Different Colored Eyes?
People often claim that Bowie had what’s called heterochromia – a genetic condition that results in two different colored eyes. But that’s just not true. Both of his eyes are, in fact, blue. But what people are seeing is an ocular oddity that’s known as anisocoria, which is a permanently dilated pupil. It’s something that happened to Bowie when he was 15 years old after he got into a fight with his friend George Underwood.
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What was the fight about? You guessed it: a girl. “I was so aggrieved I walked over to him, basically, turned him around and went ‘whack’ without even thinking,” is what Underwood said of the incident. It was his fingernail that sliced into Bowie’s eye, by the way.