This rings true to me.
Actress: Michael Jackson’s glove was to hide skin problem – CNN.com
(CNN) — Michael Jackson’s single white glove was his trademark — an iconic image for a performer whose career constantly set, then redefined, pop culture trends.
Michael Jackson’s single glove, a trademark image, started as a way to hide his skin condition, friends sayBut it also was an early effort to mask a skin condition that he would struggle with for the rest of his life, say some who were close to him.
I also suffer from Vitiligo, the disease that MJ was trying to hide. Mine is not bad (yet) but I have spots all over my body that have lost melanin and are pale patches. Luckily for me, I’m pretty pale naturally so it isn’t terribly obvious. I do have some spots on my hands. If I were a darker-skinned person, I might even be embarrassed by them, but since they are barely noticeable against my lily-white normal skin, I don’t even think about them.
Vitiligo can be pretty pervasive on a person. I’m lucky in that so far it’s still pretty sporadic and scattered on me.
Does this explain all the rumors of MJ trying to “turn white?” I dunno, but it’s plausible to me, based on my own experience, that much of the “bleaching” that MJ was accused of could easily be due to him trying to even out his skin tone, if not entirely due to Vitiligo itself.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI always thought that was a big part of his reasons to do it. It seemed natural enough if his skin condition depressed him – people usually seem to have plastic surgery to feel better about some perceived deformity or inadequacy.
When I first heard of his serious face jobs I didn’t know about the condition, so at that time I had no idea why he’d want to do what he did to his face. But knowing about the disease now, it doesn’t seem so drastic a thing to do.
It is very possible that the Vitiligo lead him to the bleaching of his skin. My father has it on his hands and some parts of his face. The biggest problem he had with it was that it burned so easily, which is quite painful.
In the one report I read he had leopard-like spots on his chest.
I agree that this story has the ring of truth to it, but with as much makeup that he wore, I question the total motivation he had in bleaching out his face and arms.
Hard to know the true motivations that he had. This just looked like more of the same cosmetic stuff for him. His face had tons of work on it.
I doubt the vitiligo had anything to do with his nose jobs, but it plausibly was a factor in his supposed facial bleaching.
The facial work is a far different thing from bleaching the skin. His nose was worked on multiple times, his chin, his cheeks.
There was so much work done on his nose that there was hardly anything left of it.
Actually I’m amazed at some of the most recent pictures of him… he really does look very white. His hands look naturally white. Amazing whatever medications or procedures he took could do such a thing. But then, it is only pigment, I suppose… scar tissue is much the same and grows back without any.
I’ve heard quite a few people have been using this kind of treatment in recent years to ‘lighten’ their skin, some kind of creams that have been suspected of being potentially harmful or cancerous or something. Crazy that people would want to do that (or botox, come to think of it)…
People can saw what they want about the “other” MJ.
He bleached his skin.
He altered his face.
He affected an unnatural cadence and pitch.
At the end, he looked and sounded like his idol, Diana Ross.
… except that last I checked, Diana Ross was not white.
I always assumed that Michael was “turning,” as the old black folks called it when I was a kid.
I just figured he was like so many black folks around here. I see it every day. There is a pretty young black lady at the gas station I frequent. Her hands and lower arms are already whiter than mine. And some spots are starting on her face. The nose thing bothered me much more than the “turning.”
Yeah, this post wasn’t addressing his plastic surgery, I completely acknowledge how creepy that was.
I’m just saying that if he really had a bad case of vitiligo, I can totally understand why there would be rumors of him trying to ‘turn white’ even if he had no actual desire to do so.
Sure he totally wanted to be Dianna Ross, but as I said, she ain’t white.
After reading this I decided to go hunting for pictures of the changing man. You can see a progressive lightening of his skin color. Look at how dark he was when he was a kid. Compare it to later periods of time and each time he was lighter.
If this were all in response to the vitilego why did he go from dark brown to deep tan, to light tan to blinding white? All without there being any sign during those years of any spotting. This started even before he was wearing the glove.
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