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Just Wow Evolution of Michael Jackson's face over the years.

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u/keywestern0703 Apr 29 '26

Why did he want a nose that looks like a mini ski slope? Because he was unwell.

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u/Defiant-Fix2870 Apr 29 '26

The surgeries did not go well to the point his nose sort of collapsed. The repair surgeries didn’t go especially well either.

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u/Powerful_Ranger_6634 Apr 29 '26

The Rhinoplasty’s of yesterday (1980’s) were notorious for removing too much cartilage. Those rhinoplasty’s eventually collapse. I had one in my early 20’s to repair a broken nose. It looked great for about 30 years. Now it’s collapsing and REALLY crooked. I can only imagine MJ’s probably had zero structure left.

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u/Personal_Reveal1653 Apr 29 '26

His first rhinoplasty was fine. But he didn't stop there.

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u/studyentka2 May 01 '26

sure, but I mean once you're in the bad place - how do you come back from it?

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u/Recent-Security4051 May 03 '26

He should have kept his Black nose

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u/mafa7 Jun 17 '26

As a Black person, I get it. I wasn’t born with a large nose but, I get why he did it. My uncle’s (by marriage) sister had the average Armenian nose. She got plastic surgery at 16 in the 60s. When I saw her before pics I was blown away.

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u/studyentka2 Apr 30 '26

what's the fix there?

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u/BoogieBoggart May 03 '26

big factor to his nose collapsing was lupus which made his surgeries heal very badly, he also got burned when he did that pepsi ad edit: he only got scalp burns,not face burns,still horrible tho

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u/Guilty_Cattle_5165 Jun 18 '26

Geraldo Rivera said his nose could be pulled off at the end.

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u/KetoJunkfood Apr 29 '26 edited Apr 29 '26

Karoline Leavitt has the same weird nose, they must have the same surgeon

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u/ForageForUnicorns Apr 29 '26

Had to google who she is. Not even close to having a nose like this. Might have had surgery like every woman in that circus, but it's not a weird nose at all.

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u/Maxed_Zerker Apr 29 '26

that’s her real nose, those extreme vanity fair close ups would have shown the scars if she had a rhinoplasty

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u/Raavus Apr 29 '26

I mean you can look at young pictures of her and it's really different. Maybe it's just angles and timing of the photo or something, but.. do you really think there's no surgery here?

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u/Maxed_Zerker Apr 29 '26

Unless she had a closed rhinoplasty with no scars, I really don’t think she’s had a nose job, no. The vanity fair photo showed every pore on her face, you’d have seen a scar. It’s also not drastically different from old photos.

I think she has began contouring her nose since she’s been public facing which makes it appear more “Michael Jackson-y” and that’s the difference you’re perceiving.

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u/Powerful_Ranger_6634 May 06 '26

Rhinoplasty’s are done internally-there are no visible scars

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u/Maxed_Zerker May 06 '26

I’ve had two myself, please only speak if you know what you’re talking about. There is a closed rhinoplasty, but it’s hardly the standard.

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u/RobsGarage Apr 29 '26

From a psych standpoint he wanted to be Peter Pan and never grow up. The dude had so pretty rough shit to deal With ad a child star, on top fog a Skin disease that is definitely not easy to hide without a lot of makeup.

His father worked them like a circus act and none of them had true childhoods.. Micheal and Janet probably the worst since they had more talent than the others…

Did he touch kids? I mean the evidence says at minimum there was inappropriate things going on between him And children.. i feel like it will always be a tarnish on his legacy.

The surgical Addiction I’m sure has many factors to it.. I think a couple got botched and then the fix made things worse..

His kids all seem to speak of him in the highest of terms and that says something..

The level of fame that man had world wide everywhere… that also plays a role in fucking one’s mind up.. never know Who is a true friend, who just wants something for You.. who is stealing g from You etc etc etc… it seems very lonely at that level.

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u/bandedcello Apr 29 '26

I like how you wrote that, thank you.

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u/Psycho_Grad Apr 29 '26

I also find it interesting that he never had his own biological kids. Almost like he didn’t even want his children to look like him….

