Michael Jackson was born in 1958 into a large Jackson family. His mother Katherine was a person of strong faith and always put family first. Michael became her ninth child, which she prayed for. Father Joe was also a man of strong faith, but he always made sure that his children were properly brought up. He wanted to become a successful singer, but his dream disappeared. That is also why he and his wife started such a large family. He had a very clear plan. Since he himself could not pursue a career that he liked, he decided that all of his children would work in the music industry. He even invented the Jackson 5 group.
He was always strict with his children and never forgave them. He had the greatest demands on his last son Michael, whom he punished the most severely of all. When he made his father very angry, he had to strip naked, smear himself with oil, and then endure beatings with an iron cable. His father even called him a woman. However, Michael was hiding a great talent. When he entered a singing competition one day, he charmed the jury with his unusually high-pitched voice, which he could even imitate the drums.
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Michael Jackson in 1988.
His life was surrounded by controversy, he was fragile and remorseful
Michael Jackson was surrounded by many controversies throughout his life. One of them was plastic surgery, which he was literally obsessed with. Although he was born African-American, by the end of his life he had pale skin reminiscent of a European. Many people believed at the time that he was bleaching his skin on purpose, but he was suffering from a disease called vitiligo, which is depigmentation of the skin. He had his first plastic surgery in the 1970s, due to his broken nose. A few years later, he decided to have a skin burn repaired while filming a pyrotechnics commercial.
He underwent the biggest cosmetic surgery in 1987, when he had a dimple added to his chin. The King of Pop was very shy and didn’t want to approach people. That’s why he never got to see his great love. His psyche was still at the level of a small child, and he himself admitted that he did not even desire any big relationship. He built a little Disneyland on his ranch in Neverland, where he escaped from the world when he wanted to relax. Everyone was also surprised by his unexpected wedding to the daughter of rock and roll king Elvis Presley. But their marriage did not last very long and within a few years the couple divorced. His second wife was nurse Deborah Jeanne Rowe, whom he married in a hotel room.
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Michael Jackson in 1969.
Propofol and a sick heart became fatal for him
At the end of the 1990s, he was really at his peak, but at the same time he was thinking about the end of his career. He was planning a This Is It tour, but he didn’t get to see it. His friends said he was in very good spirits a few days before his death. He was full of energy and planning his final tour. But at that time he was used to taking a handful of medicines that were harmful to him. He couldn’t walk, sing or sleep without them. He even had his personal doctor at home, who gave him some sleep and anxiety medication on his last night. Propofol became fatal for the singer.
When his doctor hopped off to the toilet, he discovered shortly after that the singer was not breathing. He called an ambulance immediately and gave him first aid, but the singer dies thirteen minutes later. He died of heart failure. On Thursday, June 25, 2009, at 2:26 p.m., news of the death of the popular singer Michael Jackson spread around the world. That’s when the world of millions of fans around the world stopped, along with the heart of the King of Pop. He died in his fifties and never got to see his biggest tour.
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