Maybe Jacko Wasn’t Lying

Posted on December 18th, 2007 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: Michael Jackson, News

Posted by Bossip Staff

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For those of you who think Michael Jackson’s white face is suspect, here is the story of a Fox television anchor is who literally turning white and has the same disease Jacko claims to have:

His once brown, even complexion is now mottled with pale patches around his eyes and mouth, along his nose and on his ears; his arms, shoulders and chest are speckled and blotched.

“I’m a black man turning white on television and people can see it,” says Thomas, an anchor and entertainment reporter for the local Fox Broadcasting Company affiliate. “If you’ve watched me over the years, you’ve seen my hands completely change from brown to white.”Thomas has vitiligo, a disorder in which pigment-making cells are destroyed. White patches appear on different parts of the body, tissues in the mouth and nose, and the retina.

“There is no cause. There is no cure, and it’s very random,” Thomas says. “I could turn all the way white or mostly white.” As many as 65 million people worldwide have the disorder, including up to 2 million in the United States.

Poor thang.

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  • Pissed Off in New York

    It’s called Vitaligo, and I have it as well. My entire body has turned white. My hair is white/blonde, and I was as chocolate as Oprah once a long, long time ago!

  • Whatchaknoaboutdat?

    I’ve always thought that it was quite possible for Wacko Jacko to really have Vitiligo — because my cousin has it and it happen very quickly as he was growing up and he is very embarrassed and ashamed of it.

    So with that said… I agree.

  • Pissed Off in New York

    @Whatchaknoaboutdat?

    It is VERY embarrassing. I was black in some places and white in others. It happened right after my son was born, and I keep PRAYING it doesn’t happen to him.

  • likely

    he looks ok.but i think he has something wrong,He was said to be fond of internet recently. Some of his female fans found him on a millionaire&celebs dating club “WealthyKiss.com”. He has a personal account there with his handsome pictures, blog and something about his films, albums…In his friend circle, some other stars can be found there. Of course, many hot girls join in his circle. One of girls there said that they often joked, even flirt with each other.

  • Pissed Off in New York

    @shesofine

    Probably!

  • http://grown-and-sassie.blogspot.com/ Heather

    if that I happened to me I would die. That is absolutely not cute.

  • Li

    My Aunt had it and when I was growing up I didn’t understand why she looked the way she did, so I always believed MJ. But the cosmetic surgery, thats a different story.

  • TT

    I dont believe MJ. You can look at that fool & tell he has had surgery…..MJ’s face will be on the floor in about 10yrs.

  • FineAsWine

    SORRY ..UH HAD TO GO THERE..LOL

  • FineAsWine

    NO OFFENSE TO THOSE WHO REALLY STRUGGLE…

  • SK27

    he was lying just like when he said he only got 1 nose job.

  • Madison

    I’m from Detroit and I watch Fox 2 here and I’m proud of Lee Thomas for coming out with his story. When he’s on the air he wears makeup on his face but he leaves his hands the same. I wish him nothing but the best! Because some people (especially our own black people) can be so insensitive and ignorant sometimes.

  • tinyt

    No, this has no relation to Michael, because he didn’t become “mottled”, “speckled” and “blotched” he became all white all at once. I guess next we’ll hear that his hair is also the result of a medical condition.

  • SHAWNA

    YIKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKES!!!!

    LOOKS LIKE BOOTZ’S MAMA!!!

  • chris

    mike has vitilago but also with a little help from bleaching screams to speed up the process. I’m suprised his face hasn’t fallen on the floor ten years ago.

  • http://masn Ebo

    I think he is brave for coming out and telling people that this is his condition.Yet,there are blacks that wish they could have this: Self hating suckaz.Those are the ones we should watch out for,ummm Michael Jackson that’s you boy! Other than that we should respect all blacks that are light or dark…

  • Unkle Kracka

    @ merry j blyge

    Heh, heh an i thawt i wuz mean, heh, heh

  • hmmmmm……

    I know someone who has this condition and parts of his faces hands and upper chest have been affected (I haven’t seen the rest of his body). He’s had it for as long as I’ve known him (about 12 yrs.) and when I look at him, I don’t see the lack of color, I just see him. You become accustomed and it’s like not there anymore. I have a birthmark on my face which is kind of around the top part of my eye and goes down a little on my cheek. It’s always been there and I’ve had people tell me that they didn’t even notice it until I pointed it out to them and even when I look in the mirror, I don’t see it unless I actually focus my eyes to see it. We really can train our eyes to see what we want to see.

