Michael Jackson had 100 operations, see how he would have looked without the surgeries

He was said to have started modestly, first by wanting a different nose.  In the end after about 100 procedures, he was desperately trying to repair the damage done by reckless and botched operations and injections.

Some said he wanted to look like Diana Ross.  Others said he wanted to obliterate the resemblance to his father whom he hated so much. 

Michael had his first nose job in 1979.   Click on read more to continue...

Computer generated image of how Michael would have looked if he had not done any surgery

 

Seven years later, he also persuaded a friend and fellow plastic surgery devotee, Hollywood hair stylist Steve Erhardt, to be the first to experiment with a cleft chin operation.

Erhardt claims Michael’s plastic surgeon told the singer that he needed a chin ‘like Kirk Douglas, something very masculine’.

After Erhardt’s new chin was revealed, Jackson went on to have this operation several times.

Despite his initial nerves, Michael also had Botox, fillers, bleached his skin, had cheek implants and lip augmentation. He changed the shape of his nose to the point that it was so narrow the airways were blocked.

Body dysmorphic disorder expert Dr Eda Gorbis — who believes Jackson was suffering from the illness, where sufferers have a distorted view of their appearance — has claimed he had as many as 100 procedures.

Eventually his original features were almost completely obliterated, as was his ethnicity.

But the most heartbreaking revelation is a computer-generated image of how the star could have looked had he left his face alone — an attractive, contented black man with a warm smile.

friend, Hollywood hairstylist and plastic surgery devotee, Steve Erhardt