A smart woman perceived as frivolous flirt: why people hated Marilyn Monroe and what her first Playboy cover looked like

On August 4, 1962, at the age of 36, Marilyn Monroe, an undoubtedly significant historical figure, died under mysterious circumstances. The model, actress, and socialite who gave the world many good roles and became a sex symbol and a cult figure of a blonde flirt, actually was smart and had fears and a difficult life.

However, she knew how to pretend to be light-hearted and infantile when it could bring Monroe what she wanted. OBOZ.UA decided to recall what the model was afraid of, why she was hated, and how Marilyn became a symbol of the iconic Playboy magazine.

Life's vicissitudes

The spectacular beauty, who was named Norma Jean Baker at birth, grew up in a difficult environment. Her father was a man who disowned his child and never responded to her requests for a meeting. Marilyn's mother was a film editor, but she spent very little time with her children and eventually ended up in a psychiatric hospital. During her lifetime, the girl was handed over to 11 foster parents.

At the age of 16, a schoolgirl who was abandoned by everyone married a boyfriend who was much older than her in order to avoid returning to the orphanage. However, their marriage was unhappy, and the young blonde left her family to become a model.

In the end, Monroe had many affairs in her life, but none of them brought her happiness. She repeatedly got into scandals because of her allegedly intimate relationships with influential men.

The most prominent figure of Marilyn's "lover" is the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy. Some theories even implicate him in the model's death. In his 1969 book Norma Jean: The life of Marilyn Monroe, biographer Fred Lawrence Giles claimed that the actress had an abortion in July 1962, less than a month before her death. She had no children because she suffered a miscarriage and almost committed suicide.

What was hidden behind the image of a flirt

Analyzing Monroe's mannerisms, voice, photos, and roles, one might immediately assume that she was a frivolous flirt who knew how to win men's hearts, knew her worth, and was skilled at using her appearance. However, behind this facade was a very smart woman who did not neglect self-development.

It is believed that her IQ was 168 points, and the model's personal library included more than 400 books that she read. Although the information about her IQ is called unconfirmed, the star's biographer noted that she was very intelligent and was always developing.

Nude photos

It was during Monroe's popularity that Playboy was founded. She was the first woman to appear on the cover. In 1953, the beauty posed in a revealing swimsuit at the time, so Marilyn was associated with the image.

Why the model was hated

People had different reasons to dislike Monroe. Women were jealous of her success and attention from men, movie producers blamed her for being late and forgetting the text, and Kennedy was believed to be afraid of the discovery of their affair.

The flamboyant personality made a lot of enemies, so her death is rather called murder. There are theories that Monroe was killed and that someone made to look like a suicide.

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