It’s now confirmed from the autopsy photos (available on TMZ and elsewhere) that Jackson’s whole body was white. Or maybe just his front…but I’m thinking his whole body.
What I want to know is how.
IIRC he had Vitiligo.
ETA, the wiki page ‘confirms’ it as well. It says he’s had it since the 80’s…can it spread to the entire body in 25 years?
Bleach?
As I recall, Michael did undergo skin whitening treatments. When knowledge of it became public, Michael claimed they were for treatment of the already mentioned vitiligo (he’d rather be all white than splotchy). Others have claimed that it was for purely cosmetic reasons.
I’d like to know if there have been any other documented or reported cases of people with vitiligo undergoing skin bleaching as a cosmetic solution. If not, I would find it hard to believe Michael Jackson’s bleaching wasn’t somehow more to do with his identity issues and psychological problems than with his vitiligo.
It says here that in cases of vitiligo where skin bleaching is used to treat the entire complexion, all treatments ultimately fail. 
This website seems to indicate that it’s not just mentally unstable pop superstars who treat their vitiligo with skin bleaching.
Actually, I had the wrong link posted. Here, it says that in cases where skin bleaching is used to treat vitiligo, and the bleaching is done for the entire complexion, all treatments utimately fail.
“Complete skin depigmentation is simply a futile process”-from the Wikipedia link
According to Reutersthe autopsy confirmed it, too.
Yes, he clearly had vitiligo; the question is whether or not his skin bleaching was done as a treatment for that condition or something else…Something more twisted.
Even his…
I think you’re misreading that link. It’s defining two different situations: ones in which skin bleaching is used to treat vitiglio, and ones where skin bleaching is used to depigment the entire body. Obviously, there’s not going to be much (if any) overlap in these cases, because people with vitiglio don’t need to use the depigment process on their entire body: the vitiglio has already depigmented them, probably to a large degree if they’re considering totally depigmenting themselves to even out the tone.
Regardless, your question wasn’t “Is this treatment effective,” your question was, “Is this treatment used to treat vitiglio.” I’m not sure what your Wiki link has to do with that.
The article says there were white patches on arms, chest and abdomen. Where is the info he was completely white coming from?
Thank you so much for that lovely visual.
Who cares? He was a broken man haunted by many problems, and died miserably. Don’t hover over his autopsy photos like a bunch of ghouls. Why would anyone even publish them?
And I know he was probably a child molester, and that is super awful, but this has nothing to do with that. Whatever mental problems he had died with him,
Wow, might be one of the shortest OPs around and you still didn’t read it??
Well, that’s obnoxious. I did read it, but the autopsy wasn’t linked to. The only link provided in the thread was to an article that contradicts the OP’s assertion. Even the OP was vague (whole body, maybe just his front).
I was responding to the side conversation about body bleaching, and discussing whether his whole was indeed bleached/white or not.
Wow, that’s an obnoxious thing to say.
remember when E.T. got really sick
As a matter of practicality, would it not be a far easier cosmetic solution to darken the pale areas than whitening the darker pigments?
It’s easy to forget just how dark complected he was.
See… he originally was a very normal black kid. Actually pretty good looking before he destroyed himself with plastic surgery and then mysteriously turned almost white. I’ve wondered if the bleaching came first and then later he got vitiligo.
http://images.watoday.com.au/2009/06/26/605319/jackson5-600x400.jpg