Posted on 07/09/2009 9:25:07 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
Michael Jackson rebuilt his nose before his death because extensive plastic surgery had left him with breathing problems, his doctor has disclosed.
Arnold Klein, Jackson’s dermatologist, said that he stopped him from going to a plastic surgeon and began rebuilding his nose and cheeks using fillers last year.
“I thought he had a nice-looking nose . . . but it got to the point where it was far too thin. It didn’t look natural to me,” Dr Klein told the CNN programme Larry King Live.
“I rebuilt it, using fillers. He was beginning to look like the nose was normal again. And that’s all I wanted — and to regain the breathing passages of his nose, because there was a total collapse of the cartilage.”
Dr Klein had completed work on the singer’s nose but was continuing to treat him for severe acne and scarring from plastic surgery before his planned series of concerts in London. He saw Jackson for the last time just three days before his death.
“I just was trying to get him ready to do the concert, because in the way he looked in his face he wanted it to be absolutely as perfect as it could be,” he said.
Dr Klein first met Jackson almost 25 years ago when he diagnosed the auto-immune disorder lupus. He said that Jackson also suffered from vitiligo, an auto-immune disorder that affects the pigmentation of the skin, and that he was not lightening his complexion to try to appear white.
“Michael was black. He was very proud of his black heritage. He changed the world for black people,” he said.
Dr Klein said that the skin condition gave Jackson a “totally speckled look” all over his body, particularly on his face and hands.
“We basically used
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“LIe after lie after lie - all to make HIM the victim.
Michael is the victim of his own demise.”
It has been known for so many years that he had lupus and vertiligo....also scarring from acne.
They are NOT lies.
He also was injured when a concert set collapsed many years ago...that’s when he started to take meds for pain and became addicted.
I agree about Bonnie Raitt, but TXBlair was right. Total Eclipse of the Heart was Bonnie Tyler.
I wanted to be a rikker
“I wouldn’t go to a podiatrist for heart surgery. I wouldn’t go to a brain surgeon for breast implants. Why did MJ go to a dermatologist for plastic surgery!”
Dermatologists and ENT (ear, nose and throat) physicians also perform “plastic surgery.”
Maybe the “lupus” bit is just “one more lie” of the many here...
Lupus can cause skin discoloration, such as vitiligo, and Jackson had “huge white patches all over his body,” Chopra said, adding Jackson had taken Oxycontin, Vicodin and Demerol at various times in his adult life.
I'd never heard of Have a Heart, but for your listening pleasure...
*snort* When i was a kid I was SURE that she and Kenny Rogers were brother and sister.
By the way, what is yitbos? Is it an acronym for yes it's true barack obama sucks??? If so, well done!
Have a heart was used in the movie with Denzel Washington and that Australian actor what his name that was in the movie Roger Rabbit. I think the movie was the same name. Anyway, “Have a Heart” is Bonnie Rait’s usual swing blues and slide guitar with her wonderful voice.
I have the LP/tape now CD. Hope you enjoyed!
PS, I always wished Bonnie Tyler would have made a little more top 40 music. Guess it was the wrong type of music of the time.
“Once upon a time I was falling in love
But now I’m only falling apart
There’s nothing I can do
A total eclipse of the heart”
turnaround...
She sounded like a female version of Meatloaf.
What a voice.
The first girl does not at all look like girl 2 or 3. The lips are different, teeth are different, expression of the eyes is different.
I listened to the song on YouTube. Very nice! I thought, “How cool that Bonnie Raitt got Denzel Washington and Bob Hoskins in the video,” then finally realized that it must have been clips from a movie!
Thanks for the info. I may have to check out the movie one of these days!
And you’re so right...Bonnie Tyler was awesome!
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