Paris Jackson captivated the world with her tribute at Michael Jackson’s memorial Tuesday, but her own life is as weird as it is enchanting. The Mirror takes a look at Jackson’s middle child, starting from the moment he “snatched her and just went home with all the placenta and everything all over her,” as Jackson once said, a girl who wore a maroon uniform but never went to school, shared a room with her brothers, and went on private shopping sprees at 2am, adds the New York Post.
Paris and her brothers dealt with Jackson's range of neuroses, but Jackson was a doting father who asked the Pope to christen Paris (the Vatican declined). A magician who once met them calls Paris “talkative, chirping around the house,” and Jackson’s friend says the children cried if Michael left for even a short time, even if he was just walking into another room: "He was father, mother, and friend to them." (More Michael Jackson stories.)