Pop singer Janet Jackson, whose fluctuating weight has fascinated the tabloids for years, is co-writing a book about her journey as an “emotional eater.”

A title and publication details are expected to be announced soon, but Jackson hopes to have the book out by the end of the year. She is collaborating on the project with her nutritionist, David Allen, she told Billboard.com.

“It’s not just this sterile, weight loss and how to do it book, but my journey even from when I was a kid … being an emotional eater,” said Jackson, who is 41.

“It takes you through those moments in my life up ’til now and what worked for me. And hopefully within that, if it doesn’t work for them, maybe they’ll find something that does work for them and a nice place for them to be content with who they are.”

Jackson, who said last month on CNN’s “Larry King Live” that she liked French fries, sweets, caramel and candy apples, reportedly put on 60 pounds in 2006. She currently occupies the No. 1 spot on the U.S. pop album chart with her latest release, “Discipline.”

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Janet Jackson was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles “late last night with a shortness of breath,” a source tells Usmagazine.com.

But her rep tells Us this morning, “Janet is fine. She’s just battling this flu like everyone else.”

Jackson’s latest album Discipline is No. 1 on Billboard’s Top 200.

Jackson, 41, who plans to tour later this year, also is co-writing a dieting book, expected to hit shelves by the end of the year.

“It takes you through those moments in my life up ’til now and what worked for me,” she recently told Billboard.com.

“And hopefully within that, if it doesn’t work for them, maybe they’ll find something that does work for them and a nice place for them to be content with who they are.”

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“I’m not saying it’s right, but the music business has always been about sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll.” Janet Jackson was surprised Natalie Cole criticized Grammy voters for setting a bad example to young stars by handing troubled Amy Winehouse five awards.

I didn’t really think that Natalie Cole had any room to talk, considering her drug past.

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Janet Jackson is preparing to make music producer Jermaine Dupri her third husband, according to reports.

Sources say that he has proposed to her and she has accepted, and the couple is secretly planning a wedding ceremony. Reportedly, she’s looking at dress designs and both parties are drawing a prenup.

This news comes just a week after she claimed that she may never walk down the aisle again, saying that she’s allergic to marriage.

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Janet Jackson doesn’t blame the backlash from her wardrobe malfunction at the 2004 Superbowl for her bad album sales. She says simply, the CDs just weren’t that good.

Both Damita Jo and Janet were flops. Many people in the music business attributed her poor sales to her “wardrobe malfunction.”

“Ms. Jackson” disagrees. “I think it was the music,” she said when we talked about her upcoming album debut on Island DefJam, “Discipline.”

“The albums weren’t right,” she added.

The first track from “Discipline,” titled “Feedback,” was used as radio bait. The rest of “Discipline” — due on Feb. 26 — should undo the damage of her previous two outings, according to Jackson and her fiancé, Jermaine Dupri, who’s her main producer.

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