Why are Michael Jackson's kids white?

What? For serious? The boys both have Michael’s very distinctive* jawline, his cheekbones and his eyes.

This is coming from someone who always has a lot of trouble saying that a kid has his father’s/mother’s nose, or his grandma’s cheekbones or whatever. I mean, I have trouble finding similarities between generations, so for me to see the similarities between MJ and HIS* kids means it’s really really obvious.

  • People looked at me oddly for years when I’d say that the prettiest part of MJ was his jawline, but I’m serious.

  • They’re HIS, for god’s sake. Even IF you believe they aren’t biologically related to him (which is a load of shit), he obviously was their dad. I really hope all you people saying he wasn’t would say the same thing to any adopted child. Oh wait, no, I hope you don’t, because it’s incredibly crass and uncaring.

I don’t think it means they’re not really his kids. I just mean biologically–I don’t see any resemblance at all. Sorry.

Blanket is the only one who looks like he might be Michael’s kid. There’s an outside chance that Prince and Paris are his, due to genetic wierdness, but it’s much much more likely that MJ used sperm donors for his first two.

Huh? A sperm donor is certainly the biological father of any child(ren) produced by impregnating a woman with his sperm, but AFAIK anonymous sperm donors aren’t presumed to be the legal father of any such children. What “locations” are you thinking of where this is the case?

Wow, those pictures of Prince really do look like MJ. Especially in the eyes.

I agree with DiosaBellissima - it’s much more interesting to invent kooky stories about surgery and bleaching, but the reality is likely much more mundane. Around the Bad era he also started wearing medical bandaging on his arms as well. We all thought it was a new fashion statement…

I had a teacher with vitiligo, a Black guy. His skin was lighter than a White person’s, except around his eyes (eyelids). And of course he had blotches of dark skin. It would be much easier for him to camouflage his skin (if he chose to do so) with the lighter skin than the dark, which was essentially nonexistent except for the few patches on his face.

Speaking as someone who has vitiligo, this is true. The effects are devastating to body image and self-esteem. I am a naturally pale (total WASP with reddish hair) white woman and vitiligo is hell for me–I cannot imagine the difficulties black people have with it. But I agree that Jacko had major body issues, far beyond his vitiligo…

I don’t really care who his kids look like. I just hope none of them grow up into complete messes. Oh, and the google link won’t let you see the full size pic of the 2 girls; I think something is wrong with the page the pic is on.

One of my neighbors had just moved in and was trick or treating with her six year old daughter. The mom had classic Irish features – long red hair and green eyes. Meanwhile her daughter was clearly African American and looked almost nothing like her except for being also quite tall for her age and long limbed.

I said nothing but I wondered just a little bit.

And then I met her Haitian father.

Same thing with the French Canadian woman down the block, her Chinese husband and her very Asian looking children.

You never know.

I don’t think that Paris came from Michael’s sperm. Her nose is too thin, as are her lips. And none of those 3 kids have any curl to their hair.

My entire family on both sides has bone straight hair-- thick, Italian bone straight hair and thin, waspy bone straight hair.

My hair is curly.

Am I adopted? Need answer fast.

Yes, you were. Your father was… Michael Jackson!
I don’t understand the fixation on physical resemblance. Sure, it can (and does) happen in some families, but not all, and it signifies nothing. My sister has olive skin, brown hair and eyes and is short. I am tall (for a woman), blue eyed, blonde with fair skin. And yet, neither of our parents had affairs. How shocking! :eek:

I did find it odd when I learned the my first words were apparently, “Shamone! Ahh HEE HEE!” Now it all makes sense.

Mama-say, mama-sah, mamkusah… (I have no idea how to spell any of that!) :smiley:

Well, I mean, I guess if you wanna be startin’ something, you’ve got to be startin’ something. . .

Here is a “baby daddy morph” of pictures of Dr. Arnie Klein and Debbie Rowe. The technology and software behind it is really quite sophisticated, it uses key facial feature matching and superimposition rather than Photoshop cut and paste. ( morphthing.com)

Compare them to these pictures of Paris and Prince and Prince and Paris.

I think they are brother and sister genetically, but Michael isn’t the father.

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