The Backstory: Marilyn Monroe: The ultimate sex symbol…and victim
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🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
She was the sexiest, most beautiful actress in Hollywood during her short career. But Marilyn Monroe had a heartbreaking childhood with a mentally ill mother. Her upbringing destroyed her self-confidence. And that allowed Hollywood and dozens of men to use and abuse her.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, we all have our mother issues, and in fairness, mothers have their kid issues. |
| 0:05.0 | But imagine your single mother abandons you at a foster home when you're just two weeks old. |
| 0:11.0 | Your childhood becomes a tangled maze through 12 different foster homes, a couple of |
| 0:16.3 | orphanages, and occasional returns to your manic-depressive mom's home. |
| 0:21.5 | Then you have a series of affairs and marriages beginning at 16, some to men who |
| 0:26.8 | beat you. Added to all that, you become this thing, this object. I'm Patty Steele. Marilyn Monroe, arguably the most famous |
| 0:37.3 | sex symbol in Hollywood history and lifelong victim. That's next on the |
| 0:42.3 | backstory. |
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