# Michael Jackson is melting - TMI picture for those with weak stomachs **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 14, 2002, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-is-melting-tmi-picture-for-those-with-weak-stomachs/136712 "2002-11-14T13:32:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-is-melting-tmi-picture-for-those-with-weak-stomachs/136712/21 "2002-11-14T16:11:08Z")
My prediction: someday, he’s going to have boatloads more plastic surgery to try and look like he might have looked if he hadn’t had any plastic surgery to begin with. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-is-melting-tmi-picture-for-those-with-weak-stomachs/136712/22 "2002-11-14T17:14:11Z")
:shudder: I couldn’t even look at that picture for long - it was just too scary! What the hell is wrong with that man? ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-is-melting-tmi-picture-for-those-with-weak-stomachs/136712/23 "2002-11-14T17:21:03Z")
Honestly, do you think he even _knows_ what he looks like? I mean, he presumably has access to photos of himself as a kid, and the rest of us can see the difference. I have a feeling it’s gone beyond anyone’s control at this point, and he just can’t admit it in public. ---
**Author:** ![\_Deep\_F\_ied](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/7cd45c/32.png) [@\_Deep\_F\_ied](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Deep_F_ied)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-is-melting-tmi-picture-for-those-with-weak-stomachs/136712/24 "2002-11-14T18:01:00Z")
I got up from my desk and had to walk off the nausea. I just noticed that his eyes are following me…AHHHHH! :eek: ::runs out of the room screaming:: ---
**Author:** ![Ceejaytee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ceejaytee/32/2956_2.png) [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-is-melting-tmi-picture-for-those-with-weak-stomachs/136712/25 "2002-11-14T18:13:54Z")
I used to have a massive crush on Michael Jackson–he was soooo cute. Now he scares the heck out of me. Michael–come back to us! ---
**Author:** ![fizzestothetop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e79b87/32.png) [@fizzestothetop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizzestothetop)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-is-melting-tmi-picture-for-those-with-weak-stomachs/136712/26 "2002-11-14T18:23:13Z")
He looks like he’s wearing some sort of Halloween mask. A Really Scary Halloween Mask. Unfortunatly we can’t ask him to take it off. ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-is-melting-tmi-picture-for-those-with-weak-stomachs/136712/27 "2002-11-14T18:34:05Z")
This is what happens when you feed them after midnight. (I showed the pic to my co-worker who said, “Is he wearing a mask?” How do you answer that?) ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-is-melting-tmi-picture-for-those-with-weak-stomachs/136712/28 "2002-11-14T19:52:33Z")
What’s that skin disease he claims to have? The one he says made his skin loose pigment? Maybe it’s causing his nose to sink into his head, too. God, that slide show beagledave posted is facinating. Billie Jean Michael WAS fairly attractive. ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-is-melting-tmi-picture-for-those-with-weak-stomachs/136712/29 "2002-11-14T20:04:37Z")
You know, after staring at it for a while, it DOES look like he has some kind of rubber mask. It looks like a flesh-colored peel of Freeman’s mask, in that it covers everything but your eyes and right under the nose. I think that facial hair is fake, too. ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-is-melting-tmi-picture-for-those-with-weak-stomachs/136712/30 "2002-11-14T20:08:36Z")
There is a parallel thread in Cafe Society titled “Michael’s on fire”. I [noted in that thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=2592214#post2592214)how Michael looks just like the [main female character in “Planet Of The Apes”.](http://photo.towerrecords.com/pulse/graceland/2002/04/onscreen/planet_of_the-apes.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Super\_Gnat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Super\_Gnat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Super_Gnat)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-is-melting-tmi-picture-for-those-with-weak-stomachs/136712/31 "2002-11-14T20:16:38Z")
There’s a guy in my family who’s a pretty famous photographer. He took some pics of Michael when he was in his lock of hair down the face thing. He later told us that the reason that was there was because at that time the bottom of his nostrils were not attached to his face :eek:. He said that Michael’s people therefore were very, very careful about when, where, and how he was photographed. Our speculation was that regular cosmetic surgeons refused to reduce his nose any further so he got someone unscrupulous who botched the job. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-is-melting-tmi-picture-for-those-with-weak-stomachs/136712.md?page=1)