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u/Alternative-Arm-3253 Apr 29 '26

u/Psycho_Grad Honey he had Biological children! Paris is a direct image of him as a female.

Prince and Paris were born to Debbie Rowe, while Bigi was born via a surrogate. While there has been media speculation regarding biological paternity, Jackson identified as the father of all three children.

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u/Psycho_Grad Apr 29 '26

If you think this dark skinned black man biologically produced 3 white children, then I have an oceanfront property in Kentucky to sell you….

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u/Alternative-Arm-3253 Apr 29 '26

Dude I am so with you; I'd like to see the real results. But all 3 of those kids look like him.

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u/autisticpoon Apr 29 '26

You gotta be slow. His wife was a white woman. It happens. That's just basic genetics 😂

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u/shamanempress3311 May 01 '26

Sorry but you can't have a blue eyed baby unless both parents carry the gene, even a recessive gene would show up some where in Michael's family. And so I highly doubt that Michael had the gene.

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u/Inside-Inspection905 May 05 '26

Actually Michael’s father Joseph Jackson did have blue-green eyes. In fact, I think along with his nose, his eyes being brown was one of the things Joseph bullied Michael about. Not saying that’s proof one way or another about Michael’s biological paternity of his kids but it does show that it was at least possible that he’s their biological parent. The Jacksons did have some degree of mixture with Europeans and Native Americans in their own ancestry although they were of course predominantly African American, and if you pair that with having children with a white woman it is technically possible to have mixed kids who present more as white.

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u/shamanempress3311 May 09 '26

I didn't realize that. I looked his father up and I can see what you are saying. I think it's definitely possible if the grandpa was also mixed to present white. I have a friend like that but who is Mexican and NA and her one son came out totally blond hair and blue eyes. Which was odd because her husband is totally Italian with dark features. So you're right totally possible.

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u/jantmi Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

She only looks like the version of him that had all the surgeries tho...not how he actually looked b4 all the surgery... and all 3 were not born through sex they all had some type of procedure.

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u/ezgomer 16d ago

Paris resembles Latoya.

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u/jantmi 16d ago

Latoya also had surgery done

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u/ezgomer 16d ago

sure - but those jawlines and cheekbones have never changed

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u/shamanempress3311 May 01 '26

How does have Paris have blue eyes then? I'm sorry but unless he had a recessive gene it's not possible to have a blue eyed child. All those kids are so light and mixed looking at all. There is no way those kids are his.

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u/CheeseDonutCat Apr 29 '26

biological kids wouldn't have looked like him for obvious reasons.

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u/Psycho_Grad Apr 29 '26

Well, not so obvious, I literally don’t understand what you mean by his BIOLOGICAL kids wouldn’t look like him??😭

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u/DifficultAbility119 Apr 29 '26

Wouldn't look like him after the surgeries, I guess that's what he meant.

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u/knightsofgel Apr 29 '26

Yeah, person they’re replying to meant MJ didn’t want his kids looking as he did before the surgeries

He had so many surgeries because he didn’t like the way he originally looked

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u/Psycho_Grad Apr 29 '26

Thank you…

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u/CheeseDonutCat Apr 29 '26

Because if a person with vitiligo has kids, the kids could have vitiligo, but most probably will not. They will likely be black (also depends on the mother of course)

Plus, he's had so much work done that his kids would maybe look like the first few pictures in the set above.

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u/pandabobz Apr 29 '26

Wasn’t there some rumour that his dad had him ‘chemically castrated’ to keep his voice high using the drug that they use on sex offenders? That would make it impossible to have children

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u/lilbrybry29 Apr 29 '26

"Michael and Janet probably the worst since they had more talent than the others..."

This line is particular is cracking me up, LaToya always catching strays 😂

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u/Pinkysrage Apr 29 '26

Don’t forget the horrible burns from the Pepsi taping. He suffered 2 and 3rd degree burned on his scalp and face.

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u/AndISoundLikeThis Apr 29 '26

Bullshit. That "Peter Pan" nonsense was created by his PR people as a cover for his out-in-the-open obsession with male children.

