FACTS ABOUT MARILYN MONROE THAT YOU PROBABLY DIDN'T KNOW

MARILYN SPENT MOST OF HER EARLY

CHILDHOOD IN FOSTER HOMES AND

ORPHANAGES BECAUSE HER MOTHER

WAS COMMITTED TO A MENTAL INSTITUTION.

LATER, SHE LIVED WITH HER MOTHER’S

BEST FRIEND, GRACE MCKEE, AND HER

FAMILY. AT SIXTEEN, WHEN MCKEE COULD

NO LONGER TAKE CARE OF HER, MARILYN

GOT MARRIED TO AVOID RETURNING TO

THE ORPHANAGE

ACCORDING TO HER FIRST HUSBAND,

JAMES DOUGHERTY, SHE HAD A GREAT LOVE

FOR ANIMALS AND THE HOMELESS. ONCE,

SHE TRIED TO BRING A COW INTO THEIR

HOME TO GET IT OUT OF THE RAIN

SHE WAS “DISCOVERED” BY PRESS

PHOTOGRAPHERS DURING A WORLD WAR II

PHOTO SHOOT AT THE RADIOPLANE PLANT

IN CALIFORNIA OWNED BY ACTOR REGINALD

DENNY. SHE WAS ONE OF THE PLANT’S EMPLOYEES

WHEN THE BUDDING ACTRESS SHELLEY WINTERS

AND MARILYN WERE ROOMMATES IN THE LATE

1940'S IN HOLLYWOOD, SHELLEY SAID THAT

ONE DAY SHE HAD TO LEAVE AND HAD ASKED

MARILYN TO WASH THE LETTUCE FOR A

SALAD THEY WERE GOING TO SHARE FOR

DINNER. WHEN SHE GOT BACK, MARILYN HAD

THE LETTUCE LEAVES IN A SMALL TUB OF

SOAPY WATER AND WAS SCRUBBING THEM

CLEAN. APPARENTLY, MARILYN WASN’T

GOOD AT COOKING

MANY PEOPLE MIGHT NOT KNOW THIS,

BUT MARILYN WASN’T HER REAL NAME.

ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1956, SHE

OBTAINED AN ORDER FROM THE CITY COURT

OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK TO LEGALLY

CHANGE HER BIRTH NAME FROM NORMA

JEANE MORTENSON TO MARILYN MONROE

IN HER AUTOBIOGRAPHY, MY STORY, SHE

RECOUNTED THAT HER GUARDIAN TOLD HER

SHE WAS A DIRECT DESCENDANT OF JAMES

MONROE. HER MOTHER’S MAIDEN NAME WAS

MONROE, BUT THERE IS NO EVIDENCE SHE

WAS A DESCENDANT OF THE U.S. PRESIDENT

MARILYN SUFFERED FROM ENDOMETRIOSIS, A

CONDITION IN WHICH TISSUES OF THE UTERUS

LINING LEAVE THE UTERUS, ATTACH

THEMSELVES TO OTHER PARTS OF THE BODY

AND GROW, CAUSING PAIN, IRREGULAR BLEEDING

AND IN SEVERE CASES, INFERTILITY

MONROE WAS ALSO A STUTTERER, A LITTLE

KNOWN FACT THAT WAS EASILY COVERED

THANKS TO STUDIO VOCAL COACHES WHO

PROVIDED HER WITH DICTATION LESSONS

SHE REPORTEDLY BECAME PREGNANT TWICE,

IN JULY 1957 AND NOVEMBER 1958, DURING

HER MARRIAGE TO ARTHUR MILLER, BUT

ON BOTH OCCASIONS SHE SUFFERED

MISCARRIAGES