How did Michael Jackson change different skin colors?
I am a really huge Michael Jackson fan and i am so depressed now he's died:( but my friends keep arguing to me about how they don't like him and how stupid he was to change skin color might you be able to help me and tell me how he had changed skin color please X R.I.P Michael Jackson you will always be alive ! and you will always be the king of pop !
Other - Arts & Humanities - 51 Answers - 2009-07-03 10:08:06

Best Answer
I appreciate that you are a michael jackson fan and you don't just jump to conclusions like he bleached his skin because he was ashamed of being african american. Ive done research and here are my answers: First: michael, sometime around the release of the Thriller album is diagnosed with a skin disease named vitilgo. It started on his hand, which is why he wore the famous white glove. Vitiligo is a disease that destroys the pigmentation(color) in the skin. this disease can be cured, unless it takes over more than 50 % of the body. Vitiligo took over almost 70% of Michael. So, he could have let it go, and looked like a dalmation of the rest of his life. he would have looked mostly white, with patches of black. the other option was to bleach himself the rest of the way. Since bleaching black is impossible, he obligated to bleach himself white. So, YES! michael jackson did indeed bleach himself white! but for medical reasons! not because hes a crazy loon like everyone thinks!

All Answers
Answer 1
He used the mortoky-butoky. Just kidding he had a skin disease.
2009-07-03 10:10:58

Answer 2
He bleached his skin. Hoped this helped.
2009-07-03 10:11:25

Answer 3
He didn't "change his skin color" he had vitiligo a disorder that causes depigmentation in patches of skin.
2009-07-03 10:11:26

Answer 4
He used sun block with a 250 rating
2009-07-03 10:11:28

Answer 5
he had a skin disease that changed it for him it wasn't a choice any spots that were left dark, he may have used chemicals (either pills or a cream) to even out the skin tone.
2009-07-03 10:11:51

Answer 6
He had a skin condition, some kind of skin cancer i think and so it made him lighter and got white patches all over of his skin. and yes, dont worry, ive been constantly crying, he was such a good man and a total legend. his music will live on for ever
2009-07-03 10:12:21

Answer 7
he didn't intentionally change is skin color, he has a disease where he loses pigment in his skin. and he never bleached his skin those are just rumors.
2009-07-03 10:12:21

Answer 8
Well the only reason he got his skin bleached was because he had a diease that he gets white splotches on his skin, so he descided that might as well bleach my skin so it matches.. So its not his fault, he had 2.. P.S Your friends suck! MJ is amazing!
2009-07-03 10:12:22

Answer 9
music producers and coreographers scared him white.
2009-07-03 10:12:22

Answer 10
Seriously, make up. He got tooo many white make up on him. I wonder why he don't want to be with his orignal skin.
2009-07-03 10:12:25

Answer 11
apparently he had vitiligo and lupus which causes the skin pigment to discolor but some have argued that he didnt...
2009-07-03 10:12:31

Answer 12
I'm not sure but my friends grandad had the same thing as MJ so didn't get it from surgery it was some kind of immune thing to do with sunlight.
2009-07-03 10:12:35

Answer 13
He started developing a skin condition called Vitiligo
2009-07-03 10:12:58

Answer 14
okay so he had a skin disease that makes patches of your skin white. im not sure what its called. rather than looking that way he decided to bleach the rest of his face to match. r.i.p. micheal jackson.
2009-07-03 10:13:08

Answer 15
He didn't - not willingly, anyway. He suffered from a condition called vitiligo, which gradually will lighten the skin by depigmentation (it tends to happen in patches). He simply applied make-up to match the skin tone and keep it uniform as his skin lightened. Vitiligo can affect people of any race, but it's particularly noticeable on people with darker skin. It'll appear as pinkish patches, usually, compared to the surrounding skin.
2009-07-03 10:14:05

Answer 16
Go to Youtube & look up HOW ? Did Michael Jackson skin turn white ? It explains the disease he had, Vitilgo
2009-07-03 10:15:49

Answer 17
idk when he first died the news said he had Vitiligo (a skin disease) he blamed for his skin lightening.
2009-07-03 10:16:30

Answer 18
he did it becusz of his skin disease :D Nd I think he bleached himself xoxoxo God blesz
2009-07-03 10:17:07

Answer 19
According to wikipedia, "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." There are rumors that he bleached his skin to hide the blotches but these haven't been confirmed.
2009-07-03 10:18:17

