Does that condition cause a difference in the size of the pupils? 'Cause that picture of Bowie is freaky!
I'm not sure if the enlarged pupil is a result of originally being punched, or if this incident ...
http://www.jengajam.com/r/David-...d-Bowie-
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... from a couple of years ago when an errant lollipop lodged in his eye was responsible.
Technically, David Bowie's condition is NOT heterochromia. Heterochromia is when a person is born with eyes that have differing pigments in each eye. Some individuals exhibit two entirely separate colors in each eye, and some people have different pigments in just part of one of their eyes (i.e. Kate Bosworth). Both of David Bowie's eyes are the same color; one appears darker because of his permanently enlarged iris, which was caused by an injury as a teenager.
"When Bowie was fifteen years old, his friend, George Underwood, wearing a ring on his finger, punched him in the left eye during a fight over a girl. Bowie was forced to stay out of school for eight months so that doctors could conduct operations to repair his potentially blinded eye.Doctors could not fully repair the damage, leaving his pupil permanently dilated. As a result of the injury, Bowie has faulty depth perception."
it's not heterochromia, he really has anisocoria where the pupil is messed up and doesn't move, staying small or really large. David Bowie happens to have one pupil permamently large because his friend punched him in the eye.
As other people have said..he does not have different coloured eyes, it only appears that way because his pupil is permanently dialated because he was punched when he was younger.
Your posts seem very inforamtive but please do proper research before making a post like this.
actually hetrochromia is a difference in the color of each eye. One of Bowie's eyes simply has a permanently dilated pupil which is a separate condition from hetrochromia.
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