Here's How Michael Jackson Would Have Looked Like Without Cosmetic Surgery

Although he had denied it until the day he died, there's no doubt that Michael Jackson underwent a lot of surgeries during his time on earth. The child star had completely changed his skin complexion and the entire structure of his face to a drastic degree. It's almost impossible to think that the white man we knew was the same black boy who won the hearts of millions of people earlier in his career.

The star underwent several surgeries including cheek implants, skin bleaching, botox, chin restructuring, fillers, and lip augmentation. He also had multiple operations on his nose, which became thinner and pointier as time went on, obviously to the point where his airways were blocked.

Undoubtedly, Jackson’s surgeries were due to deeper reasons than merely pure vanity; the popular star suffered child abuse and seemed to struggle a lot with his unfathomable wealth and fame from the get-go. It seemed as if Jackson perpetually battled with his identity and dysmorphic disorders, which led to his strange image. Nevertheless, a simulation of what Jackson’s face would have looked like with no surgeries has emerged in a documentary, and it is pretty shocking.

In the documentary, The 10 Faces of Michael Jackson, his sister,La Toya, describes how the star had initially been so anxious about his first rhinoplasty that he convinced her to get one first so that he could see what it would look like and whether it hurt.

Miss Jackson, 58 years old, said: “He wanted to get his nose done . . . He kept saying: ‘What do you think? What do you think?’ I said: ‘Michael if that’s what you want, if it’s gonna make you feel better, get it done.’”

“He asked me: ‘Can you be the guinea pig for me? Can you get your nose done and let me see how it looks, and if it hurts?’”

As he was satisfied with La Toya’s results, Michael Jackson decided to go ahead and get the surgery himself in 1979. This operation began his journey in the world of plastic surgery.

Despite the drastic changes in his appearance, Jackson kept denying that he had any other work done, apart from a nose job. In an interview with Martin Bashir, the star said: “‘I’ve had no plastic surgery on my face, just my nose. It helped me breathe better so I can hit higher notes. I am telling you the honest truth, I didn’t do anything to my face.”

Nevertheless, Dr. Eda Gorbis, who's an expert in body dysmorphic disorder, thinks that Jackson could've had up to as many as a hundred procedures and was demonstrating characteristics of the illness whereby the sufferers have a distorted view of their appearance.

The most surprising thing about the documentary came when the experts examining Jackson’s surgery revealed what they believed he would have looked like if he had left his face alone. The picture, above, of an attractive, delighted black man with a warm smile is a stark contrast to the Michael Jackson we all came to know. Jackson apparently had his demons, and it appears that he took a lot of his insecurities and frustration out on himself.

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