Answer 20
Bleach?
2009-07-03 10:34:17

Answer 21
1. Vitiligo. A skin disease. Appearance: patches of light colour. 2. Probably did something so it'd stay even. Whatever it was. It appears he may have used makeup and maybe bleaching (permanent, unlike makeup which fades etc considering he had such extreme dance routines). Celebrities will do whatever it takes to look good/clean (makeup/Botox/implants/facelifts/wigs/hair extensions/insane platform heels/airbrushing... the list is endless). Therefore you could say that, in a showbiz way, it wasn't optional. His music is da bomb. Can't argue that. Make your friends listen to all of it! XD
2009-07-03 11:15:35

Answer 22
So am I. I absolutely love him. I cried for days after he died, and I still tear up when I watch the news converage. He didn't do that purposely. He had a skin condition called vitiligo. It's a condition in which you have pigmented blotches all over. His dermetologist gave him a cream that evened out the blotches in his skin by lightening his skin color. Michael was proud to be African American. He would never intentionally lighten his skin. Michael was unquestionablly brilliant. He was a remarkable person, and will never be forgotten. I still get cold chills when I think of the talent and tragedy. He will live forever, in more ways than one. In his beautiful music, in heaven, and in the hearts and minds of millions of fans worldwide.
2009-07-03 18:30:58

Answer 23
I appreciate that you are a michael jackson fan and you don't just jump to conclusions like he bleached his skin because he was ashamed of being african american. Ive done research and here are my answers: First: michael, sometime around the release of the Thriller album is diagnosed with a skin disease named vitilgo. It started on his hand, which is why he wore the famous white glove. Vitiligo is a disease that destroys the pigmentation(color) in the skin. this disease can be cured, unless it takes over more than 50 % of the body. Vitiligo took over almost 70% of Michael. So, he could have let it go, and looked like a dalmation of the rest of his life. he would have looked mostly white, with patches of black. the other option was to bleach himself the rest of the way. Since bleaching black is impossible, he obligated to bleach himself white. So, YES! michael jackson did indeed bleach himself white! but for medical reasons! not because hes a crazy loon like everyone thinks!
2009-07-03 20:11:33

Answer 24
Michael Jackson suffered from a skin disease called vitiligo. He has had this conditions since the early 1980's. If you look a some picture of him, you can see the blotches on his chest and arms (in the music video for "They don't really care about us"). He may have lightened some of his skin, it's not as scandalous as it sounds, he wanted to keep everything even, which i don't think is such an extraordinary thing. That's what happened to his skin.
2009-07-04 00:24:07

Answer 25
i loved mj too, he had a rare skin disease I belive, and he had to bleach is skin, i love him no matter what skin color he was, rip mj, don't listen to ur friends who don't like him becasue their are billions who do love him.
2009-07-04 01:11:44

Answer 26
he had vertiligo, and it changes skin clour jurastically
2009-07-04 10:22:24

Answer 27
He had the Auto-Immune disease called Vitiligo. The disease is where your body attacks its own Melanocytes (pigment producing cells in the skin) Since the disease often first affects skin areas around the joints and the openings of the body and also it vairies widely on how fast the disease will depigment the skin, he first wore one glove to cover the spots, then went to two gloves, then I believe he had pigment removed from the areas exposed outside of clothing so that people would not see the stark differences in the skin tones from the disease. I have had Vitiligo since I was 5 years old, I was the first in my family to have the disease, it is a genetic disorder that is hereditary and it is in your genes from birth but may not show up for many, many years, although I have had the disease for 40 years now, I am still not completely depigmented. My hands are totally white, my lips and corners of my mouth lack pigment in certain areas. Skin that has no pigment is subject to UV rays and skin cancer is a huge concern since melanocytes protect the skin from UV rays. My cousin was in his 20's when he got Vitiligo, he was completely white in 2 years time, he only has a couple of splotches of pigmented skin left on his body. His mother has Vitiligo (not related to me but her husband is my Mom's brother), My cousin likely got the genetic double wammy by having the genes on both sides of his family, My mom's other brother got Vitiligo at around 55 yrs of age. Both of my sons worry that they too will get Vitiligo....who wants to go through life spotted. I don't mind being spotted and I often times forget I have it until in the summer when I am tanned and I look in the mirror and see my spots or the constant stares I get from just about everyone. I don't blame Michael for wanting to change the actual spots but it could be he had the disease as bad as my cousin and didn't have to do anything to even up his skin. It is too bad he was not an advocate for the Vitiligo Foundation, some of his money could have gone a long way to do genetic research on the disease and perhaps to find out what genes "trigger" the genes to start the process. Since there is a wide variance in the time of onset from one individual to the next, perhaps through genetic research of the genes they could at least keep those late onset people from getting the disease. This may very well be why he did not "father" his own children. It may also be why he wrote the song about it making no difference if you are black or white.
2009-07-04 14:01:18