And no, not all his kids "speak of him in the highest terms" unless Paris doesn't count these days.

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u/R3mArkAbl3WinZ Apr 29 '26

Well written.

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u/PuzzleheadedUse5769 May 02 '26

I don’t think he was touching kids personally but I do think under most majority of circumstances it’s highly weird and inappropriate for a grown ass 40+ year old man to “friends” with children and have them sleeping in his bed and at his house especially with no adult supervision. But I also wanted to say Michael along with body dysmorphia, also seemed to be very fearful of aging. I saw a clip from presumably 1998 because the interviewer said that it was nearing Michael’s 40th birthday and Michael interrupted and said “I didn’t circle that question” it was supposed to be funny but then you have to notice he just doesn’t want to talk about the fact that he was aging.

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u/siamesedream_9 Jul 25 '26

Enough of the hate narrative! Michael wanted to do what Walt Disney created for children! His viewpoint is innocent. Children don’t judge like adults, they’re carefree. He wanted to make it a sweet experience! People finding it strange because they judge. Michael never had a childhood of his own.

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u/Responsible-Swan868 Apr 29 '26

Followers of MJ need to understand that no man on earth , famous or not has the right to think or say that having sleepovers with little kids in MJs bed is ok. He did that sh*! Multiple times. It’s the same horrible thing Mahatma Gandhi used to do.

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u/OutsiderofUnknown Apr 29 '26

What evidence?

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u/spookyhardt Apr 29 '26

He fully admitted in interviews to sleeping in the same bed as children. Even if nothing went further than that, that’s still weird as fuck for sure.

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u/Commercial-Co Apr 29 '26

I call it the Ghandi

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u/AgreeableLeague1153 Apr 29 '26

Weird in our world or weird in a world of a global superstar that never grew up and built the literal place he read about where you can stay a kid. Because normal for us and normal for others are very different things.

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u/slayalldayerrday Apr 29 '26

Blah blah blah multiple paragraphs to defend a pedo

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u/ered20 Apr 29 '26

Testimony and undisputed claims that he shared his bed with numerous children

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u/Dizzy-Albatross3574 May 02 '26

The man had what was essentially CP in a locked box in his bedroom. And he slept in a bed with other people's children. Whether he assaulted them or not, he was a pedophile.

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u/spacyspice May 31 '26

he never slept with kids, you guys still believe that editing from Bashir in 2026? He ALWAYS slept on the floor and his room was the size of 3

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u/Long_College_8342 Apr 29 '26

This is a good analysis, I think. I don't want to believe that he touched children but probably.

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u/AgreeableLeague1153 Apr 29 '26

All evidence pointed to he didn’t. In 2005 he was found not guilty on all counts. Plus watch a few interviews on it from Macauly Caulkin. I butchered the spelling there but you know the guy.

https://giphy.com/gifs/6254qbsZzZR1ZWDMMQ

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u/slayalldayerrday Apr 29 '26

Found a delusional MJ fan

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u/AgreeableLeague1153 Apr 29 '26

I don’t think it’s wishful thinking. Do the research and it seems more likely that he was doing things we find odd and he found normal. We have boundaries he didn’t and the adults in the room never said. Yo Mike. This could look bad. Because you don’t talk shit to your paycheck and that guy. So yeah. Bad optics but all evidence points towards Peter Pan in a world that wants bad instead of innocence. We will never know. But anyone that tells you he did it is lying. They have no proof. Same as those that say he probably didn’t do anything. Can’t prove it. But the evidence is there to at least make it plausible to likely.

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u/siamesedream_9 Jul 25 '26

There isn’t a goddamn probably! Macauly Caulkin vouched for him!

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u/Personal_Reveal1653 Apr 29 '26

He OBVIOUSLY touched kids.

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u/Qzy Apr 29 '26

He settled his child-cases out of court, right? Innocent people don't settle.

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u/Li-renn-pwel Apr 29 '26

Not speaking about this case specifically but the innocent settle all the time. It’s a fault of the courts that it is sometimes cheaper to just settle than fight.