  • Unkle Kracka

    @ buffie

    are you that jew gal who kills all those draculas on that tv show, heh, heh

  • ITS VERY COMMON

    i have RE-VITILIGO, i just keep getting darker, and blacker, and darker and blacker. my gums look like the the back of forrest whitakers neck.

  • MistaO

    Much respect to this man for coming forward and standing strong in light of this condition. For some of you more ignant “people” this is what’s called being a real man!

  • Jamie

    Mike still lying…I still believe Toya…she said he beached his skin…Toya wasn’t lying that JJ was married and she was. It still doesn’t make sense why cut up his nose, lips, chin to look white…

  • LMAOOOOOO!!!

    i have RE-VITILIGO, i just keep getting darker, and blacker, and darker and blacker. my gums look like the the back of forrest whitakers neck.

    ____________________________________

    BWAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAAA! *DEAD*

  • mo’ree

    These dude has white PATCHES it’s not a complete head to toe bleach like micheals…that’s the main difference…

    ROTFL@re-vitiligo

  • Voice of Reason

    Michael has vitiligo.

    Fine. I have a family friend with it. He happens to be white. But I am damned sure if he put makeup on to disguise it, he wouldn’t put on black face.

    Michael could have used makeup the color of his original skin to cover his blemishes. He chose to use chemicals and makeup to fit in with his other image-altering plans: to transform from a black man to a white woman. Everything fits.

  • name withheld

    Doesn’t tempest bledsow (or however you spell it) from the cosby show have that too?

  • http://www.theblackactor.com Baby Please

    Michael Jackson don’t have no damn vitiligo.

    He uses preparations which suppress (or eventually stops) the production of melanin in the skin.

    http://www.theblackactor.com

  • http://www.theblackactor.com Baby Please

    I’m telling you… and I ain’t buggin out. I live in Atlanta now. There is something strange going on here. They’ll be refering to my comment in twenty years. I’ve lived in oher states.

    THERE IS AN UNUSUALLY HIGH RATE OF VITILIGO IN ATLANTA. I don’t know why. I don’t know how. But I was struck by the frequency of this here. It’s noticeable. I’m sayin. And I ain’t buggin’. Something is going on here. I’ve been suspicious for two years.

    The difference is quite noticeable compared to where I’ve lived previously (including Oakland and NYC).

    I’m sayin. And I aint’ trippin, either. Trust.

    http://www.theblackactor.com

  • Soul Cry

    I know many people who have this…mostly Black and some Jews. I never commented on Jacksons skin, cause I always knew there was a possibility he suffered from the same affliction.

  • Soul Cry

    At the same time, bleaching can also cause spotting. Bleaching is a BIG problem, especially in Africa and the Carribean.

  • AND…

    Why would this guy having it validate Mike having it? I don’t get that. I know a couple of girls back in highschool who had it. One never went completely white and the other looked like a ghost. Even her hair lost it’s pigment and was kind of yellow.

  • AND…

    Soul Cry

    At the same time, bleaching can also cause spotting. Bleaching is a BIG problem, especially in Africa and the Carribean.

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    When I heard about this a few years ago I was shocked. They were like “the local women will go into town to guy bleaching creams.” I was like those damn white folks (sorry if any are in here, no disrespect) have got damn near every ethnicity darker than a brown paper bag hating their complexion. Damn that, black is beautiful.

  • Kat

    Is it really that hard to believe? I love how people talk trash about someone but never bother to do the research. The evidence for Michael’s condition is there if you bother looking. There are photographs where his makeup has come off- obviously he wasn’t going to perform without trying to even out blotches. Of course people argue it’s photoshopped but at the end of the day you believe what you want. All I’m saying is it ticks me off when people are judgmental and cruel to people who at the very least MIGHT actually be suffering from something beyond their control. How effing hateful are you if you point fingers at this anchor and MJ KNOWING you can never be certain of why they are this way now? Seriously who do you think you are? God says a fool talks about what he does not know and some of you people are really proving that right now.

