Sammy Sosa Celebrates His Birthday & New Face In Miami
Posted on Nov 15, 2009 @ 10:00AM - 2 comments
Sammy Sosa was all smiles as he entered Miami Beach's famed Fontainebleau Hotel Saturday night for his annual birthday bash. Sosa's wife Sonia was on the former slugger's arm. He turned 41 on November 12.
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Sosa's significantly lighter complexion continues to be a hot topic. He went public with it at a Latin Grammy Awards party.
One of baseball's greatest and most controversial players, Sosa said his new look is the result of a "bleaching cream that I apply before going to bed and it whitens my skin some." Friends insists he is not trying to look like Michael Jackson.
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Paulina Rubio performed at the birthday bash.
Sammy Sosa Explains Away Lighter Skin
Posted on Nov 12, 2009 @ 08:31PM - 14 comments
Sammy Sosa set tongues wagging on November 4th when he turned up at an awards ceremony with noticeably lighter skin.
The former Chicago cubs slugger posed for photos on the red carpet at the Latin Grammy Awards with speculation flying that he had bleached his skin or was suffering from a medical condition.
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But according to the Dominican Republic native neither is the case, instead he excused away his paler complexion on the bright television lights and a night cream.
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Sosa, who turned 41 Thursday, told Primer Impacto, a program on the Spanish-language network Univision, "It's a bleaching cream that I apply before going to bed and it whitens my skin some."
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Sosa, who also wears colored contact lenses said he uses the cream as a moisturizer and is in discussions to market it.
Sammy Sosa's Strange Look
Posted on Nov 09, 2009 @ 08:52AM - 2 comments
Sammy Sosa's appearance stunned the media at a Latin Grammys after-party.
Lighter-Skinned Sammy Sosa "Not Trying To Be Michael Jackson," Associate Says
Posted on Nov 09, 2009 @ 07:12AM - 22 comments
Ex-baseball slugger Sammy Sosa is "not trying to be Michael Jackson," a Chicago Cubs employee who talks to the outfielder frequently said after pictures of a dramatically lighter-complected Sosa at an after-party following Thursday's Latin Grammy Awards in Las Vegas, surfaced online.
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