Reason Why Michael Jackson’s skin turn white.

Michael Jackson fan, inspired by his talent & kindness,able to do the moonwalk.

50w ago

Michael Jackson had a genetical disorder called Vitiligo which causes the skin to become lighter.

It occurs when skin pigment cells die or are unable to function. He talked about this in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, check it out:

Proof that he had it in his family and didn’t cause it to himself with bleaching creams, as some claim:

His grandfather had it too, you can see it on his cheek. MJ said it was in his family and he was telling the truth.

It started since he was a kid. It developed faster on his hand and that was why he started to use the Billie Jean glove!

Then as he grew, so did his vitiligo:

Definite proof he suffered from it:

His autopsy report confirms he had vitiligo( number 2 down here):

How he looked without make up on:

UPDATE 1:

Michael Jackson wasn’t the first black entertainer with vitiligo.

Arthur Wright, a black singer and dancer, suffered from vitiligo and turned completely white, just like Michael Jackson. His story was published in 1978 in the Ebony Magazine:

Here are some other vitiligo patients:

Darcel de Vlugt

Luke Davis

His dermatologist and make up artist speak about it:

The main reason I added this information is because a lot of people claim that Vitiligo can’t turn you fully white and that MJ used the disease as an excuse to change his skin color. As you can see, that was not the case.

UPDATE 2:

A great comparsion that shows how Michael would look like without vitiligo in his last years.

The result: He didn’t change that much, he just grew old.

Kat Sommers

MJ fan since 1991. Worked for official fan club.

317w ago

Yes, he really did. The autopsy report confirmed he suffered from vitiligo. Treatment often involves the depigmentation of the rest of the original skin colour, which can remain in blotches, to even out the skin tone, so he probably also did something “to become white”, as you put it. He remained proud of his race and colour, and reiterated the fact many times during his life. His children have indicated they were brought up to respect their heritage.

I think the fact he found it so hard to talk about, and tears came to his eyes when he admitted he had the disorder in 1993 in an interview with Oprah, shows how upsetting he found it.

Debra Nicholson

Michael Jackson’s strongest defender

34w ago

Frank Kai Pettaway MJ got vitiligo from his grandfather Joe’s dad, and no MJ didn’t “hate his race” as you claim, if he did then why did he always work with black producers,leading ladies in his short films,always gave money to UNCF, and made his TDCAU vid in the “blackest” part of Brazil? and other black organizations he gave money to. You don’t know what you are talking about I suggest you do a little research. before you say anything. I’m a lifelong fan and know almost everything about him, he wore wigs because he lost his hair because of the burns he got doing that Pepsi Video in 1983–84.He loved his race and don’t say he didn’t try to get with black woman he tried, he really did he was in love with Diana Ross and even tried to break up her marriage, he had a thing for Beonce’ and Stephanie Mills. And other black girls they wouldn’t give his the time of day. Debbie Rowe offered her womb to Carry MJ’s Children, and they are his kids.

MJ’s “White patches were too much for him to go Black ask Karen Faye she said that not MJ and she was his makeup artist for 20 some years.

His kids Prince
https://news.google.com/newspape…

Paris

Prince err MJ.JR and Samuel Jackson Joe’s dad

Come to think of it they all look like him.

MJ And his grandfather Samuel who had Vitiligo where it came from in his family look at Grand Pa’s face. The Vitiligo that’s where Michael Got his Vitiligo.

MJ’s Surprising Roots

Michael Jackson’s kids looks white because
Michael Jackson has WHITE paternal grandmother (Joe’s mother) and maternal grandfather who had MULATTO mother and MULATTO father (Katherine’s father). And his maternal grandmother is INDIAN and paternal grandfather is also ALMOST PURE INDIAN.
Michael’s father Joe Jackson has light eyes and he is pretty light-skinned.
MICHAEL AND ALL JACKSON S are African American BUT HAVE TOO LITTLE BLACK BLOOD THEM SELF.
THEY ARE ALL ON THE WHOLE INDIAN/WHITE BLEND IN THEIR GENE POOL than black
And Debbie is white. Of course their children don’t look half black. It is not possible to have black or mulatto children with white women when he himself has majority Indian and white roots than black. The COMBINATION of DEBBIE’S WHITE GENE and WHITE GENE FROM MICHAEL’S GENE POOL have made his children more white-looking than Indian and especially black or bi-racial.
These are his kids

And I don’t even have to mention Blanket but if you insist here goes

Another Paris and MJ smile first

And Prince has Vitiligo more proof they are his kids Vitiligo is hereditary so where did he get it from? His kids also resemble the Jackson’s Kids.

P.S. only Paris has light eyes and so does Joe and Latoya isn’t dark either (Not 2) of his kids have light eyes and NONE of them have Blonde hair MJ dyed Prince’s hair when he was little because MJ had done an interview when Prince was a baby and you can clearly see he had dark hair.

What color is his hair and eyes? Black hair and BROWN eyes, Not light eyes.

Dev Kanchen

205w ago

I’m writing this as an answer because there is a bunch of material on Michael Jackson – in the documentaries that released post his-death, statements from his surgeons, doctors and family during several interviews – that explains the origins of his issues, and leaves some mysteries unanswered. I will try to address each point raised that makes it seem like he “obviously” had race issues.

First, Vitiligo. It’s not an easy disease to have and doesn’t leave you with many options once it strikes. I’ve seen tons of people that suffered from it in India (where I live and where it is quite common in certain pockets) and had most of their skin basically go pinkish, and those are the lucky ones. Michael Jackson just turned out to have enough money to “tweak” it to white instead of staying a stand-out pink. As advanced as plastic surgery is, I don’t think it’s possible to inject someone with melanin (which is what “gives” people their colour) and have it spread uniformly, so going white – by bleaching – was to my knowledge, the only option he had. P.S: So I don’t think the comment “just as easily have chosen to darken the white spots” in Frank Kai Pettaway’s answer is fair. It’s not exactly like selecting the paint for your living room walls.

Second, restructuring his face. He hated his nose in particular, and looks in general because he resembled his father (at least that’s what he saw in the mirror). He had repeated nose jobs to narrow his nose, so that it won’t resemble his father’s broad one, and then some more because the repeated surgery made the structures supporting his nose weaker and weaker, necessitating MORE surgery.

Third, and this points to even deeper image issues, is that when he went to his doctor for the surgeries he reportedly used a statue of Nefertiti or Cleopatra (I don’t remember which) as the model. I don’t know what this does for the race angle, but to me this shows that he cared more to look like a beautiful woman than a handsome Caucasian! I mean – the cover of Bad – look at it!

Fourth, continuing with the image issues, he faked his voice ALL the time he was in public, for 30-something years. His natural voice was gruff and manly (he spoke that way in private with his brothers), but outside he would always talk with that nasal whine. I don’t know whether he wanted to sound like the child-star he once was, or like the beautiful woman he wanted to be, but neither of these speak “race identity” to me.

This is a sad story to recount, but Michael Jackson sounds like a man who grew to stardom way too young, and got attached to that stardom the wrong way. I think he believed that the stardom was attached to his voice, and tried to keep his voice at the same child-like tenor that first brought him success, even an impossible 30 years after his last childhood album. He saw the flood of billboards, magazine covers and photos, his own face constantly reminding him of his father, making him hate himself, feel ugly, and he had to eliminate that. Cue the infatuation with Nefertiti and the like.

The point is, Michael Jackson’s life is a case study of several issues interacting with his unfortunate, broken psyche to create the string of pretenses and falsehoods that his life had become. Dismissing all the issues with a single “race” explanation is only too easy, but like most things that are that easy, it’s not necessarily true.

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