Thriller_MJ;4281080 said:
Excuse the error in spelling vitiligo in the thread title, can a mod fix this?
I'm curious to know if any others of the Jackson clan have the condition. I can't remember when Michael said it came from his dad side, i think it was in the Martin Bashir doc or maybe Private Home Movies but he defo said it though.
Vitiligo actually originated from Joseph Jackson’s aunt.
Here are Joseph Jackson’s own words about that to the journalist Chris Connelly:
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… Michael got Vitiligo… We saw it comin' on him ... at [an] early age. You know, just a little spot. My aunt had the same thing..." (Joseph Jackson, ABC News)
So, Vitiligo passed to Joseph Jackson from his aunt, and then it passed from Joseph Jackson to some of the members of the Jackson family with varying degrees of the severity of the disease (including, but not limited to, Michael Jackson and Jermaine Jackson).
But Michael Jackson is the only member of the Jackson family that Vitiligo evidently affected the most.
Even Jermaine Jackson was shocked when he saw on one occasion (in the mid-2000s) the horrible effects of Vitiligo on Michael Jackson’s body (torso, upper chest, upper arm, rib, shoulder, stomach, etc).
Also, Janet Jackson implied in one of her interviews (from back in the day) that Michael Jackson and Jermaine Jackson are not the only siblings in the Jackson family that have the Vitiligo disease.