Marilyn Monroe was born as Norma Jean Mortenson on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, California. She was delivered to foster parents, Albert and Ida Bolender. She Grew up living with several families during her childhood and, in 1935 at age nine, entered an orphanage where she lived until June 1937. When she grew up, she was beginning to understand why she had spent most of her time in orphanages. She wanted to get away from life in the orphanages and foster hom

es. She felt that one of her only escapes was to get married. Her first marriage was at the young age of 16. She was married to Jimmy Dougherty on June 19, 1942. Shortly after their marriage, her new husband was called to military service. There was a surplus of jobs since the men were at war, so she got a job at an airplane factory. The Army sent a photographer to take pictures of women helping with the war effort. The photographer was impressed with her looks and suggested she apply for a modeling position at the Blue Book model agency. She applied and was accepted. This began her modeling career. By 1946 she was on 33 magazine covers and was posing for top photographers.

Soon after the war, she and Jimmy got divorced, and she became involved with other men. Shortly after, she was signed by the 20th Century-Fox film studio in 1946 but had only two small film roles before the studio dropped her. In 1950, 20th Century-Fox signed Monroe to another contract, and over the next few years she appeared in a series of small parts in films that began to gain her increased attention. In 1953, she became involved with baseball great, Joe DiMaggio. They fell in love and in January of 1954, they got married in San Francisco. However, problems arose in their marriage and in October 1954, they were divorced. Shortly after

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