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Former baseball player, Sammy Sosa stuns many with his new skin tone
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Sosa in 1989 with Texas, in 2004 with the Cubs and this week in Las Vegas.
Former major league baseball player, Sammy Sosa, whose career is best highlighted by the six years he played for the Chicago Cubs, stunned many during the Latin Grammys in Las Vegas when his skin appeared dramatically lighter than his original skin tone. The photos which also show his wife Sonia have been flying across the Internet sending many to speculate on the odd transformation.
Some have been saying the drastic skin lightening can be due to skin bleaching, while others think that steroid use could have caused vitiligo, the same skin pigment disease Michael Jackson was believed to of had. However, no clearcut evidence exists that there is a link between excessive steroid use and skin disorders.
Baseball aficionados may remember that magical summer of 1998 where Sosa and Mark McGuire were in an unofficial competition for hitting home runs placing them in the position to break Roger Maris' home run record.
Sosa who enjoyed time as one of baseball's favorites fell out of grace for many when he was caught using a corked bat in 2003 and it was revealed in June 2009 he was one of the major league players who tested positive for using performance enhancing drugs in 2003, a charge that Sosa testified was untrue. Sosa, who still has the title of the Cubs number one home run-hitter ended his MLB career in 2007 with his original team, the Texas Rangers.
Besides the notice in skin tone, the picture also shows Sosa wearing green contacts. The photo is incredibly shocking to many because he was photoed in May of this year during a magazine event looking his normal complexion, but flash forward six months later and his skin is now appearing to be turning white.
Rebecca Polihronis, a former Chicago Cubs employee who is still friends with Sosa says there's no way he bleached his skin and says a skin rejuvenation process is the cause of the skin lightening.
Polihronis stated, "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 (the photo appearance) is just the lighting. He was doing a dermatological skin process after years and years (of playing baseball) in the sun. It did come out looking weird (in the picture)."
The skin rejuvenation process Sosa is reported to have been going under has a disclaimer that the treatment can cause the area to look darker or lighter. What do you think? Bleached skin? Performance enhancing drugs from the past causing a bad reaction or is his new skin tone just a side effect of a skin rejuvenation treatment?
Click here to view NBC Philadelphia's look at Sammy Sosa's appearance throughout the years, from his early baseball days to the photos taken yesterday.
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