Answer 28
ok i get very annoyed at people who say he had vitiligo. he didn't. my brother has vitiligo and he has patches of skin that are whiter that his normal skin on all of the places where he has joints (the place where muscles join together) some poeple get patches on their face, but not over there whole body!!!! micheal jackson only said he had vitiligo as an excuse. he got plastic surgery. i think michael jackson is a legend and was a fantasric singer of some great songs. and i hope he rests in peace, but the fact remains that he did have surgery to change his skin colour and that he had vitiligo, it a complete lie.
2009-07-04 22:08:15

Answer 29
So much bad rumors were placed about Michael jackson. Rumors will still spread about him. Michael Jackson himself said he had a skin diesorder called Vitiligo. You can see two youtube videos about it the frist video would be about clips abd the second is in his words.
2009-07-04 22:08:38

Answer 30
HE DIN'T CHANGE HIS SKIN COLOUR! He had a skin disease called vitiligo (vitil-EYE-go) which is a degenerative pigmentation disease. He also had lupus, which contributed to the changing colour of his skin. When you look at some of his concert videos, and some home videos on youtube, you can see the patches of brown, and almost white-porcelain on his skin. by the way. your friends are total ignorant IDIOTS.
2009-07-05 00:30:58

Answer 31
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2009-07-05 09:10:19

Answer 32
He had a skin disease called Vitiligo. This disease makes your skin lighter. In the early stages of the disease, his make up artist tried to cover the white patches and spots with make up so no one would notice, but eventually, the disease made so much of his skin white that it was too hard to cover all of it.
2009-07-05 14:40:01

Answer 33
Michael Jackson had a rare skin condition called Vitiligo. If any of you doubt that then go to the following links that prove that he did. The first one is a document explaining it and the second is a video on YTube that shows Michael without makeup to cover it up when it first started. I have the condition myself and it's a horrible thing to live with mainly because other people don't understand it and make fun of you. http://floacist.wordpress.com/2007/06/12/full-information-on-vitiligo-michael-jackson/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15TSEKXXIvI Just cope and paste the links in your browser or just click on the links if you don't have popups disabled.
2009-07-05 17:43:16

Answer 34
If your friends are judging someone based on skin color then you are hanging out with racists. Michael wanted to be lighter because he did not want to look like the "Man in the Mirror" which was his father. He took a prescription drug called an "enzyme inhibitor" which blocks the biosynthesis of melanin. This made him become lighter. Michael Jackson would always say that when a white person goes to the beach or the tanning salon to get brown, no body judges them, no body shoots them down because they like being darker. Michael Jackson was always UNFAIRLY picked on by the media. Your friends are fools for not seeing beyond skin color. His music is genius. When they mature, they might be wise enough to get Michael's message which was love.
2009-07-05 19:03:02

Answer 35
DONT LISTEN TO ANY1 WHO SAYS HE WANTED TO BE WHITE!!! SERIOUSLY PEOPLE R SO IGNORANT N CRUEL...HE HAD A SKIN DESEASE CALLED VITILIGO...THIS IS WHEN THE PERSON GETS WHITE SPOTS ALL OVER THEIR BODY...FOR AWHILE HE TRIED TO HIDE HIS SKIN CONDITION..CUZ IT LOOKS BAD...SO HE BLEACHED HIS SKIN...ONLY TO EVEN OUT HIS SKIN..HE WAS SO STRONGE..IF I HAD THAT SKIN DESEASE I WOULD HAVE SUICIDED..THE LINKS BELOW R MORE INFO ON MJ'S SKIN DESEAS CALLED VITILIGO
2009-07-05 19:36:25

Answer 36
he was the king of shit. i hope he rots in HELL!! so long micheal. LOL
2009-07-05 20:19:22

