Why did David Bowie have two different eyes?
David Bowie's eyes, which appeared to be of different colors, were difficult not to notice. Bowie had a condition called anisocoria - which meant his pupils were different sizes. That was a consequence of a serious injury at school in 1962 when his friend George Underwood punched him in the left eye during a fight over a girl, and doctors feared he would become blind in that eye, but his pupils only remained different in size. This gave the illusion of a difference in color, explains. The left eye yet appears to look grayer and/or darker.
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William Laughlin
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Take your homophobic comments and stick them where decent people don't have to be expised to your uninformed nonsense and bigotry!
Donna Carder-Kummer
I just looked up the facts on this because I thought he was born with this condition too. The facts I found state he did get in a fight at 15 years old over s girl and ended up with the injured pupil permanently dilated which caused it to be larger, anisocoria! The other boy, George Underwood and him remained friends, he played in David’s band until he left to pursue his art! That’s what I found in my search, look it up!
Savagemama
Not that google is always right, but it does say it was from getting punched in the eye. I read a biography of Bowie many years ago that said that also. I remembered and got it right!!
Margaret Martin
For all those folks stating other theories Bowie reiterated this fact many times, I think the man himself knows why his eyes were different
Gery Tillmanns
Keith Klahn, did you read the explination?
lady draggon
Very short answer with little information - given how much I get picked up for short answers when I try to write questions!
✨KRISTA✨
I thought he got hit in the eye with a belt buckle while fighting actually.👁
Fleuriefirst
Poor wording since we all have two different eyes, perhaps ‘oddly matched’ would have been better?
Akeel1701
dickahern, 1862? What was he, a Time Traveller?
flanderschristy
Very interesting, I did not know that. Nor did I ever notice a difference in his eye.
Cottec
Got it saw a Bowie documentary.
Lynne Zeman
Knew it was due to an "accident" but did not know the cause.
Jean Gailer
Not right
David Taylor
Read this in his book
Dave Searle
40.5k can't be wrong eh ... its common knowledge that he was hit in the eye
patrhea
Well, at least I'm counted in with the majority here!. Good company to be in though, even if we did miss it!
Louise C.
williamrlaughlin, Thank you for your comment, it is terrible when people make those inane sort of comments on this site, maybe they do it for the attention.
Louise C.
This is ridiculous, all this fuss over one question, calm down people,this is only a quiz question.
Doris Syrakos
I learned that people born with different color eyes, is called “heterochromia”.