MJ had to lighten skin over fears of looking like a ’spotted animal’, says bro
July 15th, 2009 - 6:07 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 15 (ANI): Late King of Pop Michael Jackson’s brother Tito has furiously slammed reports that the superstar lightened his skin because he wanted to change his race.
Tito claimed that his brother constantly got himself bleached because he feared looking like a “spotted animal”.
He revealed that the ‘Thriller’ star was forced to bleach his skin because he was suffering from vitiligo.
“He wasn’t trying to make himself look less black. My brother had a case of vitiligo. His body was blotching and he chose to bleach out the blotches with dermatologist creams,” the Mirror quoted Tito as saying.
“He wanted to have uniform skin. It had nothing to do with him wanting to change his race. It was due to the loss of pigmentation. If I had no pigment I would be just the same.
“I don’t know if he was embarrassed, but he knew his body was going through changes. He just wanted to look as good as he could.
“He had no choice in the matter, otherwise he would have looked like a spotted animal or a cow with spots all over him.
“It spreads and grows, you can catch it any time and can’t do a lot about it. That’s why he just had to carry on bleaching his whole life. He was trying to get himself as attractive as he could, to make himself presentable as a celebrity,” he added. (ANI)
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