# Michael Jackson's Kids **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 7, 2019, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jacksons-kids/830697 "2019-03-07T15:28:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jacksons-kids/830697/1 "2019-03-07T15:28:45Z")
MJ has been in the news quite a bit lately because of the documentary regarding his sexual abuse of kids. Paris Jackson has said that she hasn’t made up her mind about what she thinks her father did or didn’t do. My question is - Has it ever been established that MJ is the biological father of his kids? If so, was it IVF? How were the mothers “chosen”? Maybe all of this has been out for years, but I just missed it! I was never a super-fan of his, I remember him as the little guy in the Jackson 5. My daughter was a kid during the Thriller era, so she was a huge fan. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jacksons-kids/830697/2 "2019-03-07T18:53:32Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > My question is - Has it ever been established that MJ is the biological father of his kids? If so, was it IVF? How were the mothers “chosen”? Maybe all of this has been out for years, but I just missed it! Lots of rumors and speculation, including an English actor who claimed to have been a sperm donor for Jackson (see the fourth paragraph in [the linked section of Paris Jackson’s Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Jackson#Personal_life)). As far as I can tell, nothing has ever been “established,” one way or the other, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the full story never sees the light of day. Debbie Rowe is the mother of the two older children; she was a nurse at Jackson’s dermitologist’s office, and met him there, where she allegedly proposed to Jackson that she bear children for him (at the time, he was married to Lisa Marie Presley). His youngest child was carried by a surrogate mother, whose name has, AFAICT, never been revealed. My guess would be that both Rowe and the unnamed surrogate received large settlements from Jackson in exchange for agreeing to never discuss the topic (or, in Rowe’s case, to hew to the public story). ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jacksons-kids/830697/3 "2019-03-07T21:32:09Z")
To be fair, they’ve been seen in public nowadays without the masks, and they do look quite a bit like him. ---
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jacksons-kids/830697/4 "2019-03-07T23:30:33Z")
It’s true that they do resemble him. Especially the youngest one. They are all good looking kids, but his daughter is gorgeous. I see photos of her in the press all the time, and she has striking blue eyes that do remind me of Debbie Rowe. The oldest boy has vitiligo, just as Michael did. Probably not a coincidence in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jacksons-kids/830697/5 "2019-03-07T23:37:08Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > To be fair, they’ve been seen in public nowadays without the masks, and they do look quite a bit like him. G-d help them. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jacksons-kids/830697/6 "2019-03-08T00:11:28Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > G-d help them. You know that plastic surgery isn’t hereditary, don’t you?😉 Of course, they don’t look anything like the surgically altered Jackson. They look pretty normal. I think the younger daughter in particular looks like Michael when he was a child. ---
**Author:** ![planetcory](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/planetcory/32/1032_2.png) [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jacksons-kids/830697/7 "2019-03-08T00:38:55Z")
See, I don’t think they look anything like him at all. The youngest one \*soooort \*of does if you squint. But those older two… not only is there no resemblance (imho), there’s no indication that they’re even biracial.