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Did Michael Jackson bleach his skin or did he have a type of disease?

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Did Michael Jackson bleach his skin or did he have a type of disease?

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Well I’m not sure if this directly answers your question, but I have no doubt that he did, in fact, bleach his skin. There is no disease that causes the skin all over the body to progressively lighten over time. There is a genetic disorder in which some skin cells do not produce melanin and presents itself as patches of very white skin in various parts of the body–it’s called Vitiligo–and some fans believe his bleaching was to mask the appearance of this condition. I call BS on this, because even if he had this condition, it did not appear on any of the parts of the skin we saw of him from his childhood as part of the Jackson 5 (that is, his face, neck, and arms), so it seems like that excuse is weak. What would be the reason to go to such lengths to bleach skin to mask the appearance of vitiligo if it were only on a part of the body hidden by clothing? And given his addiction to plastic surgery, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if he did it only to look less African American.