Beauty secrets of Marilyn Monroe

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Marilyn Monroe left a simple beauty formula: “I know one thing: beauty and femininity have no age, and these qualities cannot be created. Women's charms cannot be produced industrially, no matter how much someone might want it. I mean true beauty. Femininity gives birth to it.”

Trying to replicate the charms of Hollywood's most luxurious blonde is truly futile. One can only admire the ability to ignite the hearts of men even after death. Admire and learn from her.

Lesson One: Believe in Yourself

Marilyn Monroe was a walking encyclopedia of the secrets of female attractiveness. Her phrases were scattered into quotes, passed from mouth to mouth like secret knowledge. After all, who else knew so much about male nature? It is she who owns the famous aphorisms: “Give a girl a pair of high-heeled shoes, and she will conquer the whole world!”, “I am most definitely a woman, and this makes me happy.” Well, she had the right to teach others. After all, perhaps no other woman initially had less chance of success than a girl from a dysfunctional family with a family curse of madness hanging over her and the nicknames “mouse” and “bean” behind her. However, this inconspicuous coal made itself a shining diamond.

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The same thing can be said about Marilyn Monroe as about Scarlett O'Hara, to slightly paraphrase the writer Margaret Mitchell: she was not a beauty, but men were hardly aware of this if they fell under the fire of her charms. Actors and athletes, writers and presidents - no one could resist her if she used her charm. She herself explained her secret of success very simply: “Always believe in yourself, because if you don’t believe, then who else will?”

Lesson two: your own Pygmalion

Hair, lips and, to be honest, a luxurious bust - this is the formula for success! This is the first thing that comes to mind when the name Marilyn Monroe is mentioned, but how much of it was real? Definitely not hair! In all the childhood photographs, Norma Jean Baker (née Morteson), as she was then called, had straight, reddish-brown hair. Norma becomes platinum blonde during her first marriage. But if wonderful hair is not a gift from nature, then maybe breasts?

There is evidence that Marilyn Monroe turned to surgeons several times, but the secret of treatment remained sealed. So, when on November 11, 1954, Marilyn was discharged from a Los Angeles clinic, where she was undergoing some kind of operation, the doctors gave only a meager comment on this matter: “correction of feminine qualities.” Spiteful critics claim that in photographs of Monroe from different periods, the “golden bust,” as contemporaries called it, either increases or decreases, although the concept of “Photoshop” did not exist then. It is possible that Marilyn injected paraffin into her breasts to increase their size.

Some biographers have attributed the secret of Marilyn's ample bust to special bras with shaper pads. By the way, this guess was confirmed after Monroe's death. One of the employees of the funeral home, which took over the organization of the actress’s funeral, stole the pillows directly from the body of the legendary blonde to later sell at auction. Thus, the bust was another feature of her appearance that Marilyn made herself.

What about the lips? Cosmetics played an important role in transforming the modest Norma Jean into a woman of the century. She loved perfume and was literally obsessed with skin care. Let's add to this an exciting gait, which has become another recognizable feature of Monroe. They said that Marilyn specially filed her heels so that her hips would sway appetizingly when walking.

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“Two things should be beautiful in a girl: her eyes and her lips, because with her eyes she can make you fall in love, and with her lips she can prove that she loves,” Marilyn said and never tired of confirming this in practice. She, like Pygmalion, created a magnificent Galatea from herself with a thoughtfulness that it is impossible not to admire, sculpting her image carefully, brick by brick, as they build a house for centuries. And one can only envy Monroe’s ability to make secrets out of the most seemingly ordinary facts!

Lesson three: don't be afraid of change

She knew for sure that men always praised women first of all for their “beautiful wrapper” and only then for everything else. Marilyn was fanatical about her appearance. Later, James Doherty, her first husband, recalled his ex-wife’s unusual habit, as it seemed to him, of constantly rubbing her face with olive oil. Apparently, it was James's affairs with other women that forced Norma to radically change her image in order to become the best of the best.

In 1942, Norma Jeane got a job at the Radioplane Company plant, where a team of directors and photographers soon arrived for another photo report. Photographer David Conover took a series of photographs of the girl. For the first time, she felt that she was capable of something more than spending her entire life sorting out parts in a factory.

“Looking at the night sky, I thought that there were probably thousands of girls also sitting alone and dreaming of becoming a star. But I wasn't going to worry about them. After all, my dream cannot be compared with anyone else’s,” Norma said to herself and, having divorced James, she set off to conquer America. The sexy model was offered a contract at the 20th Century Fox film studio on one condition - that she change her name. Norma had no more place in her current life.

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In her marriage to her first husband, Norma developed the main rule for herself: “Wise girls kiss but do not love, listen but do not believe, and leave before they are abandoned.” Not afraid of divorce and the unknown, she set off to conquer the heights of fame. And when she was asked to change her name, she reasoned like this: Men may neglect Norma Jeane, but Marilyn Monroe will be remembered forever. And they remembered!

