JANET JACKSON IS THE NEW FACE OF NUTRISYSTEM!

Janet Jackson is in control.

The 45-year-old singer, now the new face for the Nutrisystem diet, told “Good Morning America” that her body image issues started when her brother, late pop idol Michael Jackson, teased her about her weight.

She wrote in her book “True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself” that her brother liked to makes jokes about “her butt being too big.”

“Being the baby of the family, you get teased,” she said. “I carried that through my adult life.”

Upon joining the cast of the 1970s comedy “Good Times,” the wardrobe woman told her that they would have to bind her chest because her bust was developing too rapidly.

The next season, she was told to lose weight.

She admitted that her yo-yoing weight was due to seeking comfort in ice cream, chips and cookies when she was feeling down.

“Sometimes even healthy food,” she said. “But too much.”

Jackson said that even when flaunting those enviable abdominal muscles on album covers and in videos, she still felt bad about how she looked.

“I could very easily pick myself apart,” she said. “That’s what I did.”

Her lifelong struggle with food and self-loathing has inspired her help others, she said, and is one of the reasons she chose to work with Nutrisystem.

“It’s a matter of maintenance and keeping the weight off,” she said. “My success plan was to feel good about myself and be healthy.”

Jackson admitted she’d been through an emotional year following the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray, the doctor recently found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death Michael Jackson.

“It’s been a great deal of happiness and a great deal of sadness,” she said.

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