RHONY’s Jessel Taank thought Michael Jackson was her father

The Real Housewives of New York City star Jessel Taank had a pretty wild theory about her parents and Michael Jackson growing up.

“As a child I thought that Michael Jackson was my real father and that my parents had kidnapped me from him,” says 43-year-old Taank exclusively We weekly’25 things you don’t know about me.

With age comes wisdom, so Taank eventually found out that the singer was not her father. Now she considers herself “strangely intuitive and extremely spiritual” – both common traits of Scorpios.

“I have been consulting an astrologer since I was 15,” she says Us.

Taank is driven to succeed and her success is not about what the stars say. She manifests her goals. “I am the self-proclaimed queen of manifesting and have turned it into a science,” says Taank Us. “Whatever I want, I visualize it every day and want to make it happen – it hasn’t let me down yet.”

Her next venture Taank is manifesting is her own e-commerce platform, Oushqwhich will be launched this fall.

Scroll down to read 25 things fans might not know about Taank:

1. I was strangely obsessed with it Sweet Valley High — [both] the books and the show.

2. I can’t tolerate coriander: the smell, the taste, the texture. It is often used in Indian cooking, and as a child I would throw a tantrum if it was in my food. My mother thought she outsmarted me by incorporating it into her cooking, but I was so sensitive to it. I knew it was there and refused to eat it.

3. I had a private Japanese teacher growing up and can converse in Japanese.

4. As a child, I thought Michael Jackson was my real father and that my parents kidnapped me from him.

5. I tell everyone what my favorite movie is The Shawshank Redemptionbut really, it is Ignorant.

6. We were big fans of the WWF/WWE, and I still know the names and finishing moves of all the wrestlers, for example the British Bulldog’s Running Powerslam.

7. My celebrity crush growing up was Joshua Jacksonalso known as Pacey from Dawson’s Creek.

8. I am the self-proclaimed queen of manifesting and have it down to a science. Whatever I want, I visualize it every day and want to make it happen – it hasn’t let me down yet.

9. I kept a diary during my teenage years and had written in 1995: “live in New York, work in fashion and have twins.”

10. My guilty pleasure is McDonald’s chicken nuggets with barbecue sauce.

11. I know the words to almost every Bollywood song and am a Bollywood lover.

12. When it comes to fashion, I mainly style myself. I have a lot of confidence in what works for me and always go with my gut feeling.

13. Indian fashion has always been a way of escape for me: I would dress up as a child and pretend I was a princess!

14. I am extremely clumsy and can somehow fall even when standing still.

15. My most creative and impactful ideas come to me while I’m in the shower.

16. My brother and I always went to karate lessons and then came home to watch The karate kid to practice our movements.

17. I’m afraid of mosquitoes, especially when they buzz past your ear while you sleep.

18. I made the first move against my husband, Pavit [Randhawa].

19. I like eating Doritos on airplanes.

20. My pet peeve is people who chew loudly.

21. If I could live anywhere in the world, it would be in a beautiful villa in Bali.

22. I like to wear men’s perfumes; my all time favorite is Cool Water.

23. I am strangely intuitive and extremely spiritual.

24. I have consulted an astrologer since I was 15.

25. I always wonder what the world would be like if Tupac and The Notorious BIG were still alive. I think about it often.