  • Anonymous3

    I think we all know the difference between having this awful disease and someone who has their entire skin bleached….as most people know the disease does not bleach your entire skin…

  • nahnah

    Bleaching is a BIG problem, especially in Africa and the Carribean.

    __________________________

    In Asia too! I think India is the number one in bleaching creams.

    A good majority of Japanese celebrities bleach their skins.

    Go to 116th and Frederick Douglass Blvd and you’ll see a bunch of Africans selling bleaching creams. Also, you’ll see plenty of them with really light and ashy faces, and then their necks are dark.

    It’s a sick practice, and it’s a shame.

    I love my brown skin tone !!!

  • Kev

    Its a very real disease, gossipers are the worse. I’m from Detroit, I just saw Lee Thomas a few weeks ago. He’s a very nice guy.

  • http://myspace.com/taddie20 TaShA

    i live in the area where his news station is broadcast and i thought that it was very brave of him to talk about what he is suffering from. they definitely have him in plenty of makeup for the news. even his hands have changed color. i think that they put makeup on his hands as well but i’m not completely sure.

  • BG

    OK…THE SKIN DISEASE MIGHT BE REAL. BUT WHAT’S THE EXCUSE FOR HAVING LITTLE BOYS OVER HIS HOUSE???

  • DumbAsses

    First off, I feel sorry for all of you who spend their time here writing nasty comments about one another. Michael Jackson DOES have Vitiligo. He appeared “all white at once” because he went through a process that dipigmented him, which is recommended for those who have over 60percent pigment lost. A businessman in India went through the same process. Regardless of what people want to say, that man’s hand looks exactly like Michaels. Those of you who would mock another person for what they cannot control are cruel. We are all humans, and it could have just as easily have been us.

  • stan-b-gone

    i dont doubt the condition is real. i know several people who have it. but i dont think michael has it. his skin all over got lighter and lighter as if he was going through bleaching treatments until he had no pigment left. then he got those nose jobs and other facial work. he just found a condition to try to justify his self-hatred.

  • jay

    @ re-vitiligo LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! too funny!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • A True Gem

    There were a few folks who were upset with me on the blog when I said the following, it is a Paul Mooney joke. A guy who wrote jokes for Richard Pryor when he did stand up. He is very political incorrect but when he talks about race he get you to think. Basically this brother should be happy he is turning white he has the completion for the protection. Whenever I see a white homeless person I cry because what a complete wasted of white skin.

    I love being black, but being white does have its advantages, cause it is the completion for the protection. LMAO

  • Soul Cry

    @And and Nahnah

    …it’s a serious thing. But realize, institutions, social status, etc are built on the colour seperation. India, as you’ve stated Asia, and the list goes on.

  • Mike Aile

    that’s what i’ve been trying to tell you guys – when i told Oprah, those many years ago, primetime live, i thought that would be the end of speculations that i was trying to be a white man. i told you then and i tell you now, i’m very proud to be this black strong man, i have sinuses that’s why i had the nose job but that’s only because my breathing was a problem but as for the skin, i did not bleach my skin and this other black man will look like me in 13 months. i have to run, have to check out another book for blanket at barnes and nobles ..

  • Ashamed..

    Im now convinced black people are the dumbest people on the planet. Those of you dumb enough to say MJ turned white all at once are sooooo stupid its sad! The man is a performer do you really think he’s gonna come on stage looking like a friggin Jersey cow just to prove he has the disease? Were any of you around him daily in the eighties to know it “happened all at once”? I have a dear friend with this disease and he is now completely white and many thought he was bleaching b/c they were too stupid and ignorant to just ask what was really going on…

    We will never get anywhere as a people all we ever do is bring each other down…

  • sdedee

    Kay and Dumbasses; Bravo!!! Some of You people do not know either of of these men. What you speak is your narrow minded opinion. For goodness sake. The man’s head caught on fire with that curl juice(highly flamable) who knows how much scalp damage he has? He may have to wear a wig! If you are not a personal friend you need to preface with in my narrow minded opinion!!! And if people could be bleached so well and easily Im sure a whole lot of black folks would be in line to reap the benefits of the majority!!! Dont front!!

