La Toya: Michael Jackson's Son Inherited His Skin Disorder

It's a shame that we want a skin disease as a proof to know if Prince is MJ's son or not.

Why on earth it matters? MJ was a great father, he loved his kids and his kids loved him. But the media is obsessed with paternity issues.

I think it would be awful for Prince Michael to have to suffer through Vitiligo like his dad had to... I hope it is not true but I have noticed white spots showing through the boy's tanned skin, on his hands, in some photos.

I hope Prince and his siblings have an easier life than their dad, regardless.

I really hope that this isn't true. I don't want Prince to have to suffer through the same scrutiny and cruelty that his father did for something that is beyond their control. We really don't need a skin disease to know that all 3 of those children are Michael's biological children, all you have to do is look at them and you know!

awww poor kid....vitiligo sucks, trust me, i kno :(

Absolutely, it doesn't take having vitiligo for us to see that all three children are Michael's. Blanket is his spitting image when he was younger, whereas Paris resembles her mother and grandfather Joe Jackson. Prince looks a lot like Michael as a very young adult, plus he even has his father's hands. He looks exactly like his great grandfather, Samuel Jackson. I sincerely hope the condition doesn't negatively impact his young life the way it did his father. Rest in peace MJ, and let's leave these poor children alone.

Well i dont care if he is or not he raised them and they loved him..but LaToya dont surprise me wit her stupidity and lack of facts..if he as vitiligo then why did prince get darker than lighter and does it effect your hair color as well because i know prince use to be blonde..crazy b!tch...

It's fairly common for very small boys to have white-blonde hair that gradually darkens. I have seen it in several friends, and in my father. He went from very light to black hair. Why do you assume Michael dyed Prince's hair? He loved him just as he was, and loved Paris and Blanket just as they were, for as long as he lived.

That's right, his hair was bleached. I remember seeing pictures of these kids about four years ago and they both had tightly curled hair. I remember asking myself why MJ would dye his son's hair blonde, but I saw the kinks. Mixed kids come in all colours and with all hair textures. Keeping in mind that MJ comes from a mixed background (Joe has hazel-green eyes), the way they look isn't that surprising. I wonder why no one questions Rashida Jones' parentage. She has a similar look to Paris.

michael was a great father, he raised them on his own and they loved him, so why on earth does it matter...

Yes, Michael is their father in legal terms and action. However, he is NOT the biological father of the children. STOP IT. Anyone who thinks he is is delusional. And Latoya needs to shut up. She's as crazy as they come. Trying to tell people that a black man and woman came up with 3 all white children. PLEASE! Name another mixed child (black and white) that looks as white as those kids...I'll wait....

