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I think this is genius. The Daily Mail has printed pics of what the Thriller-star should look like if he hadn’t taken a surgical knife to the face. Apparently, they took old pics of the famous moonwalker and used PC’s to age Michael’s mug appropriately.
Of course, my only question is why stop there when there are so many other stars to expose. If I had access to this wonderful technology (and enough cash on hand), I’d be commissioning a whole slew of un-botoxed, un-plastic surgeried, and definitely un-Toupeed celeb pics, and then use them to create a giant matching quiz. Link via the ever-addictive Gawker.
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Wow, that picture kind of makes him look like a creepy child molester. Er, wait…
posted by Vincent Colombo on 8-28-2008 at 12:17 pm
That is absolutely nuts. Thanks for sharing this!
posted by Bethany on 8-28-2008 at 12:27 pm
Start by commissioning a shot of Jerry Jones. I can still remember the “oh, my god” reaction the first time I saw his post-surgery face.
posted by Paul on 8-28-2008 at 12:36 pm
What a handsome older man he COULD have been; instead of a weird old lady!
posted by Beth on 8-28-2008 at 12:44 pm
What the hell?!!! He’s black???
posted by RobRoast on 8-28-2008 at 12:45 pm
You could also do celebrities who passed on too early. What would James Dean look like at age 50? Or Marilyn Monroe?
posted by Marty on 8-28-2008 at 1:27 pm
Well jeez, he looks like a normal human being. Who woulda thunk it?
posted by JaneM on 8-28-2008 at 1:32 pm
@Marty: I love that idea!
posted by Mangesh on 8-28-2008 at 1:33 pm
crazy
posted by teesa on 8-28-2008 at 2:13 pm
Why does he look like a morphed George Clooney?
posted by Permial Darkling on 8-28-2008 at 2:15 pm
How timely…tomorrow is Michael Jackson’s birthday. The only reason I know this is because it’s my birthday too, although I am quite a few years younger than everybody’s favorite crazy train wreck pop singer.
posted by Sandy on 8-28-2008 at 2:20 pm
Atleast he looks better than what he looks like now. but yeah, he still does look like a pedophile.
posted by Natalie on 8-28-2008 at 2:29 pm
Jeez yall, he still would have enough money for a decent haircut, don’t you think?
posted by Andrew on 8-28-2008 at 2:52 pm
What is black when it is young and white when it is an adult?
Swan?
No, its Michael Jackson!
posted by DannyArcher on 8-28-2008 at 2:53 pm
I’d be interested to see how close the software product is to real life by viewing real aged photo vs. cyber.
posted by ibmetom on 8-28-2008 at 3:10 pm
Heh, he would’ve looked so much better than he is now…
posted by Hilarious videos on 8-28-2008 at 3:38 pm
Ding, ding, ding! It’s your wake-up call…who cares about MJ these days?
posted by Katrineholm Uncensored on 8-28-2008 at 4:05 pm
he becomes the dude from silver spoons and fresh prince?!
posted by erik on 8-28-2008 at 4:07 pm
I don’t know. Maybe it’s just me, but the face looks too big for his head.
posted by Sillstaw on 8-28-2008 at 4:08 pm
honestly i think he look much better like these….. i wish he never made him self freak like now … i used to like him a lot when he was normal black man … but what he did to him self it effect also in his music,,, he had a gift of the look beside the voice.. his eyes were nice.. but now he is nothing but freak..
posted by medo8102 on 8-28-2008 at 4:46 pm
ilov michael no matter wat he looks like i just want to say happy birthday to the KING OF POP!
posted by jadey on 8-28-2008 at 7:09 pm
Except he’d still be white cuz he has vitiligo, doesn’t he?
posted by Brendo on 8-28-2008 at 8:30 pm
Why does he start off black on his forehead then white towards his chin ? ha.
posted by jimmyy on 8-28-2008 at 8:49 pm
They didn’t grow the ears enough. they’d be at least 50% larger.
posted by Dave on 8-28-2008 at 10:14 pm
There’s a problem with the software – his face is disproportionately large for his head.
posted by airship on 8-29-2008 at 9:46 am
Well he did the world a favor by looking the way he looks, if all people morphed into looking and dressing like what’s really inside them we would never have Ted Bundy or Ed Gein. I say let him do his thing, and parents should be accountable.
posted by Blewit69 on 12-22-2008 at 6:29 pm
That’s freakin’ crazy. I found a side by side comparison with how he really looks now: http://www.showchange.com/content/142-what-michael-jackson-should-look
posted by FiftyFiveOh on 1-25-2009 at 10:38 am
except he has vitiligo so he’s still be white!
posted by Heaven Clark on 1-27-2009 at 1:33 pm
No Heaven Clark his old pics shows that he was not white but had black coloration in skin.
posted by Vitiligo cure on 3-17-2009 at 3:36 am
Had he been straight, he would’ve really been handsome. Too late for this though. The icon is gone.
posted by Payperbiz on 6-26-2009 at 1:54 am
Only in America can a poor black boy grow up to be a rich white woman.
posted by eightyeight on 6-26-2009 at 11:16 am
I am so sick of hearing about this frigging idiot he was a child molester and you guys make him sound like a frigging hero i am so glad he is dead thank god now all the little boys in world are safe from the freak!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
posted by Gatorgirl on 7-3-2009 at 7:26 am
All the negative comments are so ridiculous. What happened to innocent until proven guilty? I’m embarassed to exist alongside people who can say they are glad someone like MJ is dead.
posted by godawgs on 7-7-2009 at 11:33 pm
He looks like a cross between alfonso ribeiro and barack obama. he would have been a hot and sexy older man if did not go under the knife.
posted by Irish on 7-8-2009 at 7:05 pm
RE: Vitiligo Cure: “No Heaven Clark his old pics shows that he was not white but had black coloration in skin.”
Um exactly, you idiot! Thats exactly what vitiligo does! Its a disorder in which pigment cells are destroyed! So yes, he would still have been white, surgery or not.
posted by Stephanie on 7-16-2009 at 2:16 pm
why are all of you talking about the way he looks? He can dance and sing right? That’s all that matters. Who cares what he does to his body. It’s not your body so there’s nothing to say about it. I think who keeps talking about MJ like that needs to shut up. If you don’t have anything good to say about Michael then stay off this website dummies. And gatorgirl really needs to shut up.
posted by Godknowsbest on 7-31-2009 at 5:03 pm
Your worst enemy is yourself when it
comes to apprearances. He was never satisfied, Maybe he was trying to run away from himself. He had a mindset to look a certain way and he was never happy at the outcome of the surgery everytime
posted by Maureen on 8-19-2009 at 3:15 pm
I love MJ, hate all the haters who go online just to express their hate for a truley talented and loving of gods children man. I think he looks much better the way he does than if he had aged “correctly.” But in my opinion MJ did age correctly. I don’t think he ever did anything to any teenage boy because I read an artical about the case and it sound’s like the father of the boy made it up to stop MJ from being a popular music icon!
posted by Rebecca on 11-2-2009 at 1:01 am