Answer 37
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15TSEKXXIvI Well, he had Vitiligo, and Lupus. Even though Lupus most of the time makes your skin Darker, he must have had a more serious case of Vitiligo. He later got a procedure that most people with Vitiligo get.It's called Depigmenation, and it even out the rest of the skin. If you watch the video above it shows pictures of his skin turning white and pale. It is very sad, that people believed The Tabloids before Michael. He even tried to wear make up to even it out, but I guess it got so bad, that Make up no longer covered it. He also wore the glove to cover up the patches of the disease. May his soul rest in peace. He was such an Angel!:) <33333
2009-07-05 23:11:04

Answer 38
He had Vitiligo. It causes white spot's on the skin. He didn't want that, so there's a treatment that help's with that, but the only way to make it seem like he didn't have it was to make the skin white. And I feel bad because people were ignorant like usual and bashed him for something that's not even his fault. Maybe your friend's need to do some research before they bash him.
2009-07-06 01:19:39

Answer 39
It really saddens me that I believed that lie about this skin being bleached. Micheal spent his whole lie trying to ignore the press, and all the naysayers. He was given all these horrible nicknames. I am so glad that he is finally at peace. His whole life has been nothing but turmoil. Please try to remember him for all his many talents. He was a beautiful person. If you notice,he never cursed, acted a fool or anything in retaliation. He was always the most gracious,soft spoken human being. I just feel my heart tug when I realize that he is gone from us forever. REST IN PEACE MICHAEL JACKSON. The world was a better place for you having been here for this short time. I will address the lies too, I never believed that Micheal EVER hurt a child. He was very naive and trusting letting these snakes into his life. He only loved children because they saw the world with clear eyes. The world was wrong for all its crimes against him. I just wanted to say my piece. He is with GOD/ALLAH now. Bless you angel
2009-07-06 03:02:06

Answer 40
GOD!!! he had skin disease!!!! his face was burned during a commercial(3RD DEGREE BURN!!!) stop saying bad things about him!!! let him rest!!! hes a good guy for heavens sake!!! watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7RDCDLLIm8 after you watch all ten watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvhwWDCV9Bo&feature=related
2009-07-06 06:22:09

Answer 41
Plastic surgery duh he was a drug adict which kinda helped he was also burned and they made his skin white......michael Jackson that is all everyone hears about WHO CARES he's dead.....plus he did it to himself
2009-07-06 08:17:50

Answer 42
Michael Jackson was tortured for so many untruths, One was about him changing his skin colour to white The reason was the disease he had called vitiligo a disorder that causes patches of skin. There are lots of african americans that suffer from this and here are some pictures to explain in more detail http://www.bio.davidson.edu/Courses/Immunology/Students/Spring2003/Leese/Vitiligo.jpg RIP MIchael www.mjjforums.com
2009-07-06 09:57:10

Answer 43
He had vitiligo which causes discoloration in the skin pigment. Which is why you sometimes see that he wore tape on his fingers (they soon became a fashion statement afterwards]. He did bleach his skin but only because he didn't want to walk around with white patches all over him.
2009-07-06 11:32:05

Answer 44
Ya I personal don't know why he did that, I dont really beleive he had the disease, because Ok, if he wanted to even his skin to be white why did he then changed his nose, and obviously he did not father them kids, I personal think he looked cute when he was black, but any how I still love him so much
2009-07-06 12:03:45

Answer 45
Cuz he's a boss
2009-07-06 12:58:07

Answer 46
michael didn't change his skin Color his skin condition did vittiligo ause his skin to go from black to white he coulnt conrol this and it was hard for michael.RIP MICHAEL YOU ARE A GENIUS AND UR LEGACY WILL LIVE ON FOREVER GOD BLESS xx
2009-07-06 13:25:35

Answer 47
He had vitiligo which caused his skin to change colour in the sun. That is why he always had a black umbrella if he ever went out as i would block the sun from getting to him. I just hope he is happy in heaven and RIP Michael Jakson
2009-07-06 15:19:31

Answer 48
Michael Jackson had a skin condition called vitiligo. You can learn mor about it on you tube. Here's the URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6xJlyJgfS8
2009-07-06 18:38:35

Answer 49
Thoughts on U.S. Congressman's call to stop coverage of Child Molester, Pedophile and Pervert Michael Jackson? http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkJYI_M9SeO14ZwlaznUBbfsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090706210225AAt1gLM
2009-07-06 21:10:13

Answer 50
it's Vitiligo. A skin disease
2009-07-07 00:22:52