Image credits: Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Norma Jeane Mortenson as a 15-year-old beauty queen. Image credits: Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Young Norma Jeane Mortenson plays with penguins at the zoo (1941) Image credits: Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Norma Jeane Mortenson at the zoo, with a hornbill on her arm (1941) Image credits: Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Norma Jeane Mortenson poses for a photo with a friend and her baby (1941) Image credits: Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images A teenaged Norma Jeane Mortenson (center) and her friends in a rowboat (1941)
(h/t: all-that-is-interesting, boredpanda)Ī teenaged Norma Jeane Mortenson (center) at an outdoor fete with a group of friends (1941) Scroll down to meet the sincere Norma Jeane Mortenson before she became Marilyn Monroe. She is remembered as a popular culture icon and a sex symbol, however, most forget her troublesome roots when she was just a regular girl in the neighborhood. Soon she became one of the biggest stars in Hollywood and was instantly recognizable, but a troubled girl still hid beneath the fame. This relationship propelled Marilyn’s pin-up modeling career, and the work eventually led to film contracts with Twentieth Century Fox and Columbia Pictures. Army Air Force’s First Motion Picture Unit. Monroe married at the age of sixteen, but that didn’t bring her happiness as well.Įverything changed in 1944 when Monroe was working in a military factory where she was introduced to a photographer from the U.S. She was sexually abused and even started developing a stutter. She moved from one foster home to another, going through traumatic experiences in almost all of them. Born Norma Jeane Mortenson, Monroe had a really tough childhood.
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