Yes, vitiligo can remove most, if not all, of the pigment in someone’s skin, such that they have no skin color. However that is very rare, and it usually takes many years to do this, with spots appearing during the process. So it’s not likely that vitiligo alone was responsible for his significant transformation in skin color.
Michael Jackson bleached his skin, and multiple plastic surgeries that changed a number of his features (nose, chin, etc), suggested that he wanted to look less like himself, and more like someone else – some have said he “wanted to look white”.
Did Michael Jackson have vitiligo? First, we know that he stated that he had vitiligo, although this was not until many years after rumors were flying about his “turning white” and his many surgeries.
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