Michael Jackson's Vitiligo And The Skin Condition

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In my essay I will talk about the skin condition Michael Jackson had known as vitiligo and his surgeries, along with his appearance. What I hope to accomplish with my classification of my topic will be to inform those who don’t know about him or why the pigment of his skin changed along with his face to know the truth. The audience will also know how he felt when he was diagnosed with the condition. When the reader gets done reading my essay, they will know a lot more about why his appearance changed over the years. What is vitiligo? Vitiligo is a skin disorder that destroys the pigment of one’s skin, leaving them with large or small blotches of skin on any part of their body; one celebrity diagnosed with this condition is Michael Jackson. …show more content…

He was constantly teased by his brothers and fathers for having a wide nose during his adolescence, leaving him very insecure about himself; in other words, making him think he was ugly as a result caused him to have very low self-esteem. Around the time after his release of his Thriller album Michael had an accident during the filming of a Pepsi commercial featuring him and his brothers there was a pyrotechnic malfunction which caused to fall and break his nose. Not only did this accident cause him to have another surgery and left him with 3rd degree burns on his scalp this would be the turning point of his dramatic life. Some people would look at Michael Jackson different during the later years of his dramatic …show more content…

His skin got lighter and his nose became slightly thinner than it looked back in the Thriller era. This was when the media slowly started to spread rumors that he bought the bones of elephant man, which he didn’t deny because he knew the media would believe anything people would say about him and that he started to sleep inside of what people would call a hyperbaric oxygen chamber. It was from then on the media started to say that he started to sleep in these chambers so that he could retain his young looks which turned out to be false. Only after this era would things get worse for Michael. From the 90’s on his skin slightly became pale and his facial features changed a lot. His nose again got slightly thinner and he addressed as to why he got his nose thin. He says he got it thinner at the time so he could hit higher notes when singing. This is also the time period, which the media claimed that Michael Jackson had bleached his own skin to become more Caucasian and he stated that he himself that he has vitiligo from his father’s side which is something that he can’t control. While in my personal opinion, I believed he destroyed the discolored patches to even his skin tone out

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