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As he turns 50, is this what Michael Jackson should really look like?
What could have been: An experts' image of Jackson (left) and how he looks today after surgery (right)
He is almost always in a wheelchair, wearing a bizarre outfit and so frail he appears to be at death's door.
Meanwhile, his record-breaking career seems a thing of the past. From all accounts, he is not motivated to do anything. He has no real plans for the future and is deeply in debt.
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Alone in his madness, he became gradually weirder, and no one seemed to care.
During the Eighties, when he started to experiment with plastic surgery - an obvious cry for help - there was nobody to slow him down and not even his family seemed to help him.
King of pop: Jackson during his HIStory tour in the 1990s. He has now lost his desire to perform.
But for a man who is so obsessed with youth, so intent on remaining a child, many fear his birthday will be a day of reckoning for Michael Jackson. He has no plans to celebrate, other than in some small, private way with his children.
He has even begun to regret having plastic surgery and spends much of his time staring at his reflection in the mirror.
'I don't know what I was thinking back then,' he recently said. 'Everyone makes mistakes when they're young, I guess. But I still look OK, don't I? I mean, for 40?'
When reminded that, in fact, he was about to turn 50, Jackson gave a sad, half smile.
'It all went by so fast, didn't it? I wish I could do it all over again, I really do.'
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