Marilyn Monroe. Americas hottest heartthrob of the 1950’s. A sex icon who was considered a bubbly blonde who personified sexy innocence. Marilyn, born Norma Jean Mortenton on June 1st, 1926, had a life of unexpectancy.She started her career as a pinup model at the age of 19. Who, by then, already been married for three years. Her reason to fame wasn't necessarily that she was a model, or an actress, or even a singer, but because of her tragic flaws. Marilyn's tragic flaw was a complete and utter beautiful disaster. When she was found dead at the age of 36, it blindsighted the nation. This was a magnifying glass into who Marilyn Monroe really was. Falling to this disaster due to her rising fame in Hollywood, her devastating childhood, and her
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Born in the prohibition, her mother, Gladys Pearl Baker, who was a flapper and worked for Consolidated Film Industries, saw something in her daughter, but didn't quite know what it was. Marilyn knew this too from the time she was a child. “When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be in an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me, it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries...when I heard this was called acting, I said that's what I want to be.” (M. Marilyn, personal communication, 1962). From the beginning Marilyn knew who she was destined to be, so she made it happen. Her first “acting” job we really a photo shoot for an agency calling women to work during the war. She was nineteen, gorgeous, and physically fit, the ideal demographic for who they wanted. Although she was told she was beautiful, she kept changing things about herself so that she could …show more content…
Marilyn is a product of her environment, and her environment was a child is one of that would amaze you. Marilyn's mother was mentally ill and unfit to care for a child at such a young age. She signed over half of her rights and put Marilyn in foster care, which was not a solid system back in the 1940’s. The first foster home she went to and always came back to was her mother's friend Grace. Grace’s family was very religious and took Marilyn to christian services weekly. She stayed with these people until she was eight years old, ,during this time at Grace’s house she was smothered at the age of two by Grace’s husband Doc, and molested by Doc as well, her mother came back and took Marilyn to live with her. Soon after, Gladys had a mental breakdown and was diagnosed with Paranoid Schizophrenia. Gladys then went to stay in the Metropolitan State Hospital where Marilyn would see her on rare occasion. After this, Marilyn was a ward if the state, one of her aunts took Marilyn in. From there Marilyn was under the custody of this family, but Marilyn would bounce from foster home to foster home and switch schools repeatedly. She lived with one family, the Atkinson’s where she was sexually abused by the husband. Because of this, Marilyn became paranoid, anxious, depressed, withdrawn from the people she loved, and just different. Marilyn was only fourteen years old when she was raped. After this, she
Born in the prohibition, her mother, Gladys Pearl Baker, who was a flapper and worked for Consolidated Film Industries, saw something in her daughter, but didn't quite know what it was. Marilyn knew this too from the time she was a child. “When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be in an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me, it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries...when I heard this was called acting, I said that's what I want to be.” (M. Marilyn, personal communication, 1962). From the beginning Marilyn knew who she was destined to be, so she made it happen. Her first “acting” job we really a photo shoot for an agency calling women to work during the war. She was nineteen, gorgeous, and physically fit, the ideal demographic for who they wanted. Although she was told she was beautiful, she kept changing things about herself so that she could …show more content…
Marilyn is a product of her environment, and her environment was a child is one of that would amaze you. Marilyn's mother was mentally ill and unfit to care for a child at such a young age. She signed over half of her rights and put Marilyn in foster care, which was not a solid system back in the 1940’s. The first foster home she went to and always came back to was her mother's friend Grace. Grace’s family was very religious and took Marilyn to christian services weekly. She stayed with these people until she was eight years old, ,during this time at Grace’s house she was smothered at the age of two by Grace’s husband Doc, and molested by Doc as well, her mother came back and took Marilyn to live with her. Soon after, Gladys had a mental breakdown and was diagnosed with Paranoid Schizophrenia. Gladys then went to stay in the Metropolitan State Hospital where Marilyn would see her on rare occasion. After this, Marilyn was a ward if the state, one of her aunts took Marilyn in. From there Marilyn was under the custody of this family, but Marilyn would bounce from foster home to foster home and switch schools repeatedly. She lived with one family, the Atkinson’s where she was sexually abused by the husband. Because of this, Marilyn became paranoid, anxious, depressed, withdrawn from the people she loved, and just different. Marilyn was only fourteen years old when she was raped. After this, she