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Doctors confirmed what many fans suspected: Michael Jackson had plastic surgery to improve his looks.

Pop singer Michael Jackson paid his personal surgeons millions of dollars in hush money to keep extensive plastic surgeries he received top secret.

Fans speculated for decades that Jackson received multiple corrective surgeries on his nose, chin, lips, eyes, forehead, ears, neck, cheeks and eyebrows. He was also suspected of undergoing liposuction, skin whitening, teeth whitening, anal bleaching, hair implants, a Brazilian butt lift, nipple reduction, laser hair removal, pectoral augmentation and even penis enhancement. Perhaps the most unusual procedure he was thought to have had is called umbilicoplasty, surgery to change the belly button from an outy to an inny or, in very rare cases, vice-versa.

But Jackson, who was one of history’s most successful and beloved performers with more than 750 million albums sold, was notoriously reserved about his private life and refused to confirm or deny the operations prior to his sudden death Thursday at the age of 50.

This morning, however, a team of doctors led by Sanka Lonife, M.D., acknowledged in a hastily assembled press conference in Los Angeles, Calif., that Jackson had received dozens of corrective surgeries since the mid-1980s.

“Michael was a very private man who didn’t enjoy being in the public spotlight, especially after that whole man-boy controversy,” Lonife says. “In fact, we were well paid and contractually obligated to keep his surgeries secret so that nobody would know the pain and suffering Michael endured to improve his appearance for his many, many faithful fans around the world.”

Now Jackson has passed, Lonife said, “we feel the public deserves to know the truth. The face and body that Michael presented to the public in videos, television shows and movies were not entirely his. With his guidance and financial backing, we enhanced his looks in subtle ways that were extremely difficult to detect unless you analyzed the modifications in side-by-side photos under powerful magnifiers. Virtually no part of his body was left untouched. We’re very proud of our work because it was almost undectable to the untrained eye yet cumulatively very transformative.”

Lonife said countless Americans benefitted from Jackson’s work.

“Many of these cutting-edge procedures were experimental and unproven until Michael underwent them,” Lonife said. “Today, however, millions of people can get a Michael Douglas chin, Bambi eyelids or a Brazilian booty thanks to Michael’s bravery.”

“We admired him greatly,” Lonife said, adding that the surgeons “will miss him–especially since some of us still have kids in college but no long have what we called fondly referred to  as ‘Michael’s Annuity’ to help pay the bills.”

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