Supposedly he has a skin disease, I can't remember the name, but I know it exists. It makes him ultra sensitive to the sun, hence why he started on the facials, etc. For that I don't find fault with him. But it does add to the bizzare atmosphere.
The disease may be true but his increased sensitivity is not going to be bothered by his trip to and from the SUV. The umbrella bearer is an affectation.
That particular disease is patches of skin,not the whole body.Also it's usually a pinkish color.He's pasty white all over,except the finger nails.
By 1991, when Jackson's song "Black and White" was a huge hit internationally, people were beginning to wonder whether he was lightening his skin. On the song, he sang, "I'm not gonna spend my life being a color"
In 1993, Jackson told Oprah Winfrey that his skin color was indeed changing — because of a skin disorder called vitiligo, which causes white blotches to appear on the face and other parts of the body. "It is something that I cannot help, OK?," he said on Winfrey's show. "But when people make up stories that I don't want to be who I am, it hurts me."
When studying a photograph of Jackson taken at the time, Lipkin's initial reaction was to call it "the most unusual case of vitiligo I've ever seen."
Although she said it was possible that Jackson started bleaching his skin because of the disease — in order to blend his natural darker tone with the lighter blotches that were appearing — she also said that a lighter skin seemed consistent with other changes that she believes Jackson made to his features.
"When you look at the other features, the skin bleaching sort of goes along with what I think was his quest for beauty," she said. "So I have to wonder what came first? Vitiligo or lighter skin?"
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=131910&page=1
vitiligo i think it is called.