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I've never seen a case of vitiligo where it turns one almost completely white.

posted 8 months ago by michaelDclarke (1693)
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MJ is the only case I know of. Most vitiligo sufferers look "blotchy".

--Michael D. Clarke

[–] michaelDclarke (1693) 8 months ago

[–] BillySlater (4138) 8 months ago

It was blotchy on MJ. He started using skin bleaching medication to even out the blotchiness at the expense of losing his original skin colour. His autopsy also confirmed he had vitiligo.

[–] Ticketsplease (4024) 7 months ago

Strong circumstantial case that he wanted to be white and after 10 years of bleaching it, did something in the early 90s to turn white-white. Chemically induced depigmentation is a thing, normally done by the wealthy in India and other places where people are brown and want to be white.