on
SYTYCDC and remembered Natalli well. He invited her down to L.A. to try out for the tour.
“I’m usually so nervous about going to auditions,” she says, “but for this, for some reason, I knew I was going to be okay. I knew I just needed to go with the flow.
“First day I go in, I learn the routine. Second day is better, they start cutting people and cutting people, and they weren’t cutting me. The third day Michael’s assistant came to me and she said, ‘Nat, keep doing what you’re doing.’ ”
She got as far as alternate when the casting was completed. And then the unthinkable happened: Jackson was dead.
“I was back in Toronto,” Reznik remembers. “I was at the mall when I found out. I was shocked, for sure. But the dancers . . . I wasn’t at rehearsals with them, so for them, it was more of a loss. They spent time with him.
“I felt so sad for his family. You know, after that, working with Janet, I could feel the sadness and being in the room, you kind of want to come and see her and hug her and say something, but you don’t know what to say . . . we never talked about it, I didn’t feel it was my place. But I’m just proud of her.”
In L.A. of course, singular talent will only get you through the door. Once you’re inside, it is, as they say, less about what you know than who, and who they are in a position to introduce you to.
“I’ve never been much of a schmoozer,” Reznik admits. She was, however, very lucky in love.
“I met someone who was amazing, he’s my other half,” she says of her beau, Keith Richardson, a fashion designer who has crafted clothes for Jackson, and, among others, Lady Gaga — which, given what Gaga wears, is no small achievement.
It was through Richardson that she met Laurieann Gibson, Gaga’s visionary creative director and a fellow former Torontonian.
“I remember when I came into the rehearsal with Gaga, and Laurieann said to everyone, ‘Guys, be nice, she’s from Toronto, and that’s where I’m from, and Canadian dancers are nice.’ That made me feel good.”
Though not as good as it felt dancing “Poker Face” with Gaga at last year’s Grammys.
“She is truly inspiring,” Reznik says. “There is nothing she won’t try, nothing she won’t do. Bruises, blisters, doesn’t matter. She’s right in there, all the way, no matter what.”
It is a work ethic every dancer can relate to.
“I think that, as dancers, we always doubt ourselves,” Reznik allows. “Every job that I do, every little thing that I do, I always think, ‘This is it.’ I can never get too comfortable . . .
“But I’m slowly accepting my strengths and my flaws, accepting ‘me’ more and more, and just showing people who I am. If there’s things I need to change and work, I will.
“And if they like me, amazing.”
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http://www.thestar.com/article/941265--natalli-reznik-barre-to-bar-and-back
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Janet Jackson, 44, appears on "Piers Morgan Tonight" to promote her new book. (Click photo for slide show.)<!--googleoff: all-->
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True You is the story of learning to understand and work with her own internal cast of characters on the way to breaking free of the attitudes that brought her down. The book includes recipes and lifestyle-changing tips from nutritionist David Allen, who helped Janet Jackson reconnect with her spirit, heart and soul.
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