I don't really understand why maany people keep on assuming that Prince, Paris, and Blanket, are not Michael Jackson's biological children, simply because they are light skinned, and have long hair. Many half-white kids tend to be light skinned anyway, and as for the texture and color of their hair, both Paris and Blanket have curly black hair (I know Paris's hair now looks straight (but this could be the simple result of hair-products/perming), but if you watch videos of Paris during her infancy, you will see that her hair was dark brown back then, and quite curly like a gipsy's; which is very often the way the hair of half-white and half-black children looks). Michael Jackson definitively stated on Martin Bashir's Documentary "Living with Michael Jackson" that all his children were conceived from his own sperm cells. So we are then left with a number of possibilities: 1) Either MJ was blatantly lying to the world about his children's parentage (and why exactly he would lie about something like this I don't know, since the LA Coroner's final Autopsy Report, stated that MJ was still producing active/motile sperms at the moment of his death? If he was producing his own active sperm cells up to his death as the autopsy report concludes, then why would he need someone else's sperm cells for the in-vitro fertilization of his ex-wife? And this is only if we concede (for reason of argument) that he did not conceive both Prince and Paris in the usual sexual manner, which is how his dermatologist; Dr. Klein has stated on Larry King's CNN Program that he strongly believes MJ and his ex-wife did conceive them. Blanket is the only child MJ explicitly said was conceived via in-vitro fertilization [and his unknown mother (based on the boy's looks) is most like of hispanic descent]), or 2) Both his ex-wife and the hospital the kids were born in, deceived Michael Jackson, secretly fertilized his ex-wife with another man's sperm cells, and passed on to him someone else's kids under false pretenses (and MJ we are again asked to stretch credulity and believe, rather very strangely fell for the same trick twice), or finally 3) they are all indeed the man's children as he has always said they are, and as I also believe them to be. I have a lot of mixed race children as friends (indeed I grew up with quite a number of mulatos, and I got to watch the way their looks and pigmentation tends to change with time), and depending on the way their parent's genes combine, these children can display racial traits that either favor one parent, or racial traits that happen to be more in balance between the various races involved; and whose genes are being combined. We have already been told that Michael Jackson himself is a mixture of Black, White, and Native American genes. If the white genes he inherited, were recessive in MJ's case, and thus the black genes in his DNA tended to dominate (thereby resulting in him looking dark), then it is very likely that if he were to mate with a white woman, her dominant white genes, when combined with his recessive white genes, would produce whiter rather than darker children (this is simple Mendelism, and if you read your basic genetics theory, you would find out this is how such crossings usually turn out). And I guess, it is partly because of this uncertainty as to how the progeny of mixed couplings would turn out that racists in the old (and I hope forever gone) dark days of "The Segregation," upheld the outrageous "One Drop Rule." In essence thereby stating that if you have one drop of black blood in you, you are considered fully black, but that rule in no way settled this thorny issue, for many mixed children used to turn out sometimes so white that even back in the Deep Racist South (or more recently in Apartheid South Africa), without keeping detailed records of people's parentage, you could not tell simply from their appearance alone, whether someone was pure white, or of mixed blood. And if I remember correctly, some such mixed children were referred to back then as "Passing for White." So those of you, who are so quick to conclude from mere appearance alone that Prince, Paris, and Blanket, are not MJ's kids, I ask you this question, what if like many other mixed children in the past, they are merely passing for white. There was a curious case that made the news, either last year or two years ago in France. This was a case I saw with my own eyes on Cable TV. It involved fraternal female twins, born to the same French mother; a white girl and a black girl. The mother was white, and the father black, and the twins split the genes of both parents, so don't be so quick to conclude these kids are not biologically Michael's. Human genetics, and the result of combining them, is still an area of science we do not fully understand!

I don't really understand why many people keep on assuming that Prince, Paris, and Blanket, are not Michael Jackson's biological children, simply because they are light skinned, and have long hair. Many half-white kids tend to be light skinned anyway, and as for the texture and color of their hair, both Paris and Blanket have curly black hair (I know Paris's hair now looks straight (but this could be the simple result of hair-products/perming), but if you watch videos of Paris during her infancy, you will see that her hair was dark brown back then, and quite curly like a gipsy's; which is very often the way the hair of half-white and half-black children looks). Michael Jackson definitively stated on Martin Bashir's Documentary "Living with Michael Jackson" that all his children were conceived from his own sperm cells. So we are then left with a number of possibilities: 1) Either MJ was blatantly lying to the world about his children's parentage (and why exactly he would lie about something like this I don't know, since the LA Coroner's final Autopsy Report, stated that MJ was still producing active/motile sperms at the moment of his death? If he was producing his own active sperm cells up to his death as the autopsy report concludes, then why would he need someone else's sperm cells for the in-vitro fertilization of his ex-wife? And this is only if we concede (for reason of argument) that he did not conceive both Prince and Paris in the usual sexual manner, which is how his dermatologist; Dr. Klein has stated on Larry King's CNN Program that he strongly believes MJ and his ex-wife did conceive them. Blanket is the only child MJ explicitly said was conceived via in-vitro fertilization [and his unknown mother (based on the boy's looks) is most like of hispanic descent]), or 2) Both his ex-wife and the hospital the kids were born in, deceived Michael Jackson, secretly fertilized his ex-wife with another man's sperm cells, and passed on to him someone else's kids under false pretenses (and MJ we are again asked to stretch credulity and believe, rather very strangely fell for the same trick twice), or finally 3) they are all indeed the man's children as he has always said they are, and as I also believe them to be. I have a lot of mixed race children as friends (indeed I grew up with quite a number of mulatos, and I got to watch the way their looks and pigmentation tends to change with time), and depending on the way their parent's genes combine, these children can display racial traits that either favor one parent, or racial traits that happen to be more in balance between the various races involved; and whose genes are being combined. We have already been told that Michael Jackson himself is a mixture of Black, White, and Native American genes. If the white genes he inherited, were recessive in MJ's case, and thus the black genes in his DNA tended to dominate (thereby resulting in him looking dark), then it is very likely that if he were to mate with a white woman, her dominant white genes, when combined with his recessive white genes, would produce whiter rather than darker children (this is simple Mendelism, and if you read your basic genetics theory, you would find out this is how such crossings usually turn out). And I guess, it is partly because of this uncertainty as to how the progeny of mixed couplings would turn out that racists in the old (and I hope forever gone) dark days of "The Segregation," upheld the outrageous "One Drop Rule." In essence thereby stating that if you have one drop of black blood in you, you are considered fully black, but that rule in no way settled this thorny issue, for many mixed children used to turn out sometimes so white that even back in the Deep Racist South (or more recently in Apartheid South Africa), without keeping detailed records of people's parentage, you could not tell simply from their appearance alone, whether someone was pure white, or of mixed blood. And if I remember correctly, some such mixed children were referred to back then as "Passing for White." So those of you, who are so quick to conclude from mere appearance alone that Prince, Paris, and Blanket, are not MJ's kids, I ask you this question, what if like many other mixed children in the past, they are merely passing for white. There was a curious case that made the news, either last year or two years ago in France. This was a case I saw with my own eyes on Cable TV. It involved fraternal female twins, born to the same French mother; a white girl and a black girl. The mother was white, and the father black, and the twins split the genes of both parents, so don't be so quick to conclude these kids are not biologically Michael's. Human genetics, and the result of combining them, is still an area of science we do not fully understand!

