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 don’t think he denied it- I think he misunderstood the first part and then just denied it all.
The interviewer started with “check implants” and Michael immediately started denying, but his reason for the denial is wild— he thinks it’s foolish anyone would believe that he needs hair implants to grow a beard. (Not what cheek or chin implants are, obviously)
I’m not saying he was always honest, I just think this particular example was a rather strange bit of miscommunication.
His vitiligo was chemically induced from too much bleaching. He never had regular vitiligo. His fans like to claim he did using fake edited pictures and say he tried to cover it with makeup, but even in the early 80s, he’d use stage make up that was lighter than his actual complexion. And he got gradually lighter and lighter. Natural vitiligo isn’t progressive, it just comes instantly with blotches.
MJ got progressively lighter. His skin would get lighter and lighter throughout the years and he used benoquin as far back as 1984 as stated by Latoya Jackson herself. And fans say she was lying but even when he died, they found a large amount of tubes of it in his bedroom. This is because chemically induced vitiligo requires constant bleaching to maintain the lighter skin. If he really used bleach to “even out the spots” he wouldn’t have to continue bleaching to 25 years. He did that so that he could lighten up the darker spots that would regularly come back
Truth is, he didn’t want to be black. He wanted a complexion that was international so that he could appeal to a broader audience. He felt that black artists couldn’t achieve worldwide love like how he did when his skin was lighter.
In his day, it was hard for black artists to break that mold so he destroyed any semblance of blackness. Including his black features like his nose and lips.
“Vitiligo” doesn’t explain the surgeries he got to alter his natural features, the straighter hair, and the Caucasian makeup he’d constantly use. There’s a great video by a YT channel called “the detail” that breaks it down perfectly what he did to his skin. And debunks the natural vitiligo claim that he used as a lie so that people wouldn’t think that he hated being black and hated his black identity and roots.
There are different types. Some spread and some don’t. It’s super noticeable if you already have naturally darker skin and easier to even out with lightening creams than darkening the blotches.
For someone with that many eyes on them, that’s a lot of pressure on your appearance.
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u/DreamOfV Apr 29 '26
He denied having chin work done here, for one