Michael Jackson’s youngest son Blanket orders Chick-fil-A for lunch in LA … after sister Paris opened up about their unusual childhood
Blanket Jackson was seen ordering lunch at a Chick-fil-A in West Hills, California on Tuesday.
The 18-year-old son of the late Michael Jackson had his black locks down and sported facial hair as he was in the passenger seat of a black vehicle while speaking with a worker in the drive-thru.
Blanket, who was seven at the time his father died, earlier this year moved into a Calabasas mansion in an exclusive gated community that boasts celeb residents such as Dr. Dre and John Travolta.
Out and about: Blanket Jackson was seen ordering lunch at a Chick-fil-A in West Hills, California on Tuesday
His beloved grandmother Katherine Jackson lives close by at the Estates at the Oaks in the upscale California community where the Kardashians famously reside.
Blanket, whose older siblings are Prince 23 and Paris, 22, plunked down $2.6 million for the mansion.
Blanket did not have a mask on while he was in the vehicle, but wore one plenty growing up with his late dad, who had all three children wearing masks more than a decade ago in an effort to keep their identities private.
On her show Unfiltered: Paris Jackson & Gabriel Glenn, Paris discussed why the late Thriller singer was intent on keeping his kids’ faces covered.
Hungry: The 18-year-old son of the late Michael Jackson had his black locks down and sported facial hair as he was in the passenger seat of a black vehicle while speaking with a worker in the drive-thru
Flashback: Michael Jackson had all three of his children wearing masks more than a decade ago in an effort to keep their identities private
‘When [my dad] was young, he would be in the studio and he’d look outside and he’d see kids on the playground and he couldn’t do that; he didn’t want that for us, so we wore masks,’ she said. ‘It was nice.’
Paris said she ‘appreciated’ her father’s efforts, as it allowed she and her siblings to ‘go to Chuck E. Cheese and Circus Circus’ without getting mobbed by people.
She said that in contrast, since becoming a celebrity when she emerged in the limelight after her father’s June 25, 2009 death, she’s had ‘to accept the fact that I do not and probably will never have a private life.
Paris, pictured in June in LA, said she ‘appreciated’ her father’s efforts, as it allowed she and her siblings to ‘go to Chuck E. Cheese and Circus Circus’ without getting mobbed by people
‘For a long time I was just against letting the world in because I was just too scared to do it,’ said Paris, who’s performing in a band called The Soundflowers. ‘You see a kid grow up in the public eye, you forget that I am a human.
She continued: ‘I was against letting the world in because it wasn’t a choice. I wasn’t ready then. I feel like I’m ready now.’