  • lainy

    @pissed off in NewYork I am familiar with the disease I once heard that once it takes over your body you die. Apparently this isn’t true because you said that you have it all over your body. How do people react to you after your transformation? Please let me know I have an Uncle who is experiencing the same thing and he is very very dark.

  • CrispyBlackChick

    why his kids all white? did his sperm get vitaligo too? i’m just saying! :)

  • DumbAsses

    but i dont think michael has it. his skin all over got lighter and lighter as if he was going through bleaching treatments until he had no pigment left. then he got those nose jobs and other facial work. he just found a condition to try to justify his self-hatred.

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    Dipigmentation is a treatment for vitiligo. You can continue to refuse to understand it or acknowledge it, but it is a disease, and Michael does have it. His back is still brown and his legs and arms are still spotted. He did not “turn white”, he lost his pigment. He is the color of a ghost, lacking pigment totally, akin to the color of an albino.

  • DumbAsses

    Also as far as the SKIN BLEACHING. ALL of those who believe that you can bleach yourself to the point that Michael supposedly has, needs to type SKIN BLEACHING into Google. People’s skin gets ALL TYPES OF MARKS and sometimes turn yellow. Michael would have already been dead from the toxicity if he had used that much. SKIN cannot withstand that much bleaching.

  • DumbAsses

    The man is a performer do you really think he’s gonna come on stage looking like a friggin Jersey cow just to prove he has the disease? Were any of you around him daily in the eighties to know it “happened all at once”?

    —————————–

    Exactly. He couldn’t have performed looking like that? People STILL well OBVIOUSLY by the comments here, STILL treat vitiligo suffers with distain. Many people laugh and point at them. Why wouldn’t he while at the top of the world, try to hide it as long as he could.

  • DumbAsses

    He is very political incorrect but when he talks about race he get you to think. Basically this brother should be happy he is turning white he has the completion for the protection. Whenever I see a white homeless person I cry because what a complete wasted of white skin.

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    LOL…haaaaaaa

  • Blacksmith

    Good for this man showing what a lot of people are ashamed of.

    As far as Mike Jack – he does have Vitiligo. Instead of going through the gradual change, he decided to use a topical steroid cream that removes the pigment from your skin over time. Mike always wore make-up and it’s rumored that’s why he started to wear the glove. His make-up artists have said in the past that they started using more and more make-up to cover the spots until he decided to get the treatments. None of us ever saw him in short sleeves or shorts until the Bad album, because, again, it takes TIME for the solution to work. And it may not work on everyone. My mother and brother have this disorder and I most likely will too. The reason a lot of other people don’t get this treatment is because it is expensive and you have to sit under a special light several times a week. I would advise people to speak with their doctors and understand that the disorder does not spread at the same rate or even in the same places for all people.

  • justme

    i’ve seen plenty of people with this condition. I believe it is a skin problem. i don;t velieve MJ had it. He is the only one who claims it, i have never heard Jermain, Janet,Toto i mean Tito, and not even they momma confirm. I dont think he trynna be white , i think he just wanted to be light, and it backfired

  • DumbAsses

    i’ve seen plenty of people with this condition. I believe it is a skin problem. i don;t velieve MJ had it. He is the only one who claims it, i have never heard Jermain, Janet,Toto i mean Tito, and not even they momma confirm. I dont think he trynna be white , i think he just wanted to be light, and it backfired

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    His family has made a few comments about his condition, but Michael did not want his business discussed in the public. He was forced to eventually tell everyone, because of the progression of the disease. STOP putting your own issues off on Michael. How dare you say he wanted to be “light” and it backfired? Diseases dont work that way. He lost his pigment gradually. The stupid colortstruck masses might have liked how he looked during Bad, but he was still losing his color after that…

    Continue to remain in ignorant. I pity those who refuse to look at reason and evidence. Sadly, many black people do.. Its depressing that we will still make silly jokes and comments in the face of information.

  • CROOKE

    WTF….THAT HAS TO BE SOMETHING CRAZY IF I EVER HEARD IT. IT MAKES ME TAKE A FEW STEPS BACK WITH EVERY INCIDENT I’VE HEARD OF. BUT I WONDER, IF THERE’S A DISEASE THAT MAKES YOU GET “DARK” …????

