thank you marrk.
it is sad 2 see those photos.

& they do NOT look tampered with 2 me...especially the 1st & 3rd.

ISN'T IT A SHAME,even if people dont fully believe he has this condition,they will poke fun at his expense.

got teased at school...the football club...wherever... by kids all the time 4 being overweight..
i used 2 be embarrassed 2 go out because my acne was severe.
i'd be like Michael...just ashamed... didn't want to get out of the house...

NOW...im sure i am not the only one here who has been given a hard time about some part of their appearance they did or didn't have control over...
imagine that ridicule at school by a heap of kids.
the embarrasment.
the humiliation.
the feeling that u r the only one in the world who loves you,& sometimes even doubting that much...

well in Michael's case...it isnt JUST the kids at school.
It is the entire world.

it isn't very nice is it

HotThang said:

ACTUALLY, he did NOT say he used creams to lighten his skin. He said he used make-up to cover it up, and BLEND in with his skin.

Purpleone4Eva said:

Oh yes he did...he said it was becoming too difficult to cover the discolorations with make-up.

SpcMs said:

Why couldn't they be patches remaining from skin lightening treatment in response to the alleged vitiligo?

Oprah: All right. Just recently, there was a story and I know one of your attorneys held a news conference, there was a story about you wanting a little white child to play you in a Pepsi commercial.
Michael: That is so stupid. That is the most ridiculous, horrifying story I've ever heard. It's crazy. Why, number one, it's my face as a child in the commercial, me when I was little, why would I want a white child to play me? I'm a black American, I am proud to be a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity. That's like you wanting an oriental person to play you as a child. Does that make sense?
Oprah: No.
Michael: So, please people, stop believing these horrifying stories.
Oprah: Okay, then let's go to the thing that is most discussed about you, that is the color of your skin is most obviously different than when you were younger, and so I think it has caused a great deal of speculation and controversy as to what you have done or are doing, are you bleaching your skin and is your skin lighter because you don't like being black?
Michael: Number one, as I know of, there is no such thing as skin bleaching, I have never seen it, I don't know what it is.
Oprah: Well they used to have those products, I remember growing up always hearing always use bleach and glow, but you have to have about 300,000 gallons.
Michael: Okay, but number one, this is the situation. I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of the skin, it's something that I cannot help. Okay. But when people make up stories that I don't want to be who I am it hurts me.
Oprah: So it is...
Michael: It's a problem for me that I can't control, but what about all the millions of people who sits out in the sun, to become darker, to become other than what they are, no one says nothing about that.
Oprah: So when did this start, when did your ... when did the color of your skin start to change?
Michael: Oh boy, I don't ... sometime after Thriller, around Off the Wall, Thriller, around sometime then.
Oprah: But what did you think?
Michael: It's in my family, my father said it's on his side. I can't control it, I don't understand, I mean, it makes me very sad. I don't want to go into my medical history because that is private, but that's the situation here.
Oprah: So okay, I just want to get this straight, you are not taking anything to change the color of your skin ...
Michael: Oh, God no, we tried to control it and using make-up evens it out because it makes blotches on my skin, I have to even out my skin.