It does appear that way. He definitely had a body image disturbance. I feel sorry for him as I think his strange behaviors and problems resulted from beatings by his father and by losing his childhood to being a star.
I thought he did his best work when MTV first came out in the early 1980s. Back then there were so many excellent videos on MTV including many of MJ’s. MTV is awful now days. I can’t stand watching it. The reality shows are for losers and the people in them are losers as well.