Michael Jackson's Skin

Michael was from an African-American family where he had a dark skin color throughout his childhood and his youth. During mid 1980s, his skin gradually grew pale which was considered to be a skin bleaching. Jackson started making his nose smaller and his skin more and lighter. He and his sister La Toya used a cream known as Porcelana to achieve the light skin where they had crates of this cream at their home. According to many Dr. Halford, Jackson tried to look like white people in order to get in films and on television. Jackson’s physical changes drew a lot of attention and gained wide spread media coverage. It was also presumed that Jackson beached his skin to boost his career. In 1986, Jackson was diagnosed with vitiligo which was considered by doctors to be a consequence of damage done by bleaching chemicals over the years. This disease is non-contagious and cannot be cured, but the progression of the patches can be stopped. Once Jackson told his maid Blanca Francia that he bleaches his skin because he does not like being black and he feels that blacks are not liked as much as people of other races. Jackson was later diagnosed with lupus that the vitiligo partially lightened his skin and the lupus was in remission and both illnesses made him sunlight sensitive. Debbie Rowe who was his wife used to treat Micheal his illness after marrying her in 1996 and also supporting him emotionally. Rowe worked as a nurse in a dermatologist clinic where Micheal used to be treated vitiligo.