![]() ![]() He saved her from the foster care system. Monroe married James Dougherty at 16 in 1942. She dropped out of high school at 15 and used her sex and body to escape poverty. While in foster care, she was sexually assaulted multiple times and raped at the age of 11. She lived with friends of her mother, Grace and Doc Goddard, for a time in the 1930s, but when Doc’s work sent the couple west, they gave Monroe back to foster care. One of her first memories was her mother trying to smother her with a pillow while she lay in a crib. She had a half-sister, but they were never close. She had an absent father, and her mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was in and out of psychiatric facilities. Marilyn Monroe was born in Los Angeles on June 1, 1926. Troubled Beginnings Marilyn Monroe before she reached popularity. Despite all of the negativity around her, she became the universal symbol of femininity and was at the top of the Hollywood A List. Under the ever so narrow view of society, Monroe was criticized and shamed for the ways she acted and presented herself. ![]() She was one of the biggest sex symbols of her generation and was often sexualized, objectified, copied, abused and manipulated. ![]() Marilyn Monroe as Elsie in The Prince and The Showgirlīorn Norma Jean Mortenson and baptized as Norma Jean Baker, Marilyn Monroe was one of the most successful actresses of the twentieth century, with her films grossing more than $200 million in total. ![]()
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