lopez568 said:

morningsong said:

It's InTouch, aren't they the ones that broke the news on the suicide note?

And it's photoshopped, looks like one of those Team America puppets, with the big head and tiny body.

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yeah in his last Pic didnt he have sunglasses on??

fanoftheman said:

fanoftheman said:

morningsong said:

It's InTouch, aren't they the ones that broke the news on the suicide note?

And it's photoshopped, looks like one of those Team America puppets, with the big head and tiny body.

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yeah in his last Pic didnt he have sunglasses on??

Oh I have no idea which is the "real" last picture. I just know this is InTouch another one of those tabloid mags. The same one who plastered all over the place that there was a suicide note found AFTER is was proven there was no suicide note.

morningsong said:

morningsong said:

It's InTouch, aren't they the ones that broke the news on the suicide note?

And it's photoshopped, looks like one of those Team America puppets, with the big head and tiny body.

Of course the pic is real, here it is from another angle. Photoshopped.....come on.

He looks perfectly fine in this pic as well, and guess what, Prince doesn't appear in public unless he thinks he looks fine too.

And here he is a few days before the Atlanta concerts.....still looks good.

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leadline said:

See the woman dressed in the green top? She's a member of a Prince FB group I'm also in:

Dee Dee Knudtson: I'm disgusted how the media twists everything. I was there, that is ME in the green in front of the stage. He LOOKED bad! Also, it say's this was his FINAL PERFORMANCE, he did NOT perform. He spoke to us just briefly to show off his new piano and guitar.

petalthecat said:

leadline said:

Of course the pic is real, here it is from another angle. Photoshopped.....come on.

He looks perfectly fine in this pic as well, and guess what, Prince doesn't appear in public unless he thinks he looks fine too.

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He does actually look thinner on the front angled pic than the one taken from behind. Looks like the photos been elongated slightly.

And if that is the case, the photo was made to look that way in order to make someone who isnt sickly, look sickly.

blondie1147 said:

I've known of people to lose weight from taking the pain pills. I don't know the reasoning behind it. I guess they just got to where they didn't eat, but I guess it's possible.

They cut your appetite so you don't feel hungry. If you want to keep your weight, you have to force yourself to eat. Or a kind yet hard ass friend/spouse makes you.

Jessica55 said:

blondie1147 said:

I've known of people to lose weight from taking the pain pills. I don't know the reasoning behind it. I guess they just got to where they didn't eat, but I guess it's possible.

They cut your appetite so you don't feel hungry. If you want to keep your weight, you have to force yourself to eat. Or a kind yet hard ass friend/spouse makes you.

This is very true.

slowlywiltingflower said:

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leadline said:

Prince was always skinny due to his frame size, but he looks really skinny here and just unhealthy. U can see it in his face I wish somehow that his fans couldve helped him work through all this or at least be comfortable. I wouldve volunteered to take care of him...he meant that much to me. I hope he is at peace.

The basketball pic he looks unhealthy too not to mention he has a long sleeve shirt on, a turtleneck and gloves. He was either really cold/anemic or something wasnt right.

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One observation here...Prince's arms were always healthy and defined. In all his last pictures his arms are so small almost frail. Yes one changes as you age, but generally when someone is ill I can see it in their facial features first....the nurse in me

I have not jumped on the "he was sick" bandwagon, but as soon as I saw this - I thought wow - he is so tiny his head looks too big (and I'm not talking about the fro) it is the ratio of his face to his body. Could be the angle too. I was privledged to see him at the Sydney Opera House and admit I thought then in real life he looked thinner - but I did not think he was ill at that time, but I see a difference in this pic. This has upset me quite a bit to be honest

but if this photo has been photoshopped then maybe that is why his face looks bigger?

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nursev said:

I'm 5'2 and my weight fluctuates between 115 to 118lbs. Back when I met Prince in early to mid 2000 he was around the same weight as me, if anything he probably had a couple of lbs on me. He looked healthy and well toned.

When I get sick, my appetite decreases and I drop down to about 112lbs at the lightest. It's very obvious to others who know me well that I've lost weight.

That being said, for someone who is 5'2, 112lbs is not an unhealthy weight; they only appear unhealthy because you are so use to seeing them a few lbs heavier normally. Then again, losing weight could stem from being sick, aging or could be stress related.

Basically, what I'm trying to say is, yes there was obviously an issue there but he wasn't dreadfully underweight as a lot of people made him out to be.

In the basketball pix, he's courtside at the Oracle arena which is indoors and is not cold yet he's swathed. There's a video of him walking to his seat (they focused on him during the game) and he looked so frail I almost didn't recognize him.

The captions in this sad video are not funny but you can see him try to get up and use his cane and he's completely bent over and he looks like he's in horrendous pain. As noted in the comments. This was 2008. https://www.youtube.com/w...mjFJqpctQ.

I guess this vid is more from 1997/1998.

2olskool4u said:

My first impression when I saw him at the aftershows in 2007 was how extremely small he was. Before you saw this man, you have a certain idea of his size but seeing it in real is another thing. And yes, he was naturally very thin too. Photos always make people look bigger than they actually are in real. In real life, he was an extremely thin man. Then after a few shows and standing close to him, I sort of got used to it. But when we held hands on stage, I remember thinking how thin and delicate his hand and fingers felt. So like others have said, when you are that thin already, it doesn't take that much weight loss to make you look abnormally skinny. My mother is a perfect example of that, she has always been very thin and petite and now - with ageing - looks almost too skinny and often people enquire if she is ok, even insinuating to me that she looks ill, when in fact she is perfectly healthy (she has regular check ups and everything is fine). Having said that, and after hanging around Prince a little back then, I can tell in comparison that progressively over the past 2 years or so, he had a certain look in his face and eyes mostly that just wasn't his usual self. He'd always had that trademark alertness in his eyes and always seemed so focused on things, up until 2 years ago, when he seemed to have gradually started losing that usual edge and spark of his. And that happened rapidly too. There is no denying.

nursev said:

Guitarhero said:

Knew i should not of looked am out of here.

Hold tight, GH. You were probably thinking about him never getting to play that guitar. Me, too.

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amatthews said:

The bass is still in its initial stages and not near completion and no led frets so not sure where that idea came from. Simon at Gus guitar workshop is round the corner from me and we have been talking a lot about his last guitar etc. I have photos of the bass as it is!!

The video interview he did showed him working on the bass, and he said he intended to put lights along the fret. That's where it came from.

love2thenines2003 said:

https://scontent-cdg2-1.x...e=5854DCDB So Sad [Edited 9/1/16 11:30am]

He doesn't look healthy to me here at all. And any fans from that party that said he looked "fine" to them has just as much of a blind eye as all the people that were around him for the past few months that didn't see him deteriorate right before them.