John Odeh...

i think those are his children because prince has vitiligo , paris has his mouth structure and latoya's face shape and blankwt had big eyes like mj had.

Find it so amusing how you can state that until there is definite DNA results showing that Michael is the biological father we should not assume he is. For all we know there probably ARE definite results but the family feel why should they make the details public when the rats who run the media will only be sceptical and regard the results as doctored maybe? Why should they pander to S--T like yourselves? THEY know the kids are definitely biologically his and so do many other people. What is the world media's problem eh??? Sorry that Prince has vitiligo though (if he has). As another correspondent has hinted - can't take anything LaToya says too seriously given her past track record. RIP in Michael.

Have just read (elsewhere) today (for the second time) that Michael had ephedrine in his system at the time of his death. To those who are unaware of what this drug is - it is a stimulant commonly found in common cold medications. Has made me wonder if Michael had a cold because this could have caused him to have the reaction to the anaesthetic drug which claimed him. Not for nothing are surgeons reluctant to operate on patients who have a sniffle.

What confuses people is that Michael Jackson is actually only around half,or little more than half black. The other half is mixed native and white. This makes Prince#1, Paris' Blanket, and Omer no more than a quarter black, from their father michael Jackson. michael's four biological children look like they should for being only around a quarter black.. People just assume Michael and his brothers are full black, or almost full black , due to their Afro's. Michael and his siblings looked medium brown, and not light because they also carried Native genes.Then when the Jackson brother's had children with women who were mixed black, mixed with asian, or asian/ black, hispanic, and Nordic white, (carrying only recessive genes for blue eye's , light skin color, all of their children were born with more caucasian facial features, noses, straighter hair instead of afro textured hair, and noses like michael. This is because of native, white, asian genes. ( Natives as well as asions have very straight hair. )Prince #1 looks exactly like Joe Jackson's father , samuel Jackson's and has his facial, mouth expressions. Both Prince #1 and Joe Jackson Pout their lips forward in their photos side by side photos. Michael and Omer inherited this same genetic trait. See photos of michael and Omer as small children, and as adults. What is interesting is that this facial/ mouth expression, seen in Joe Jackson's father , samuel Jackson's photos, is also shared by Blanket, Prince #1 , Michael, Tito's and jermaine's sons..as well as many Jackson's... It is a strong Genetic, inherited Jackson trait. Other facial expressions, mouth expressions such as jaw clenching, sticking tongue between pursed lips, putting hands , fingers to face, mouth.., as well as the pouting with pursed lips jutted forward can be seen on many Jackson children, including Tito's and jermaine's sons. just go through all youtube pictures of Michael and Omer as children and adults,Prince #1, Jaafar, Jermajesty, and the Three T's,tito's son's..See youtube video's,#1 ( Genetics, michael's 3 sons)#2 (If Michael's children aren't jackson's, they sure look like them) #3( What Blanket will look like as adult )#4 (Paris compared to Latoya #5( Michael's children look like jackson's) #6 (Omer and Michael look alike ) and ( Michael's children look like jackson's )