By Mike Celizic
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 9:41 a.m. CT, Mon., Jan. 7, 2008
Paul Karason gives new meaning to the phrase “feeling blue.”
The auburn-bearded 57-year-old Californian goes through life being stared at and being hailed as “Papa Smurf” because his skin is the color of a ripe Concord grape.
“I’m the blue guy,” he confirmed with a chuckle to TODAY co-host Matt Lauer in Studio 1A on Monday. “It’s everywhere I go,” he said of the stares his skin color attracts. “I’ve gotten kind of used to it. I’m rather inured to it.”
Karason’s skin started turning blue nearly 10 years ago when he used a used a silver preparation to treat a bad case of dermatitis on his face that broke out due to stress when his father died.
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I had actually heard about this a while ago, but forgot about it entirely... Shows you how strange the body is.
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