konknaijaboy | On 09, Feb 2015

A TV documentary titled “The 10 Faces Of Michael Jackson” has revealed how Micheal Jackson would have looked like without the surgeries. He started out modestly enough — by just wanting a different nose. In the end, after up to 100 procedures, he was desperately trying to repair the damage done by reckless and botched operations and injections. Michael Jackson, surely the most infamous example of the perils of cosmetic surgery, spent 30 years trying to achieve his idea of perfection. Some friends said he was modelling himself on Diana Ross, others that he just wanted to obliterate all resemblance to his hated father.
In the documentary which showed a computer generated image of how the legend would have looked at 55, his sister, Latoya said “Despite this success at the early age of 19, he loathed his appearance. According to La Toya, Michael was especially distressed by his nose and would say: ‘It’s too big, I want to get it done.’
Ashamed to admit he just wanted a smaller nose, he claimed he’d had an operation after breaking it during a dance rehearsal. However, he wasn’t satisfied with this result — Dr Steven Hoefflin, who performed a second nose job to correct the original operation, said that he was left with breathing difficulties and ‘required further work’ 1995: Jackson, 37, is extremely pale thanks to frequent skin bleaching by a dermatologist and heavy use of make-up. He has also started to wear wigs. His friend, illusionist Uri Geller, asked why he was changing his appearance. Geller says he replied: ‘I don’t want to look like my
father.’ By now Michael was married to Elvis’s daughter Lisa Marie Presley. They separated the following year2002: He has taped his nose, apparently to stop fluid from botched surgery from leaking into his
mouth. He wore the tape at all times during this period. Leading rhinoplasty surgeon Dr Pamela Lipkin said: ‘I think something in his nose, a graft, an implant, has now come out through the skin and that’s why he’s probably got a hole in his skin. He has what we call an end- stage nose, one that’s beyond the point of no return’ After a fourth or fifth nose job, his nostrils started to assume a triangular look. (In 1992 he was spotted wearing a prosthetic nose tip to try to cover up the botched results of the surgery.)
He had a new dimple in his chin and had chin implants to make it larger. He started to look whiter — he later claimed this was a consequence of the skin condition vitiligo. He also started to wear wigs. His friend, illusionist Uri Geller, asked why he was changing his appearance. Geller says he replied: ‘I don’t want to look like my father.’ As at 2002, he had taped his nose, apparently to stop fluid from botched surgery from leaking into his mouth. He wore the tape at all times during this period. Leading rhinoplasty surgeon Dr Pamela Lipkin said: ‘I think something in his nose, a graft, an implant, has now come out through the skin and that’s why he’s probably got a hole in his skin. He has what we call an end-stage nose, one that’s beyond the point of no return’

2009: Jackson, 50, was in debt to the tune of £350 million. He announced a surprise tour called This Is It. His friend Dr Allen Klein said: ‘It got to the point where his nose was far too thin. It didn’t look natural to me. I rebuilt it using fillers.’ He is missing part of his ear — the cartilage having been used to rebuild his face. He died of a cardiac arrest in June before the tour after being given drugs to help him sleep Body dysmorphic disorder expert Dr Eda Gorbis — who believes Jackson was suffering from the illness, where sufferers have a distorted view of their appearance — has claimed he had as many as 100
procedures. Eventually his original features were almost completely obliterated, as was his ethnicity. But the documentary’s most heartbreaking revelation is a computer- generated image of how the star could have looked had he left his face alone — an attractive, contented black man with a warm smile.

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