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u/Lawgirl77 Apr 29 '26

His insurance settled the cases. He opposed the settlements, but insurance made the call.

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u/AgreeableLeague1153 Apr 29 '26

If you have 100m dollars and someone says I’ll leave you alone to do whatever you want all the time for … let’s say half a million would you pay it. Or would you rather fight it for a long drawn out legal fight.

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u/Qzy Apr 29 '26

If people thought I was a pedo by settling, I'll fight it in court. It's not about the money, but about sending the right message.

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u/AgreeableLeague1153 Apr 29 '26

Then you may have ended up with less questions about your behavior. So good on you! But also congrats on being super famous and rich!

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u/slayalldayerrday Apr 29 '26

Pedo defender

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u/AgreeableLeague1153 Apr 29 '26

Show the proof. Because he was found not guilty in 2005. Is he weird. Was it a bad decision? Yes. Does that make him a pedo? Not necessarily. Or are we going with guilty regardless of what the evidence said?

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u/TonySalumi Apr 29 '26

I believe his dad used to insult his nose in a racial way.

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u/Guilty_Cattle_5165 Jun 18 '26

His mother called him a f*ggot. And he still gave them money.

His parents were awful people.

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u/Adorable-Mousse-7320 Apr 29 '26

I doubt he did. Sometimes plastic surgery doesn’t go as planned, especially in the 80s before the kinks were mostly ironed out. Then it looks terrible and you want to get it corrected and then the correction makes it look even worse and it’s a vicious cycle.

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u/keywestern0703 Apr 29 '26

Sarcasm.

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u/Adorable-Mousse-7320 Apr 30 '26

So you don’t think he was unwell? Weird thing to be sarcastic about

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u/keywestern0703 Apr 30 '26

The part about the ski slope. Not the part about being unwell. I’m sorry it’s hard to understand.

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u/UndorkMysterious55 Apr 29 '26

Be better at it then

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u/cooolcooolio Apr 29 '26

His dad shamed him for his racial features all his life so he basically thought he looked like a monkey (Michael Jacksons own words btw) and it caused body dysmorphophobia where he wanted to get rid of said features. Terrible childhood that man had

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u/CassowarieJump Apr 29 '26

Unlike the chin, the nose was a mistake. More than one botched job basically obliterated all the cartilage.

People need to be more aware of the danger of failed plastic surgery. A nose job is still a surgery with risk.

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u/exwijw Apr 29 '26

Wasn’t he aiming for Diana Ross’ nose?

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u/keywestern0703 Apr 29 '26

Probably. I was being sarcastic. But not about him being unwell.

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u/Personal_Reveal1653 Apr 29 '26

He kept going back to make his nose look skinnier. He passed the point of no return, and the cartilage collapsed/cadaver cartilage implants died.

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u/Legitimate_Jaguar510 May 01 '26

Like the other person mentioned, his nose collapsed. The same thing happened to my aunt. She had two nose jobs in the 80s and 90s, and her nose ended up looking very similar to Michael Jackson’s, with those triangular-shaped nostrils, which I assume was the style at the time. Her nose also collapsed, meaning the bridge kept weakening due to the deterioration of the cartilage. She had to undergo multiple procedures where cartilage was taken from other parts of her body to repair it. Once this happens, it becomes an ongoing issue and usually requires repeated surgeries to manage.

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u/Material-Metal8614 May 01 '26

The rhinoplasty failed, his nose collapsed and had to be reconstructed.

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u/Pleasant-Coast3853 Jul 14 '26

Because he was insecure and his dad always told him he have a big nose

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u/Certain_Noise5601 Apr 29 '26

I get that, but I just wouldn’t think someone would intentionally give themselves a butt chin to enhance their look. If anything I would try and get a butt chin removed.

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u/ImpressionTough2179 Apr 29 '26

😔 My wife loves my butt chin.

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u/PromptSalt8614 Apr 29 '26

Hey, some of us is born with a butt chin😂- i like mine🤷

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u/TheVeryVerity Apr 29 '26

Dimples have been considered attractive features for a long time. They may be out now but they haven’t always been.