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10:41 pm - 08/27/2008


As he turns 50, is this what Michael Jackson should really look like?

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What could have been: An experts' image of Jackson (left) and how he looks today after surgery (right)

He is almost always in a wheelchair, wearing a bizarre outfit and so frail he appears to be at death's door. 

Meanwhile, his record-breaking career seems a thing of the past. From all accounts, he is not motivated to do anything. He has no real plans for the future and is deeply in debt.

So, with the passing of his 50th birthday, how did it all come to this?

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Alone in his madness, he became gradually weirder, and no one seemed to care.

During the Eighties, when he started to experiment with plastic surgery - an obvious cry for help - there was nobody to slow him down and not even his family seemed to help him.

But by then, it was almost impossible to get through to Michael in his increasingly isolated state.

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King of pop: Jackson during his HIStory tour in the 1990s. He has now lost his desire to perform.


But for a man who is so obsessed with youth, so intent on remaining a child, many fear his birthday will be a day of reckoning for Michael Jackson. He has no plans to celebrate, other than in some small, private way with his children.

He has even begun to regret having plastic surgery and spends much of his time staring at his reflection in the mirror.

'I don't know what I was thinking back then,' he recently said. 'Everyone makes mistakes when they're young, I guess. But I still look OK, don't I? I mean, for 40?'

When reminded that, in fact, he was about to turn 50, Jackson gave a sad, half smile.

'It all went by so fast, didn't it? I wish I could do it all over again, I really do.'

But for Michael Jackson, it seems, the time for a comeback has passed. 'I'm tired,' he said last week. 'I've got nothing left to give. I just want to be left alone. Is that so bad?'


*This was a long article so i basically copied the important parts of the article.


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[info]secretivexhero 28th-Aug-2008 06:55 am (UTC)
HE LOOKED BETTER BEFORE :(

damn his family for teasing him. bastards.
[info]rhapsodeeinblue 28th-Aug-2008 07:29 am (UTC)
IKR? What father would call his own son ugly? And especially MJ - he used to be cute. :(
[info]forgethissmile 28th-Aug-2008 02:44 pm (UTC)
Srsly. I hate his father so much for fucking up his son.
For fucking up his whole family, basically.
[info]sweet_tiff4prez 28th-Aug-2008 04:10 pm (UTC)
ia his father is a piece of shit.
He was making fun his nose and acne
[info]mauichic 28th-Aug-2008 06:55 am (UTC)
it's sad :(
[info]kaylajoy21 28th-Aug-2008 06:57 am (UTC)
I just not went back up and read that little clip...thats horribly sad.
[info]despedida 28th-Aug-2008 06:55 am (UTC)
UR GONNA BURN IN HELL U FUCKING BABY RAPER.
[info]gooey_gus 28th-Aug-2008 06:57 am (UTC)
BABBY RAPPER
[info]despedida 28th-Aug-2008 06:59 am (UTC)
babby raptor?

[info]anti_krypton 28th-Aug-2008 07:49 am (UTC)
LOL holy shit, this had me crackin
[info]missklutz16 28th-Aug-2008 07:58 am (UTC)
[info]buffy_usa 28th-Aug-2008 10:46 am (UTC)
exactly, my f'ing thoughts exactly
[info]kaylajoy21 28th-Aug-2008 06:56 am (UTC)
Billie Jean is not my lover...she's just a girl...who thinks that I am the one.........
[info]flightsabove 28th-Aug-2008 06:59 am (UTC)
but the kiiid is not my son.
[info]kaylajoy21 28th-Aug-2008 07:01 am (UTC)
New song....

Do you remember *ugh* when we fell in love? We were young and innocent, babe...

**I so loved that video**
[info]onebadpenguin13 28th-Aug-2008 06:56 am (UTC)
when i was little i loved michael jackson and my aunt prank called me saying she was him and i believed it. in hindsight... not so cool... but im was a lil girl so i was good
[info]neccowafers 28th-Aug-2008 06:59 am (UTC)
im so tired i thought you were saying your aunt's name is prank
omg time to go to sleep
[info]onebadpenguin13 28th-Aug-2008 06:59 am (UTC)
lol. i guess i coulddaa put a comma. :) goodnite
[info]estasoyyooo 28th-Aug-2008 11:05 am (UTC)
that made me lol
[info]teamdowney 28th-Aug-2008 12:00 pm (UTC)
I need sleep too bb because I just read it like that, and LOL'd.
[info]razzy03 28th-Aug-2008 06:59 am (UTC)
haha awww thats sweet
[info]light_spectre 28th-Aug-2008 10:58 am (UTC)
OMG. Same here. I was so obsessed, I used to watch the Moonwalker video every day, even though the robot transformation bit terrified me. Haha! And to think, I used to want to be him so bad.
[info]artemis_archer 28th-Aug-2008 06:57 am (UTC)
really messed up, and sad :(
[info]caznorfe He's still amazing — 28th-Aug-2008 06:57 am (UTC)
at dancing and his songs are catchy.
[info]flightsabove 28th-Aug-2008 06:57 am (UTC)
is it even possible to bleach skin? why are his kids white?

omg you can't just ask people why they're white.
[info]kaylajoy21 28th-Aug-2008 07:04 am (UTC)
oh, you can always ask.
[info]spinsteratic 28th-Aug-2008 07:05 am (UTC)
Because the mother is white. His kids are mixed.
[info]coulditbesatan 28th-Aug-2008 07:22 am (UTC)
like hell they are.
[info]suzycat 28th-Aug-2008 07:34 am (UTC)
It does seem *rather odd* that *all three* look so very Caucasian.
[info]_generalsmuts 28th-Aug-2008 11:15 am (UTC)
the mother and the father or white, he paid a couple to have children for him. they're more adopted than his.
[info]clubs 28th-Aug-2008 01:48 pm (UTC)
those kids are NOT mixed
[info]excelente 28th-Aug-2008 03:42 pm (UTC)
Michael Jackson said himself in the Martin Bashir interview that "Blanket's" mother was Black. lol riiiiiight. The man is a pathological liar to the point where I think even he believes the stories he's concocted. Those children may be legally his, but not biologically.
[info]silverfox1027 28th-Aug-2008 07:14 am (UTC)
is it even possible to bleach skin?

