Janet Jackson Wanted Children for Years Before Getting Pregnant: ''If It's Meant to Be, It'll Happen''

Janet Jackson had said that if she was "really supposed to have kids, it will happen."
Well, it's happening!

The pop icon both saddened and delighted fans last month with the announcement that she was postponing her Unbreakable World Tour while she and husband Wissam Al Mana were busy "planning their family." But congratulations are most definitely in order, because a source now tells E! News that Jackson is pregnant with her first child.

And this is a blessed event that's been on her mind for some time—partly because people just couldn't stop asking her if she planned to have kids!

No one was the wiser when the "Escapade" artist married Al Mana in 2012, the couple not sharing the happy news until February of the following year, so it's not surprising that every step Jackson has taken toward starting a family has been a quiet one.

In an inexplicably successful feat of trickery, Jackson—a member of one of showbiz's most public families—has managed to remain private, almost an enigma, over the years, even when the world could talk about no one but her larger-than-life brother Michael Jackson, who died in 2009. She became downright elusive in recent years, largely thanks to her decision to live abroad with her Qatari-born hubby.

While the pregnancy news was pleasant enough to hear on our end, this is a moment that the 49-year-old star has always dreamed of.
Asked in September 2009 on the heels of her breakup with record producer Jermaine Dupri after seven years together whether she thought about having kids and her various options, she said, "sure," she'd consider adoption.
"And I think that if I'm really supposed to have kids, it will happen, if that's God's plan for me," she told Harpers Bazaar. Since she'd already contributed to the births of so many other babies, after all!

"I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces," she also told the magazine. "Happiness with my music. Also, to make babies. I've had so many people come up to me and say, 'My child was conceived by listening to your music.'"
That's the way love goes