  • DumbAsses

    Michael would have NEVER been able to do what this reporter is doing. He had JUST gotten his career started. Regardless of the comments made by the ignorant, he continued to have a very successful career with his condition. He did not make decide to tell the world until after HE had establisihed himself as an artists, and had made his money..

  • jazzyphile

    How come we never saw Mike with any spotting like this newsman?

    Mike just showed up one day (when he released the BAD album) completely white. We mever saw any transformation. The pappaerazi would of had some photos of him similar to the newsman in this post.

  • Traydayz

    The correct line is the complexion for the protection.

  • buttafly

    Ya’ll better be careful, the man is out to make us all like him. LOL

  • poetry76

    Thank you to all the people who posted information about this disease and helping us to understand. A really nice guy at my job has vitiligo and he is very upfront with telling people, but as someone said it is different for different people. His face just seems like it has large freckles, yet his hands resemble the reporter’s. I wish that people would read the other posts before posting comments. There are people telling you what is going on with this disease and yet some of you post as if you were the first person on here. As for MJ, having body dismorphic disorder, an addiction to plastic surgery and his vitiligo are seperate issues and lumping them together does not help to understand his treatment for the condition or others dealing with this whether famous or not.

  • Kay

    Actually if you guys really look @ MJ’s album covers esp between Off The Wall and Thriller, you will notice the extreme amount of make up on Michaels face, you can actually see the discoloration.. But unlike Tom, I believe Michael sped up the process simple because between Thriller and Bad he went completely white, and it SEEMS impossible. This Tom guy seems to have been going thru this for A LONG TIME.. not just a few years… I don’t think anyone should be embarrassed by the condition it’s out of their control.

  • just me

    growing up, i knew someone that suffered from this disease as well as epilepsy. he never turned completely white, his face had big splotches and his hands were almost completely white. however, i still don’t believe jacko. if he could explain why his hair is so damn straight and his lips are freakishly thin, maybe i would.

  • knows

    Wow, there are some really ignorant comments on here but as usual alot(not all) of black people tend to be best at laughing and mocking other people. Im so glad this man did this. He is forcing people to understand the disease. It is not physically painful or contagious. I still don’t quite understand michaels version of it as I suppose he wears make up most times, but I never doubted that it was true.

  • Malaika

    Not sure if someone has already said this, but….

    The disease/disorder still does not excuse Michael Jackson from having a EURO nose, thin EURO lips and an implanted weave. I don’t think vitiligo changes your features!!!!

    Come on people! Let’s wake up!!

  • CGJ

    Lee Thomas is a Fox 2 anchor in Detroit, and I can say that I literally watched his “transformation” happen before my eyes. We also recently ran into one my husband’s high school friends who also has Vitiligo. It’s a real disease, but I still don’t believe it’s what Michael Jackson had – he bleached his skin.

  • WeSSide Eviscer8r

    Only someone truly ignorant (look up the word for its meaning), does not know that this is a real disorder. With that said, I would also like to point out that I do not know whether MJ has it or not. Like most, maybe all of us here commenting, I can only speculate. I have a dear friend who has had this disorder since she was a girl in elementary. She is now a woman in her mid 30s…At one time, she was an actual “poster girl” for this disorder and flew around the country (outside of it too) as a living example of what this disorder does to the skin…In turn, her family was given all the state-of-the-art treatment and she knew all of the world’s greatest doctors specializing in the study/treatment of vitiligo. NEVER had she heard that MJ suffered from the disease, until that night on tv when he told Oprah/the world he had it. Of course this does not prove that he does/did not have it; my friend would be the first to agree that doesn’t prove he does not have it. However, and this is the point, if he had it, wouldn’t those very same doctors—the ones she still deals with as a case study—wouldn’t they have seen MJ in his beginning stages of the disorder? The best in the world, right there in California—where he lived—and MJ didn’t see them? He saw the best in everything he needed medically (burns, rhinoplasty, maxiofacial work,dental..etc…)…but not for a major disorder that was/would impinge upon his very livelihood as that of a world class performer? GTFOH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What you need to do, those of you out there that NEED to believe in Mike’s version of what that thing is that he has turned into…What you need to do is get a hold of Mike’s/The Industry’s Lie Translator…It’s a little hand-held decoder box, which instantly gives said entertainer a lie/term to use when not wanting to tell the public the truth. Pefect for the hoidays! Ex…Mike gets a nose job…he says into box “nose job”…the box says back “deviated septum.” Mike says into the box, “bleaching skin” the box replies, “vitiligo.” Mike say into the box “lacefront” the box says “i just add water to my hair” (remember that comment he made back in the day?) or ” it does like that since the Pepsi fire.” Mike says to box “chin implant” the box doesn’t have an answer for that one. Can one of u MJ lie believers help his lie box with an excuse for that chin, cheeks or built in, permanent eye-liner that Mike has??? CAN U??????????