[info]flightsabove, meet hydroquinone.
[info]joanshearer They're White because — 28th-Aug-2008 10:21 am (UTC)
he bought them from Europe...the oldest two back when you still could and the baby was from a White a surrogate impregnated w/ a White dude's sperm. My theory anyway.
[info]kaylajoy21 28th-Aug-2008 06:58 am (UTC)
my cousin has it on her arms, and hers never spread or anything, but she definitely has chunks of skin that are way lighter
[info]bitte_ein_kuss 28th-Aug-2008 02:09 pm (UTC)
i have a theory that patchy skin was behind his one glove phase.
[info]tashieee 29th-Aug-2008 06:10 am (UTC)
I have that. On my forehead and my leg :(
[info]ultravlntmoloko 28th-Aug-2008 07:00 am (UTC)
yes & i'm sure he still has it
[info]spinsteratic 28th-Aug-2008 07:06 am (UTC)
I thought he had Psoriasis.
[info]xxlovespongexx 28th-Aug-2008 07:07 am (UTC)
yes there are pictures of parts of his skin when it was still patchy before he bleached it
[info]sophie_ann 28th-Aug-2008 08:05 am (UTC)
i remember on that big interview that aired a few years back, they showed photos of his skin. large patches were white, and i think the rest they cover with makeup?
[info]estasoyyooo 28th-Aug-2008 11:07 am (UTC)
Yes, he did.
[info]_generalsmuts 28th-Aug-2008 11:27 am (UTC)
I think he had it and decided to bleach his whole skin because he is major fucked up.
[info]cinex 28th-Aug-2008 03:13 pm (UTC)

you can see what his skin actually looks like without the white make up
it's whiteish with dark looking freckles, which i'm assuming is the only pigment left in his skin
[info]bits_and_tits 28th-Aug-2008 06:57 am (UTC)
I was so in love with him!
[info]omg_palindrome 28th-Aug-2008 03:24 pm (UTC)
Omg you have a new Rhys icon :') Where do you get them bb?
[info]bits_and_tits 29th-Aug-2008 04:27 am (UTC)
The "So You Think You Can Dance Australia" Facebook site!
[info]drasticsigns 28th-Aug-2008 06:58 am (UTC)
It's a shame that someone with so much musical talent ended up that way.
[info]straightgoods 28th-Aug-2008 09:02 am (UTC)
say word. it's crazy how he's still a legend even through all the shit did. that's real.
[info]estasoyyooo 28th-Aug-2008 11:07 am (UTC)
But it was kind of predicted given how batshit insane his father was.
[info]gooey_gus 28th-Aug-2008 06:58 am (UTC)
his face looks too big for his head in that pic
[info]quiquiriiqui 28th-Aug-2008 06:58 am (UTC)
idk.
i rly dont.
[info]likeacid 28th-Aug-2008 06:59 am (UTC)
I remember watching all those specials about him, like how that voice he uses isn't his real voice... and idk. It's just really sad.

But I still love u, Michael. :(
[info]brianistuft 28th-Aug-2008 07:04 am (UTC)
It's not his voice?
[info]bizarrre 28th-Aug-2008 07:13 am (UTC)
no no no, his real voice is much deeper and sexier than that woman one he puts on.
[info]likeacid 28th-Aug-2008 07:25 am (UTC)
Someone, I don't remember who, was interviewed and said that she called Michael one day. A deep, manly voice answered the phone. And it was him.
[info]rhapsodeeinblue 28th-Aug-2008 07:32 am (UTC)
He's said that he doesn't like the way his real voice sounds. He sings in his real voice on one of his songs from Invincible - since no one's used to it, it's kind of weird.
[info]in_suburb 28th-Aug-2008 09:40 am (UTC)
But it is his voice, his singing voice, not digitalized or someone else singing, right?
[info]la_cienega 28th-Aug-2008 01:00 pm (UTC)
i still love him, too. :(

i really wish he had any sincere people around him.
[info]haydsvirgo 28th-Aug-2008 02:28 pm (UTC)
I still love him too. He was a huge part of my childhood and the man was incredibly talented and entertaining.
[info]starryskies 28th-Aug-2008 06:03 pm (UTC)
You mean it's his falsetto?

That's still his voice, just not his natural voice. Hm. Well, you had me thinking he had a digitized voice or something.
[info]noplanesgo 28th-Aug-2008 09:23 pm (UTC)
suri's face in your icon looks so much like a ^_^ face
[info]ultravlntmoloko 28th-Aug-2008 07:00 am (UTC)
Man in the mirror is my favorite MJ songs
[info]ultravlntmoloko 28th-Aug-2008 07:01 am (UTC)
-s
[info]jesusnachos 28th-Aug-2008 07:29 am (UTC)
mine 2
[info]iamcheryltweedy 28th-Aug-2008 07:33 am (UTC)
it's up there for me too
[info]reddressorblue 28th-Aug-2008 12:49 pm (UTC)
It's one of mine, too. Maybe my favorite, period.
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