Michael Jackson: this is why he was addicted to cosmetic surgery
2019 will mark - already - the 10 years of the disappearance of Michael Jackson. The star will have spent four decades exposed to the eyes of the general public. From the chubby face of the Jackson Five in the 70's, to the wearing of a mask to hide his features during the last years of his life, how Michael Jackson was able to transform himself to the extreme, as he reached the peaks?
1979. Michael Jackson falls in the middle of filming the clip "Off the wall". An event that prompts him to undergo rhinoplasty because he claims to have broken his nose. A version later contradicted by his sister, La Toya Jackson, two years his senior. She confides that Michael Jackson was self-conscious about his nose and kept saying, "He's too fat, I want to do it again, what do you think? », As reported by our colleagues from the Daily Mail. La Toya Jackson, to whom he is close, has an influence on him. It is above all "the first in the family to use cosmetic surgery to refine certain features of her face", as our colleagues at Gala point out. Michael Jackson then follows in his big sister's footsteps. From the moment he succumbs to the siren song of cosmetic surgery, his relationship with the scalpel becomes unhealthy.
In 2003, Pamela Lipkin, rhinoplasty specialist, analyzes Michael Jackson’s appearance on photos for ABC News and concludes, “Plastic surgery addict doesn't mean you have 10 or 12 cosmetic surgeries. This means that whatever surgery you have you are still not satisfied with what you look like. He was obsessed with her nose. His nose had become an obsession. "
CHILDHOOD-RELATED TRAUMA
Her appearance has literally changed over the years to completely erase her natural features. An obsession that would result from his father, Joseph Jackson, who died on June 27. Violent and without indulgence, the head of the family sets the bar very high even if it means inflicting physical and psychological abuse on his children. Terrified of his father, the young Michael Jackson also suffered his insults. Joseph Jackson calls him a "big nose". A name that affects the King of Pop throughout his life.
In 2003, in the documentary directed by Martin Bashir "Living with Michael Jackson" the King of Pop said: "I have never done cosmetic surgery on my face". Faced with a dubious air and the insistence of his interlocutor, he ended up confessing half-heartedly: "I just had my nose redone, in order to breathe better and to reach higher notes". “Two, from what I remember I had two surgeries. Only two ”.
But Michael Jackson had a fascination with image and liked to play with his identity. Some see in "Man in the Mirror" a metaphor of this being which is reflected and that he would like to embody when others read in "Black or white" a message related to the whitening of his skin. Margo Jefferson, author of “On Michael Jackson” in 2006, said in an interview with ABC News reporter Cynthia McFadden: “I think he was obsessed with wanting to stay forever. As if he wanted to be like a being in a realm of glory beyond life and death. "
