Oprah : So I'm wondering for you, being this cute little boy who everybody adored and everybody who comes up to you they're pulling your cheeks and how cute, how adolescence going through that duck stage where everything's awkward, and I'm wondering when you started to go through adolescence having been this child superstar, was that a particularly difficult time for you?

Michael : Very. Very, very difficult, yes. Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever.

Oprah : Who's they?

Michael : The public. And um, nature takes its course.

Oprah : It does?

Michael : Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy, I used not to look at myself, I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried every day.

Oprah : Your father teased you about your pimples?

Michael : Yes and tell me I'm ugly.

Oprah : Your father would say that?

Michael : Yes he would. Sorry Joseph.

Michael Jackson in the Oprah interview 1993.

"Adolescence proved awkward for Michael too. He sprouted from just over five feet to five feet ten. Overnight, it seemed, he went from a cute little boy to a gangly teenager. Certain body parts outgrew others, and now Michael was the object of merciless ribbing, especially from his father. "Look at that big nose on your face," Joseph used to taunt. "I don't know where you got that from... Big nose."

LaToya Jackson, Michael's sister.

"When Tito and Jackie really want us mad' they call Jermaine 'Big Head,' Marlon 'Liver lips' and they call me 'Big Nose.'"

Young Michael Jackson.