  • WeSSide Eviscer8r

    and…as mentioned way b4 up there on this board..what does this anchorman’s ordeal have to do with mike’s self-hate at being black? Best wishes to Lee Thomas and his family.

  • Love HIM

    Madison

    I’m from Detroit and I watch Fox 2 here and I’m proud of Lee Thomas for coming out with his story. When he’s on the air he wears makeup on his face but he leaves his hands the same. I wish him nothing but the best! Because some people (especially our own black people) can be so insensitive and ignorant sometimes.

    ************************

    I’m also a Detroiter and I commend Lee for standing up!

    And “Dumbasses”, the LEAST effective way to combat ignorance is to BE ignorant yourself. There is no need to come in here calling names and being rude!

  • http://www.lovelifegodsexmoney.com http://www.lovelifegodsexmoney.com

    @ Mistarie – well spare another thought for Buffie as this may be the best she can do currently and may already be trying to re educate herself but was anxious to make her point.

  • DumbAsses

    Not sure if someone has already said this, but….

    The disease/disorder still does not excuse Michael Jackson from having a EURO nose, thin EURO lips and an implanted weave. I don’t think vitiligo changes your features!!!!

    Come on people! Let’s wake up!!

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    So what? He got the surgery. WOULD YALL STILL HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT HIM IF HE WAS THE SAME COLOR WITH THE SAME FEATURES FROM THE OFF THE WALL ERA? NO you wouldn’t have. People are ignorant, and biased against albinos.

  • DumbAsses

    I’m also a Detroiter and I commend Lee for standing up!

    And “Dumbasses”, the LEAST effective way to combat ignorance is to BE ignorant yourself. There is no need to come in here calling names and being rude!

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    Now we’re concerned with rudeness. This whole place is rude and disgusting. Those of you who spend your time writing nasty comments about others should take a look within, into the darkness that is your soul. Regardless of the opinions of idiots who wish to disrespect, dehumanize, and mock others, Michael Jackson is still a rich man, and you guys are simply missing out. When he is gone from the earth, idiots will suddenly begin to praise him.

  • sosick

    I think it makes some people feel good to have something over MJ> No matter who they are, they can laugh to themselvs and say, “I stayed black” look at that freak. Its sad how we treate our revolutionaries and those who pioneer.

  • http://www.lovelifegodsexmoney.com http://www.lovelifegodsexmoney.com

    Kay, Dumbasses and Poetry 76 bravo for rescuing the level of ignorance and immaturity back to something acceptable regarding this subject (and the person who commented about the Jersey cow – very well put).

  • sosick

    Oh and as far as rudeness, rudeness brings on rudeness…

  • http://iheartmysugardaddy.blogspot.com Kiki

    I think he has vitiligo, but I think once he discovered it, instead of looking patchy he decided to bleach his skin all at once.

  • Daria

    With severe vitilago, there is medication that one can take to completely take away the remaining pigment. So, if Michael Jackson does suffer from this, he most likely did not “bleach his skin” and instead, took meds to become what we see today. The idea that you can get skin that white from skin bleaching is ridiculous. I really wish people would educate themselves before making presumptive and ignorant statements.

  • Shootingstar

    As rich as Michael was, no telling what he used to bleach his skin. The tears of unbaptised chinese orphans. Rhino blood mixed with diamond dust. The ground-up bones of the elephant man.

    I’m just saying…nothing was out of Michael’s reach around 15-20 yrs ago.

  • SayIt

    duh mike wasn’t lying about having vitaligo, he just had his induced so it would progress faster.

  • and what…?

    yeah — it’s a real disease and I believe jacko has it!

