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Sammy Sosa with wife Sonya fuels rumours of skin bleaching - Source: Reuters
Former baseball pro Sammy Sosa fuelled plenty of speculation after showing up at the Latin Grammy Awards looking several shades lighter than usual.
Photographs prompted an uproar around the internet with everyone wondering what happened to Sosa.
"He's not trying to be Michael Jackson," former Chicago Cubs employee Rebecca Polihronis, who talks frequently with Sosa, told the Chicago Tribune newspaper.
"He is going through a rejuvenation process for his skin. 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."
Polihronis said Sosa told her the photos are deceiving.
"He was doing a dermatological skin process after years and years [of playing baseball] in the sun," Polihronis said.
"It did come out looking weird" in the photos.
