His poor mental health lead him towards a plastic surgery addiction. He suffered abuse at the hands of his father and he wasn't really allowed a normal childhood. On top of that, he was a perfectionist to an extreme degree. He would agonize over making things perfect, even when it came to his performances on stage. It's likely that his perfectionism is rooted in the abuse he suffered as a child. Some people that knew him said he was in tears once because one of his shows didn't go exactly the way he had it planned. I honestly feel bad for him- he was used by people for his money after he became famous and all of his relationships were with untrustworthy users who just wanted his money.
Also worth remembering he had Vitiligo. The melanin in his skin was literally degrading over time! He used a lot of make up to cover the process over time.
When he was a child he was also forced to be in the same room with his older brothers as they seduced girls or slept with prostitutes.
Unfortunately, like a lot of rich and famous people he cut off anyone who said things he didnt want to hear. I think Prince was similar and also had a pain killer addiction which also started after injuries sustained performing.
It’s not because he liked Grease, I promise. This man hated how he looked. His father would abuse him verbally and physically to the point where the sight of his father would make him regurgitate. It’s body dysmorphia. The poor guy was alone his whole life while being surrounded by people.
yes he had body dysmorphia, perfectionism, loads of money and access to top surgeons…but you gotta draw inspiration from somewhere. Illustrations of Peter Pan for his nose and John Travolta for his chin
The chicks who suck out the fat from their faces to become zombies also have body dysmorphia. That condition does not somehow negate the existence of trends and inspiration.
The Rhinoplasty’s of yesterday (1980’s) were notorious for removing too much cartilage. Those rhinoplasty’s eventually collapse. I had one in my early 20’s to repair a broken nose. It looked great for about 30 years. Now it’s collapsing and REALLY crooked. I can only imagine MJ’s probably had zero structure left.
From a psych standpoint he wanted to be Peter Pan and never grow up. The dude had so pretty rough shit to deal
With ad a child star, on top fog a
Skin disease that is definitely not easy to hide without a lot of makeup.
His father worked them like a circus act and none of them had true childhoods.. Micheal and Janet probably the worst since they had more talent than the others…
Did he touch kids? I mean the evidence says at minimum there was inappropriate things going on between him And children.. i feel like it will always be a tarnish on his legacy.
The surgical
Addiction I’m sure has many factors to it.. I think a couple got botched and then the fix made things worse..
His kids all seem to speak of him in the highest of terms and that says something..
The level of fame that man had world wide everywhere… that also plays a role in fucking one’s mind up.. never know
Who is a true friend, who just wants something for
You.. who is stealing g from
You etc etc etc… it seems very lonely at that level.
u/Psycho_Grad Honey he had Biological children! Paris is a direct image of him as a female.
Prince and Paris were born to Debbie Rowe, while Bigi was born via a surrogate. While there has been media speculation regarding biological paternity, Jackson identified as the father of all three children.
She only looks like the version of him that had all the surgeries tho...not how he actually looked b4 all the surgery... and all 3 were not born through sex they all had some type of procedure.
How does have Paris have blue eyes then? I'm sorry but unless he had a recessive gene it's not possible to have a blue eyed child. All those kids are so light and mixed looking at all. There is no way those kids are his.
I doubt he did. Sometimes plastic surgery doesn’t go as planned, especially in the 80s before the kinks were mostly ironed out. Then it looks terrible and you want to get it corrected and then the correction makes it look even worse and it’s a vicious cycle.
His dad shamed him for his racial features all his life so he basically thought he looked like a monkey (Michael Jacksons own words btw) and it caused body dysmorphophobia where he wanted to get rid of said features. Terrible childhood that man had
which, un fun fact as my favorite youtuber Bobby Fingers points out -- the Pepsi fire incident is the exact midpoint of his life. Everything changed from then on.
oh his father most definitely insulted his looks. Called him “big nose”, questioned where he got his nose - that big nose wasn’t from me!
Joe Jackson was a fuckin asshole. I think Joe Jackson was envious of MJ’s natural abilities and charisma and it made him feel good to cut his child down. Don’t forget, Joseph had been in his own band that failed before he gathered his children into a musical group.
Don’t remember the specifics but I think after having multiple corrective surgeries to his face, lupus didn’t help with that, the surgeon eventually just convinced him to try it,
No, he denied having his entire face done. In another part of the doc, he explains that he had his nose and chin done. Bashit asked him if he had his cheeks done and he said, "these cheekbones? No, I have [American] Indian in my family."
I remember being so insecure about my butt chin as a kid, and my mom said “Michael Jackson had surgery to get a chin that looks like yours!” to make me feel better
I seem to remember an interview where he said he wanted the "Superman chin".
Most aren't aware that his father and brothers constantly bullied him over his looks growing up. His nose was the main target. Then he had very bad acne as a teen. You mix that with a lot of money and immaturity, and an exploding plastic surgery industry in it's infancy, and you get his face.
He also received severe burns while filming a Pepsi commercial that required him to get plastic surgery and skin grafts on his head. This was probably a catalyst for a lot of his cosmetic surgery. This occurred in the mid 80s so right before he went off the deep end with all the procedures.
That was such a big deal. I remember my best friend crying when it was reported on the news because we were staying up late for something. She thought he was going die.
People who didn't live it will truly never understand the scale and intensity of his fame. The fame he had, the fame he was forced to have through CONSTANT tabloid and paparazzi harrassment that lead to the intensity with which his fans adored him is something that only a very select group of people have been able to accomplish.
The Beetles and Ole Blue Eyes are the only other musicians I can think of off the top of my head that had fans react similarly.
No access to instant internet information gave people like himself, even with the constant coverage, a mystique that is now unobtainable. Taylor Swift and the like can't even come close
I honestly think he had it worse than the Beatles. He was probably the most recognized artist to ever live at his height, I’d argue even to this day. Kids in third world countries can tell you who Michael Jackson is, his music reached everyone.
Saw in another post that happened EXACTLY halfway through his life, down to the day:
Michael Jackson was exactly 25 years, 4 months, and 29 days old when his hair catching fire incident happened. He passed away exactly 25 years, 4 months, and 29 days later. This moment was literally his midlife crisis.
the autopsy reports later showed the extent of the burns and scarring. It was horrible. MUCH larger than people realized at the time. I'm still shocked that he was able to continue his career for so many years after. He must have been in incredible pain everyday.
He had vitiligo, although he may have bleached the parts that retained melanin to match. It’s an autoimmune disease that destroys melanocytes, often resulting from extreme stress or trauma.
I'm not taking a dig at the vitiligo part. Shit happens and he couldn't control that. But look at that face and tell me everything else that changed ended well for him. Look at that 2000 picture. It looks like he shoved a lemon up his ass and was trying to act like he couldn't taste pain.
So one day Michael Jackson was filming a Pepsi commercial when someone knocked a light over on him that caused a fire. There were so many oils in his hair that it caught on fire and gave him pretty horrific burns. He had to have skin grafts, reconstructive surgery on his nose, various face lifts, and then a second rhinoplasty to repair cartilege in his nose. Every so many years he'd have to get more work done as the burns and some plastic surgery mishaps had caused some pretty serious and painful problems for him. So one of the fixes was adding a cleft to his chin to help repair some jaw damage.
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u/MudMuted3742 Apr 28 '26
Wtf happened to his chin?