MICHAEL JACKSON - JACKSON'S EX-WIFE 'FURIOUS' OVER PHOTOGRAPH OF KIDS

JACKSON'S EX-WIFE 'FURIOUS' OVER PHOTOGRAPH OF KIDS

The surrogate mother of pop superstar MICHAEL JACKSON's children is furious they have been pictured for the first time without their usual veil disguises. Debbie Rowe - who conceived ten-year-old Prince Michael I, and nine-year-old Paris through artificial insemination - was shocked last week (ends03Feb08) after photographs of her children unmasked and dressed in sneakers and baseball caps were published in newspapers around the world. And the 49-year-old - who divorced the Thriller hitmaker in 1999 after three years of marriage - insists the disguises are necessary to protect their offspring from kidnap threats. She says, "The veils were my idea, not Michael's. I had kidnap threats when they were babies. I did not want them to be recognised. I'm not happy they've been photographed without the veils."