The parents
Marilyn's father was non existant in her childhood. "Marilyn's father deserted the family before her birth so she spent most of her childhood not knowing her father's identity. "Once she was famous, she attempted to look for him, but when she found him, he wanted nothing to do with her. He had other kids of his own, but he for some reason did not care to know her.
Her mother loved her very much, and MArilyn loved her mother, but she was mentally insane.
" her mother was mentally unstable and incapable of taking care of her. In My Story, Monroe wrote that she recalled seeing her mother “screaming and laughing” as she was forcibly taken to a State Hospital." Throughout her career, Marilyn would see her mother and spend time with her, but after a while, her mom was back in the mental hospital.
Her mother loved her very much, and MArilyn loved her mother, but she was mentally insane.
" her mother was mentally unstable and incapable of taking care of her. In My Story, Monroe wrote that she recalled seeing her mother “screaming and laughing” as she was forcibly taken to a State Hospital." Throughout her career, Marilyn would see her mother and spend time with her, but after a while, her mom was back in the mental hospital.
foster care
Many people ignore the difficulties Marilyn had her entire life. They choose to look at her from only one point of view. "At age 11, Norma Jeane was declared a ward of the state. She lived in a total of 11 foster homes throughout her youth; when there was no foster home available, she sometimes ended up at the Hollygrove Orphanage in Los Angeles. As if moving from one foster home to another wasn’t difficult enough, Norma Jeane recalled being treated harshly in several of them. Even worse, she was abused in at least three of them." Men and woman had sexually, mentally, and physically abused Marilyn during her childhood, and even into her adulthood.
"For instance, at age 11, Norma Jeane was adopted by her mother’s best friend Grace McKee and her new husband, Ervin Silliman “Doc” Goddard. There, “Doc” repeatedly sexually assaulted her, which forced Norma Jeane to move out. In another case, when she was in middle school, Norma Jean was sent to her great-aunt’s house in Compton, California. There, one of her great-aunt’s sons abused her, forcing her, again, to move out. Here is another account of abuse: An escape When Marilyn couldn't stay at a foster home, she would stay with friends of her mother and her aunt. "She was then sent to live with her great aunt Olive Brunings and it is thought that Norma was sexually assaulted by Olive's son, which some biographers have claimed led to her later behavior, including substance abuse." After a while, her aunt did not want to care for her anymore. She forced Marilyn to get married in order to move out of her home. She said it was the scariest moment of her life because she had never even kissed a boy on the lips let alone marry one. She did not want to get married and have sex with this man, but she ended up doing it anyway. "At 16, she escaped her old life by marrying a 21-year-old aircraft plant worker, Jim Dougherty, who she divorced four years later. By this time she had begun modeling bathing suits and, after bleaching her hair blonde, posed for pin-ups and glamour photos." This job is what sparked her modeling career, and soon to be acting career. She had a natural beauty that people from all over the world wanted to see more of. Her first ever-acting job was her walking across the stage. She didn’t even have one line, but viewer agreed that she was the best part of the film. 20th Century Fox signed Marilyn and that started her career.
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“She told of being whipped by one foster mother for having touched ‘the bad part’ of her body. Another more serious incident occurred when she was eight. One evening a lodger she called Mr. Kimmel (Marilyn said later that this was not his real name) asked her to come into his room and locked the door behind her. He put his arms around her. She kicked and struggled. He did what he wanted, telling her to be a good girl. (In a later interview Marilyn stated that the abuse involved fondling).
When he let her out, he handed her a coin and told her to buy herself an ice cream. She threw the coin in his face and ran to tell her foster mother what happened, but the woman wouldn’t listen. ‘Shame on you,’ her foster mother said. ‘Mr. Kimmel’s my star boarder.’ Norma Jean went to her room and cried all night. Marilyn said she felt dirty and took baths days after it happened to feel clean. Such repeated attempts to feel clean through showers or baths are typical behavior for victims of assault. Marilyn said she began to stutter after the incident and reverted to it at times of stress. When she told one interviewer about the abuse, she began stuttering. The evidence points to the fact that she was an abused child whose early sexualization led to her inappropriate behavior as an adult. |