It helped me breathe better so I can hit higher notes.'īashir was skeptical, asking if Jackson honestly was saying he'd only ever had one operation. 'I've had no plastic surgery on my face,' Jackson said. In a 2002 interview with ABC News' Martin Bashir, Jackson denied that he had had plastic surgery beyond the nose job. It is believed that that's when he had his first plastic surgery. He fell while dancing and broke his nose. beyond life and death.'Īfter the release of his fifth solo album, 'Off the Wall' (1979), Jackson had an accident that would change him forever. 'It's as if he wanted to look like some, you know, being who has gone into some eternal realm of fame. 'I think he was obsessed with staying timeless, is what I think,' Jefferson told ABC News' Cynthia McFadden in a recent interview.

It was as if he was using the story to preview the real-life drama of metamorphosis to come. In the video for the mega-hit, Jackson transforms from man to werewolf to man to zombie and back to man. It was after the unprecedented success of 1983's 'Thriller' that Jackson's metamorphosis became far more than an artistic statement. Jackson's Changing Face: 'Staying Timeless' except when I can set this crowd going.' I think he wanted to flee that Michael Jackson completely.' The little Michael Jackson, you know, who grew up struggling and suffering and.

He longed for what he could never possibly have back, which was some vision of a childhood. Margo Jefferson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and the author of 'On Michael Jackson,' said, 'I think he longed for some kind of peace of mind. 'I used to go to Michael's room and I see on his wall he's writing, 'I will sell 20 million records' on his mirror,' Jackie Jackson said. But even before he began to alter his features, Jackson was wearing a mask, concealing a feeling of unbearable pressure to succeed, brother Jackie Jackson said in a 1993 interview. In the 1970s, as the youngest member of the Jackson 5, Michael was the cherub-faced wunderkind no audience could resist. Indeed, there are no shortage of theories from plastic surgery experts and biographers like Taraborrelli about the possible nature and number of surgeries behind Jackson's changing appearance - and the reasons they believe the star did it. And he went about the business of doing that.' Randy Taraborrelli, who has followed Jackson's career for three decades and wrote an unauthorized biography. 'He didn't want to be Michael Joseph Jackson,' said J.

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