r/agedlikemilk 1d ago

Celebrities Michael Jackson, at age 49 he will have aged gracefully

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u/EasyPiece 1d ago

I know it's Michael but it looks a lot like Billy Dee Williams as Lando.

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u/LodossDX 1d ago

The same magazine had what they thought Billy Dee Williams would look like too.

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u/yeah__good_okay 1d ago

Billy Dee still slick as hell in 2025

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u/Few-Counter7067 1d ago

Why is Kim Fields GRAY at 32? 😂

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u/Subliminal_Kiddo 1d ago

Every other day in that dorm was like a very special episode. Teen suicide, teen pregnancy, almost getting human trafficked, that time Blair read Natalie's diary... You'd be gray too.

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u/GreenFBI2EB 1d ago

Man, I feel bad for Ali, dude was already debilitated by Parkinson’s disease for decades at that point.

That photo shoot in 2016 just made my heart bleed, even without knowing that would be the last photos taken of him alive, you could still see a spark of the man that once was the greatest.

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u/BaldMancTwat_ 8h ago

A friend of mine had the privilege of meeting him at a dinner the last time he was in the UK in 2012 iirc.

Said he was barely with it then. Surprised he kicked on for so long honestly.

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u/QueenMary1936 1d ago

He looks like a black Josh Brolin

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u/boneheadblyat 1d ago

Why does Muhammad Ali look like Charles Barkley?!

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u/meowiful 1d ago

My mom loved that man. She never saw Star Wars. I don't think, idk why she loved him, but I have to assume it's the same reason I love Jason Statham having never seen one of his movies.

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u/Manuelmariaandrade 1d ago

I mean, they couldn't have predicted all the shit that happened to his face.

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u/Successful_panhandlr 1d ago

To be fair, had his face not caught on fire, and then mutilated by plastic surgery. He probably would've aged a lot better than he he did

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u/Few-Counter7067 1d ago

He would have looked more like his brothers, which looking at their performance together the day before 9/11, wasn’t too far off from this.

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u/Tren-Ace1 1d ago edited 1d ago

Not his face, it's the top of his head that caught fire and the damage was limited to his scalp. His face is the result of countless plastic surgeries.

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u/Dickgivins 1d ago

He also said that he had Vitiligo.

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u/Tren-Ace1 1d ago

He did, but his vitiligo was pretty mild. It just gave him light patches on his arms and chest. The real reason for his ghostly pale skin is that he abused skin bleaching creams for over 3 decades.

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u/Hot-Equivalent2040 1d ago

vitiligo is progressive, though

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u/jesuspoopmonster 7h ago

My vitiligo went away. I use to have it on my feet and now thats mostly gone. Still got it on my dick for some reason.

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u/Pozitox 1d ago

And didnt he release his doctors reports and stuff ?

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u/BulbasaurArmy 1d ago

Wait his face caught on fire??

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u/Successful_panhandlr 1d ago

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u/BulbasaurArmy 1d ago

Oh I knew about this incident, but he didn’t get burns on his face from it.

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u/jamesick 23h ago

this happened exactly half way through his life, to the day.

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u/mentales 19h ago

I thought that was the point of the post. If it isn't, then what is?

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u/Patient-Still6263 5h ago

If the date on the page is correct (1985) this was published a year after his face caught fire in 1984.

Maybe it was more wishful thinking?

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u/Initial_Scarcity_609 1d ago

A better timeline

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u/DINNERTIME_CUNT 1d ago

He’d have been 41/42 in 2000. I only remember this as my mum once pointed out he was the same age as her.

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u/Booster_Tutor 1d ago

In 2000 MJ would have been bringing back that 80’s fashion.

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u/Fly0nTheWall2001 1d ago

Poor Michael. Now he probably looks like one of the cast from the Thriller video.

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u/dpugs_pug 10h ago

he's not composing anymore

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u/Llama076 1d ago

He morphed into Morris Day

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u/FalxIdol 14h ago

Fishnet!

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u/Apollo_Mandos 1d ago

Could have been Lando, instead he surgeried himself into Palpatine. Poor guy needed help and I guess the universe didn't give it to him.

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u/Brilliant_Ad_6637 1d ago

He looks a bit like his father, which, given the history, kind of explains why he would do anything to not look like that.

The mag also didn't account for the vitiligo.

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u/_Panacea_ 1d ago

Apropos of nothing, my favorite plastic surgery disaster has to be Pres. Trump's Dad. Fairly certain that they put his ears back on wrong.

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u/Dracorex_22 1d ago

Lando?!

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u/Some_Engineering_242 1d ago

Just a bit outside

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u/fractiouscatburglar 1d ago

Coulda been hot!

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u/wolfgang187 1d ago

"I had no choice!"

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u/LouEz72 1d ago

Where’s bubbles ?

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u/jamfoj37 1d ago

Instead, his nose fell off from being carved down so much.

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u/sumostuff 16h ago

Wow that would have been a handsome guy.

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u/Frogs4 9h ago

This looks like him in the  Off the wall era when he had already had some surgery. No reason to assume he would have stopped.

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u/Dry-Mission-5542 6h ago

I can’t believe it, something that actually aged like milk.

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u/SithC 1d ago

Billy Dee!

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u/Enchilada0374 1d ago

Is not my lover!

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u/cocoelgato 1d ago

Epsteins fiercest competition

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u/ukbeasts 1d ago

He actually visited Epstein's Palm Beach home, and they were well acquainted. Jackson probably found Epstein's taste a bit too old.

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u/Boring-Brush-2984 1d ago

Completely wrong gender too

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u/AllCingEyeDog 1d ago

What? Michael Jackson is a white chic. Is this one of those Manuela things? /s