Michael Jackson in 1984, two years before he was diagnosed with vitiligo. He had a third rhinoplasty several months priorMichael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American musician and entertainer who spent over forty years in the public eye, from being a child star with the Jackson 5 to becoming a successful solo artist. During his career, his changing appearance, health concerns, and diet were well documented. Up until the mid-1980s, Jackson's natural changing appearance through puberty and age garnered minimal media attention. However, by the mid-1980s the media believed that Jackson's appearance was being altered by something more than the aging process.
His skin tone gradually lightened, his nose and chin narrowed, and he lost weight. These changes progressively continued over the next twenty years. The lightened skin tone was initially due to the diseases vitiligo and lupus—with which Jackson was diagnosed in 1986—and the singer's personal choice to cover the blotched skin with make-up, something many sufferers do. Certain skin treatments for these conditions further lightened Jackson's skin. His altered facial features were the result of cosmetic surgery. By 1990, those close to the singer say he had undergone approximately ten procedures.
Jackson and some of his siblings state that, as adolescents, they were physically and emotionally abused by their father. In 2003, his father admitted to the BBC that he had whipped Jackson as a child. Jackson rarely spoke about the abuse of his childhood, but, in several interviews during which the subject was raised, he became very emotional and admitted that he would vomit before meeting his father. In court documents, some mental health experts have expressed the opinion that Jackson was psychologically a regressed ten-year-old. Some medical professionals have also publicly stated that he suffered from body dysmorphic disorder.
Jackson's appearance would also be altered by health problems, weight loss, stress and natural aging. Jackson decided to lose weight and became a vegetarian, using the term "a dancer's body" to describe his goal. He became dependent on prescription drugs and on one occasion he went into rehabilitation; drug use also affected his appearance. It was during periods of turmoil in Jackson's life that his weight and drug problems would resurface, often at the same time.
Jackson died on June 25, 2009. The cause of death is still unclear.
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