Sammy Sosa Pictures

Written on November 9, 2009 – 9:39 pm | by admin | | Tags: sammy sosa, sammy sosa bleached skin, sammy sosa picture, sammy sosa pictures, sammy sosa skin, sammy sosa white

Sammy Sosa Pictures: Bleached Skin?

Sammy Sosa, a former Major League Baseball star sure looks different lately. We don’t recall him having bleached skin back in his late 1990s, home run heyday. Yeah, that’s because he didn’t. However, Sammy Sosa Pictures last week revealed a surprising, which taken at an event in Las Vegas comically light skin pigmentation on him.

Just check out these then-and-now pics:

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What’s with the skin bleaching, Sammy? While no cause at this time has been concretely established, some fans have speculated that what behind these are Sosa’s rampant steroid use in the ’90s and 2000s.

Although they cannot prove it, many have posited that steroid use could dramatically increase an individual’s likelihood of becoming symptomatic with vitiligo. That rare chronic disorder, which causes cells responsible for skin pigmentation to stop functioning, has gained much notoriety because of Michael Jackson.

In June, it was reported that Sosa, who rose to fame as prolific home run hitter in the late ’90s, tested positive for steroids in 2003, to the surprise of no one. The Chicago Tribune quotes an acquaintance of Sosa, Rebecca Polihronis, who claims that “he is going through a rejuvenation process for his skin.”

“He is going through a rejuvenation process for his skin,” Polihronis said. “Women have it all of the time. He was surprised he came out looking so white. I thought it was a body double. Part of is just the lighting.”

Really? Just click to enlarge these Sammy Sosa Pictures. WTH happened to Sammy’s face?!