When Michael Jackson's marriage to Lisa Marie Presley collapsed in 1996, former nurse Debbie Rowe stepped forward and told him: "I will have your babies." The pair met 15 years earlier at a dermatology clinic where the late star was being treated for vitiligo, and when he opened up about his desperation to be a father, Debbie, now 61, put her hand up to help. "Michael was divorced, lonely and wanted children," she said. "I offered him my womb, it was a gift.
It was something I did to keep him happy." According to Debbie, Jackson readily accepted and when his divorce from Lisa was signed off, they married in Sydney - 23 years ago today - while Debbie was already pregnant with first-born Prince, 23.
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