His hand doesn't look discoloured to me.
The second picture in concert, is more or less sweat and his makeup coming off due to sweat, there are no big white blotches.
The third picture where he is lying on the floor I can't see any signs of vitiligo at all.

And of course depigmentation is not recommended for people with no vitiligo but that doesn't stop people doing it. Too much plastic surgery is not recommended unless your a burns victim or so, but that didn't stop Michael going overboard did it?

You see I believe those brown blotches that we now see Michael with on his predominately white skin is a result of depigmentation. Depigmentation without having vitiligo would leave blotches and streaks of brown skin. And like any form of bleaching one needs to keep out of the sun, very similiar to vitiligo.

Also if one stops depigmentizing their skin the brown bits will begin to appear again, the problem is the skin will be very uneven, completely damage and look burnt. That's why most people who do go to the extreme with bleaching never stop and have a tendency of wearing thick, pale makeup because you can never get back your original skin tone the way it once was.
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Depigmentation without having vitiligo would leave blotches and streaks of brown skin.


how do you know this? show me a picture of this. Oh wait you Can't because the only people with mostly white skin and brown spots are people with vitiligo





so I guess all these people are people who don't have vitiligo but just decided to depigmentate.





You show me a picture in the initial stages of MJ "vitiligo" where he is predominately black with white blotches, which is when vitiligo really becomes obvious. I do know vitiligo is disease, well before MJ came out with it, I had seen black people with it, usually on their hands which makes it so obvious. Those that choose makeup to cover it up used makeup in their original colour tones, they didn't use shades 5 shades lighter than their original colour well before their whole bodies turnt white.

All the pictures your showing us to try and prove that Michael has vitiligo are pictures of him in the mid-90s where he has already turnt predominately white with a few brown patches, where the dipigmentatiztion has already taken place.

Also we have people within his own family contradicting his claims; Jermaine writing a song about his change of colour and Latoya claiming that there is no such disease in "their family". Now, I realise that Jermain and Latoya haven't always seen eye to eye with Michael, but I am sure they would realize that their is such disease in their family, yet they all come across so vague or practically contradict what he says.

Then you have his children, whose mothers were just baby carriers for MJ, regardless of whether he married them or not, all looking totally white. Although I must admit Blanket may be able to pass for hispanic but the first two haven't got an onuce of black blood in them. There is only so much coincidences one can believe in and the vitiligo story is one coincidence too far.

You show me a picture in the initial stages of MJ "vitiligo" where he is predominately black with white blotches, which is when vitiligo really becomes obvious. I do know vitiligo is disease, well before MJ came out with it, I had seen black people with it, usually on their hands which makes it so obvious. Those that choose makeup to cover it up used makeup in their original colour tones, they didn't use shades 5 shades lighter than their original colour well before their whole bodies turnt white.