Jackson has been known to often go out in disguise, just to shop, or to witness for the church he was brought up in. In another brief about his court appearance, there was a reference to his arriving in disguise. Heavens! It must be hell to have to hide from one’s adoring public. All those groupies! Is groupies a gender-specific term? Age-specific?
–Nott, who still thinks Dennis Rodman is at least 6% stranger than Michael
It makes me sad.
Isn’t that Helena Bonham-Carter from that lousy Planet of the Apes?
But I agree with mayberrydan as well.
I am just glad I wasn’t eating when I brought up that pic!
jeez looeez…
I am really not exaggerating when I say that MJ looks worse than HBC in those photos.
I was so distracted by the nose in that Yahoo picture that I didn’t notice the hair. Don’t they make more realistic wigs these days? Look at the hairline.
Vitiligo is a condition where you lose pigmentation. Unfortunately you don’t lose it evenly, it tends to be patchy, so you might have smooth, gorgeous dark skin and then a big splotch of whitish-pink.
Make-up is still the best way of disguising it. There are other skin dye type products, but they tend to produce strange hues and still requires make-up to even it out. Depending on how much pigment you’ve lost and where, it’s sometimes easier to go lighter with make-up than darker (if MJ is telling the truth, this may be why he cakes on so much light make-up).
Vitiligo, IIRC, does not cause you skin to deteriorate – it won’t make your face fall apart, it’s just gives you a facier paint job.
Jeep’s Phoenix Ohhhh… it’s a band-aid! On clearer photos you can see it better. It looks like he put make-up over it too. That has been bugging me all week because I couldn’t figure out why he looked like he had duct tape over the bridge of his what-used-to-be-a-nose.
MY guess: Wicked sun damage to fragile skin that he’s trying to keep covered (hence pealing nose and arrival under an umbrella to dodge the sun.)
He’s a freak all right, but I wouldn’t blame nature for it. Nature did a fine job. They just couldn’t leave it alone. ::shudder::
:eek: Oh my freaking GAWD!!! :eek: Ok, I’m going to cry now…
err, sorry for the excessive use of smilies, but they were completely necessary.
L.A. Times article—“Is Jackson’s nose what the doctors ordered?”.
It’s super-creepy. I just want to see it close up. I want to figure out, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING on his nose?!?
I’m not sure but Mikey may end up being the Howard Hughes of our generation. He’s getting increasingly wierd, increasingly insular and keeps losing his fortune hand over fist.
I’m starting to wonder if, being in the line of work he’s in, he even expected to still be alive at 44, back when he was 24.
[Emily Latella voice]
What’s this I hear about Michael Jackson getting Buttocks Injections in his face? Doesn’t he know that’s going to make him look like an ass? How does he do this? Does he lie on his back and let some asshole straddle his face or do they use a turkey baster to…
[Chevy Chase voice]
Emily! Emily! That’s Botox Injections, not Buttocks Injections.
[Emily Latella voice]
Oh… I see.
Well… never mind.
He’s this century’s Elephant Man!
Speaking of, found this:
Rodman is just an attention starved idiot. Jackson is certifiably out of his mind, and obviously suffers from severe psychological problems.
Um, I wouldn’t compare him with poor Joseph Merrick. The guy had a horrible disease, but from what I understand, was reasonably intelligent.
Joseph Merrick: “I am a man!”
Michael Jackson: “I am a woman. AOW!”
Thanks, Charmian. I’ve been wondering about that for a while.
When I first saw this picture last week, I thought it was a photoshop joke. Imagine my horror when I was told it wasn’t doctored. :o
Ack, I forgot which smiley is which. That should have been :eek:
Nasty. . . .