Joe Jackson’s death has brought the Jackson family together once again — but all of their praise for the pop patriarch is meant to cover up the showbiz legend’s brutal legacy! In truth, Joe was absolutely brutal to his sons as he whipped them into shape to top the charts as the Jackson 5. He was especially vicious to young Michael Jackson, who would later inspire his siblings by changing his face to avoid looking anything like his dad! It’s a tragic twist to what’s become one of the most extreme stories in the history of celebrity plastic surgery…
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Michael became notorious for his plastic-surgery obsessions after he found huge solo success in "Thriller." Several insiders
blamed Joe for ruining his son's self-image. There were multiple reports of Michael's father constantly calling him "Big Nose," with sources saying that the King of Pop was also driven by a desire to wipe out the family resemblance.
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Katherine Jackson was very sensitive to Michael's problems with his father, and her son even lied about his first plastic surgery — telling his mother that surgery was required after he had broken his nose. But he couldn't hide the major transformation after his second rhinoplasty in 1981.
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"Michael was elated about the fact that with the second nose job he looked less like his father," family insider Marcus Phillips told biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli. "If he couldn't erase Joe from his life, at least he could erase him from the reflection in the mirror. Already, he was talking about having a third nose job."
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Close pals, however, always traced the new looks back to his brutal upbringing with Joe. "His dad made him obsessed with protecting children," said one source, "and Michael didn't want to look like the man who'd scared him as a child!"
Michael became notorious for his plastic-surgery obsessions after he found huge solo success in "Thriller." Several insiders
blamed Joe for ruining his son's self-image. There were multiple reports of Michael's father constantly calling him "Big Nose," with sources saying that the King of Pop was also driven by a desire to wipe out the family resemblance.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Katherine Jackson was very sensitive to Michael's problems with his father, and her son even lied about his first plastic surgery — telling his mother that surgery was required after he had broken his nose. But he couldn't hide the major transformation after his second rhinoplasty in 1981.
Photo credit: Getty Images
"Michael was elated about the fact that with the second nose job he looked less like his father," family insider Marcus Phillips told biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli. "If he couldn't erase Joe from his life, at least he could erase him from the reflection in the mirror. Already, he was talking about having a third nose job."
Photo credit: Getty Images
Close pals, however, always traced the new looks back to his brutal upbringing with Joe. "His dad made him obsessed with protecting children," said one source, "and Michael didn't want to look like the man who'd scared him as a child!"