5 ft 4 in (162.6 cm)
A commonly listed height: it appears across many profiles, but none says when or how it was measured, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.
Janet Jackson is commonly listed at 5 ft 4 in (162.6 cm).
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Janet Jackson’s 5 ft 4 in (162.6 cm) is about average for a US woman: about 57 in 100 US women are shorter.
Janet Jackson is one of the shorter singers we have heights for: Peter Steele (6 ft 8 in) stands 1 ft 4 in (40.6 cm) taller and Édith Piaf (4 ft 8 in) is 8 in (20.6 cm) shorter.
Also listed at 5 ft 4 in: Karen Carpenter, Lil Uzi Vert and Britney Spears.
A commonly listed height: it appears across many profiles, but none says when or how it was measured, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.
Photo: Rich Esteban, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.
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