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Is Sammy Sosa Lightening His Skin?

By Evil Beet Gossip • on November 15, 2009

Former Major League Baseball player Sammy Sosa might be pulling a Michael Jackson and intentionally lightening his skin. The photograph above shows Sosa at a red carpet event in October of 2003 on the left, and at a similar red carpet event on November 4th of this year on the right.

At first, Sosa denied that he was lightening his skin, and blamed the paleness on both the photographer’s bright flash bulbs and a cream he was using for a “skin condition.” Now, he’s admitted that he uses a cream to “soften his skin” that also just happens to also make it lighter.

Sosa appeared on a Univision program and shed light on his lightened skin:

“I’m doing well, doing well, thanks to God. A little surprised by the tsunami of attention,” Sosa said in a Spanish interview with Univision reporter Tony Dandrades Tuesday. “”It’s a bleaching cream that I apply before going to bed and whitens my skin some.”

“I use a cream to keep my skin smooth and soft. I apply it before I go to bed. When I was playing for Chicago all those years, I was in the sun a lot for 1 o’clock games,” Sosa initially said. “The flashes (from the cameras) also made my skin look lighter. I’m surprised with the controversy this has caused.”

Sosa, who also wears colored contacts said he uses the cream as a moisturizer and is in discussions to market it.

And you know, who hasn’t used a moisturizer that also made their face several shades whiter? Sosa refuses to give the name of the skin scream, but I think we can all believe that he’s telling the truth. It’s not as if he has a history of telling big old fat lies, white or otherwise.

I’ve got some pics of Sosa in the gallery below that range in age from 1999 to present and it looks like the before & after chart on a box of Crest White strips.