Debbie Rowe was born in the Washington city of Spokane in 1958, four months after Michael Jackson, in fact. Her father divorced her mother just before her second birthday, so Rowe was raised by her mother, her grandmother, and a few aunts (via TheFamousPeople).
Rowe first met Jackson in the 1980s, when she was working as a dermatology assistant, and treating Jackson's vitiligo. Building a rapport, the two became friends, and Jackson would often send Rowe gifts and autographed merchandise. According to her friend Tanya Boyd (via Smooth Radio), Rowe would say, "If people knew him like I knew him, they would not think he was strange. He's unique, kinky, actually."
While friends, Jackson was married to his first wife Lisa Marie Presley, and in turn Rowe was married to her first husband, Richard Edelman. The two would confide in each other about their unhappy marriages, and Rowe even offered to give birth to a child for Jackson, after Presley wasn't willing to bear any children. Then, just after Jackson and Presley eventually separated, Rowe had a miscarriage. Concerned that she wouldn't be able to have children, she was comforted by Jackson throughout her grieving process (via The Sun).
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