A surgeon has confirmed that Michael Jackson underwent numerous surgical
treatments that left him with very little nose, although the paleness of his
skin was due to an illness that forced him to cover himself in makeup,
People magazine published today.
Dr. Wallace Good stein, who attended the operations of the "king of pop"
during the 1990s, assured that the artist went through the clinic
"approximately once every two months and had between ten and twelve
surgeries" in the time when he was there.
"He had a lot of things done that were inappropriate," Good stein said, noting that the singer had "multiple nose jobs, cheek implants and had a cleft in his chin, also eyelid surgery... you name it." you say he did it to him"
According to the testimony of this doctor, Jackson always went to the aesthetic clinic in a "clandestine" way and at the last hour of the day to avoid being seen when he came and went.
The operations ended, said the surgeon, for leaving him with very little nose and it was when the artist went to the dermatologist Arnold Klein, who has subsequently been attributed the paternity of the singer's two eldest children, to recover a more normal appearance of his face.
"I used hyaluronic acid (a liquid found naturally in the vitreous humor of the eye, for example) and it worked very well. It was an arduous process because you don't want to put too much. You have to make it exact so that you can circulate the material and be perfectly smooth," Klein said.
"It began to look like I had a normal nose again. That was what I wanted, to recover the breathing tubes, because there was a total collapse of the cartilage," added the dermatologist.
Klein insisted that Jackson's pale skin was due to a disease called vitiligo, which is an irregular discoloration of the epidermis, contradicting the popular belief that the artist wanted to appear white.
In the case of the "king of pop", this problem was "so severe that the best way to treat it was with creams that would lighten the dark areas that remained in his skin to completely match the pigmentation," Klein said.
"That was ultimately the decision that he had to be. Æpermil; he would have to wear very heavy make-up on stage, which would be ridiculous and he could never go out in public without looking terribly peculiar," the doctor confessed.
Klein is one of the doctors whose relationship with Jackson is being investigated by the Los Angeles police to clarify the reasons for the singer's death on June 25.
