When the king of pop died in 2009, his appearance was so drastically transformed. You could barely compare his look with the face the world had fallen in love with in the 1970s and early ’80s.
Just to lay the faces next to each other, here’s what Micheal Jackson looked like as a teenager:
…and this is what he looked like towards the end of his life.
There are many different believes why MJ started with plastic surgery.He ended up spending hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars on his appearance.
He believed to have had his first plastic surgery in the early ’80s. These surgeries turned into a habit, some might even say an addiction at the end of his life.
Many were left wondering what Michael would have looked like if he wouldn’t have started with cosmetic procedures. These procedures included, but weren’t limited to cheek implants, skin bleaching, chin restructuring, botox, fillers, and lip augmentation.
Those all followed his first procedure, a nose job in 1979.
He kept getting work done on his nose over the years as it seemed to get smaller and more pointed. Even to the point that his airways got blocked.
Fortunately for his career and his many fans, it never affected his singing voice.
Jackson was haunted by a many issues throughout his life. That might have been one of the reasons why his appearance turned into such a drastic transformation.
Below, you’ll see a composite of what experts think Michael Jackson would have looked like without any plastic surgery.
Needless to say, the 2 do not resemble each other at all.
Quite the difference!
But no matter what he looked like, his music is still and will continue to be of big influence in the music industry.
h/t: Life Buzz