Marilyn Monroe: An Influential Business Woman

It’s very rare that you come across someone who has not heard the name Marilyn Monroe, though the majority of people think of the iconic woman as simply a sex symbol. She was not just a dumb blonde, as most people thought. There is more to her than most of the world knows. Marilyn Monroe was more than just Marilyn Monroe she was Norma Jeane Mortensen. Upon closer investigation of her life however, it becomes evident that Marilyn Monroe was intelligent, a powerful business woman, and her iconic name merely a pseudonym.
Marilyn Monroe was a very intelligent woman, although not very many people know it. Her talents and academic achievements were overshadowed by her fame. She had an IQ of 168, while the average IQ is only 90 to 110, and had a passion …show more content…
Marilyn Monroe was just a character to hide who Norma Jeane really was, a girl who lived in 11 foster homes, never really had parents, but had a love for literature with a kind heart and was driven by life. Most people may not know she loved charity and gardening as well. Monroe legally changed her name to Marilyn Monroe, and the change reflected many tragic memories about her personal life. Marilyn Monroe the iconic sex symbol was an escape from reality, she was so much more than what she represented. She once went to lunch with author Pal Truman Capote and went to the powder room and was there for a while, when he found her she was looking in the mirror and he asked what she was doing and she replied “looking at her.” The fame made her Marilyn Monroe, she was being controlled by doctors and her handlers, she didn’t have contact with real people, she was subject to monarch mind control. She was under a dictatorship, stripped of her own will. She tried escaping her identity as a sex symbol. A few weeks before her death she mentioned she was tired of the fame, she was ready for a normal life. “Usually when you scratch behind those stories there’s a human being who