  • di-my-e

    Maybe Michael has vitiligo and also has self hating issues. The very fact that people in here are arguing about what this man chooses to do with his own body probably contributes to the latter. Leave his issues with HIS appearance be.

  • Wenzel Dashington

    This just in…the Klu Klux Klan has just donated a million dollars to stop a cure for vitiligo.

  • Queen Bee

    Listen, After reading these comments I feel the need to educate you ignorant ass people- My child has Vitiligo, it is a real disease. However, Michael Jackson is obviously bothered by other afflictions that have NOTHING

  • Queen Bee

    ….TO DO WITH VITILIGO- ITS CALLED LOW-SELF ESTEEM- IT JUST MAKES ME ANGRY THAT HE HAS USED THAT TO CONFUSE A REAL ISSUE WITH HIS SICKNESS.

    THAT ALL I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT IT

  • Pissed Off in New York

    @Anonymous3

    I beg to differ! I started out blotching on my arms, face and back & one leg. Within 5 years, my entire body was white. I don’t know what the hell “bleaching” is, but I’m sure it must burn because bleach will burn your skin. I now wear makeup to make me appear a little darker than my actual skin color. And let me just say that I didn’t ask for this. I was so ashamed, I stayed in the house except to go to work. It started as a white blotch on my inner arm, and spread from there. It’s not funny, it’s not cute, and I hate not being the previous “chocolate child” I once was. I hate black people for staring at me, and I hate white people for looking at me trying to figure out what I am. I’m a black female with a son who’s hair also started graying at the age of 10, and I’m scared to death that it’s going to happen to him. People like most of you look at people like me as if we are some kind of damned freaks. Well, I’m not a freak, and I wish I could change back, but I can’t! So try to educate yourselves and show some compassion. You all have computers. Google Vitiligo and see what you come up with and then apologize to those of us who are suffering out here.

  • TOOTH DOC

    @ WeSSide Eviscer8r

    “He saw the best in everything he needed medically (burns, rhinoplasty, maxiofacial work,dental..etc…)…but not for a major disorder that was/would impinge upon his very livelihood as that of a world class”

    BLAH, BLAH, BLAH….ITS MAXILLOFACIAL

  • Dalia Mason

    That might explain MJ’s skin color, but that doesn’t explain what he did with his nose, chin, mouth, etc.

    Just face it. Michael does not want to be black. This disease is one thing, but Michael’s self hatred is another thing entirely.

  • WeSSide Eviscer8r

    @ Toof Doc

    Thanx!

    p.s. hahahaha…u edjumacated! i like that!

  • lala

    it is sad that Black people don’t know that this can happen….and that Micheal Jackson could’ve been telling the truth. I bet it started in his hands—hence the glove…..

    divided we fall, always will…

  • Mikey

    YOU IDIOTS! MICHAEL HAD THE FREAKIN DISEASE. HE BLEACHED HIMSELF TO FINISH THE PROCESS OFF QUICKER. HE DIDN’T WANT TO LOOK LIKE A FREAKIN TIE-DIED T-SHIRT. DO YOU THINK THE GENERAL PUBLIC WOULD HAVE ACCEPTED HIM? NOPE!

  • Life

    If MJ had Vitaligo, he would have used it to help the children he said he loves so much to deal with it by showing the world its progress and how to deal with it. It would have made him more popular with the public (something he really needed to do by then) if he really had it and used it to help children BUT he didn’t because he doesn’t have it!! He could have cashed in many ways big time if he REALLY had it by doing it this way! He had everything to gain by revealing it’s progress if he really had it!

  • lace_nola

    Do ya’ll really think that in the ’80′s when there were only two prominent mainstream black artists (one of whom is half-white) it would have been in Micheal’s best interest to come out and say I have a disease the industry wasn’t all syrupy sweet like it is now and celebrities didn’t have “causes” Michael did the only thing he knows how to do entertain. Ya’ll still playing around with the pied piper who does music so he can lure our daughters in so why can’t Mike have vitalago

  • http://floacist.wordpress.com angela

    i love…’Snickers’

    If that the only flaw you saw in my post, I can say thank you. lol Jheri curl is no different than a perm. You’re putting chemicals in your hair. And I’m positive that you know MJ has had a jheri curl in his hair as long as Jermaine has had a high-top fade. lol

  • Yadadamean?

    i know people like that

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