Lesson Four: Sports Passion

By 1948, when the film Chorus Girls was released, the actress had perfected her appearance by straightening and whitening her teeth. Photos of the brilliant blonde sold out like hot cakes. Her beauty seemed simple, like milk and honey. It is not surprising that the directors chose for her exactly those roles that could make every soldier want this “girl next door.” Marilyn herself never abandoned the image she once found, but was constantly looking for new angles.

She knew very well what men wanted. Thus, the world famous baseball player Joseph Paul DiMaggio became interested in Marilyn when he saw a photograph of her playing baseball. Not only was the blond beast incredibly pretty, but they also had common interests (and apart from sports, Joe was not interested in anything)! Marilyn did not dissuade the charming athlete.

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She realized very quickly that men fall in love with the dreams they create for themselves. The actress admitted: “I have never fooled anyone. I just let people fool themselves. They didn't try to understand who or what I really was. Instead, they created my character themselves. I didn't argue with them." This wise policy helped Monroe string men's hearts on a string like beads.

Lesson Five: Having an Affair with a Writer

Jealousy also destroyed Marilyn's second marriage. Only this time it was not she who was jealous, but Joe. Years later, Joe admits that if he were Marilyn, he would “divorce himself too.” The athlete could not forget his ex-wife. Shortly before Marilyn's death, they reunited and were even planning to remarry.

In the meantime, the actress was charming another famous man. In 1956, the actress's acquaintance with the writer Arthur Miller develops into love, and then into marriage. And again, it is not a real woman who appears on the stage of family life, but a carefully created image. Arthur Miller no longer gets an athletic blonde, like his predecessor, but an educated beauty. Marilyn appears in public only with a book in her hands. Love from photography again? Oh yeah! Marilyn even writes poetry and dedicates it to her husband: “Your heart is the only thing that gives me happiness and pride.”

This marriage could not withstand Marilyn’s popularity, but many years later the very old Arthur Miller would secretly leave his wife and children for a small studio where he kept films with the participation of his ex-wife. You can part with her, forget her - never!

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I remember Chekhov’s “Darling”, which adapted to its men. Monroe, who attended Mikhail Chekhov's theater courses, was very familiar with this heroine and learned a lot from her. She knew how to use her strengths, because, no matter what they say, Monroe was a great actress.

Lesson Six: Mr. President

It seemed that all of Marilyn's previous marriages were preparing her for the most important meeting of her life. That’s right, Marilyn is aiming for an affair with President John Kennedy - after all, she always chooses the best! Now that she is at the peak of her form, who could resist this most charming goddess? Certainly not Senator Kennedy (he was still a senator at the time). At the party where they met, John flirted recklessly with Marilyn. Later, when Kennedy becomes a presidential candidate, he asks Monroe to take part in the campaign. And she is not afraid to disrupt filming schedules in order to travel around the states for her loved one.

Interestingly, Monroe still considers beauty to be her main assistant in love affairs. When her lover begins to forget her, she decides to remind herself in an extravagant way: she orders a dress from a fashion designer who created the famous concert outfit for Marlene Dietrich, with whom John Kennedy also once had an affair. Marilyn wants to prove to John that she is no worse than his ex-women and at the same time evoke the necessary romantic associations. Marilyn wears a translucent dress without underwear and appears in this form at a gala concert in honor of President Kennedy's birthday. There she sings the song Happy Birthday so openly that the air thickens with passion. Of course, this impromptu, like all other actions, is carefully prepared.

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Monroe benefited from relationships with any of her men. With her first husband, she learned to take care of her appearance, the second told her how to take care of her own body, communication with the third replenished her intellectual luggage. In her notebooks, Marilyn sets development vectors: “always work on acting exercises,” “take care of your instrument - mentally and physically (exercises).”

She was an excellent strategist who knew exactly what she wanted. Is this why millions of men’s hearts still beat faster at the sound of her name?..

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Marilyn Monroe: the standard of eternal femininity and style icon

The object of dreams of millions of men and the sex symbol of America! She dreamed of serious dramatic roles, but directors only used her sex appeal. She experienced many affairs, but her diaries are full of notes about global loneliness. Marilyn Monroe, or Norma Jeane Baker, would have turned 90 today. The short but colorful life of the most famous blonde in Hollywood was recalled by MIR 24 TV channel correspondent Gleb Sterkhov.

In 1962, director George Cukor was filming what turned out to be the last and unfinished film with Marilyn, Something's Gotta Give. In a year, barely half of the film was shot, and then Marilyn Monroe passed away. And everyone moved on to something else. Her biography, her “piquant charisma.” Lifetime and “after”.

She was born in 1926 in Los Angeles. On the birth certificate, the family name is Norma Jeane Mortenson, baptized Jean Baker. She was born at half past ten in the morning on June 1 in the city hospital. Recorded as the third child of a simple “film editor” Gladys Pearl, née Monroe. Years later, this birth certificate was bought for a fortune.