Early life marilyn monroe

On June 13, 1926, 26-year-old Gladys Baker brought grouping 2-week-old girl, Norma Jeane Mortenson, arrangement the expand home tactic Ida captain Wayne Bolender in Author, California.

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Lost and Never Found —The Early Life and Career of Marilyn Monroe

Up to now, I’ve always hesitated to do a piece on this enduring icon and casualty of Hollywood, simply because so much has already been written about her tragic life and tumultuous career — reportedly well over 500 books. Finally, I resolved to focus on the details of her early life which shaped the fragile, tortured person she’d become.

I thought I knew the whole story, but revisiting it still shocked me: Marilyn was born Norma Jeane Mortenson to an emotionally unstable, impoverished mother in Los Angeles; her real father was unknown, and certainly not Mr. Mortenson, who was separated from Norma Jeane’s mother before she was conceived. Her mother placed her in a foster home shortly after birth, then took her back when Norma Jeane was seven. She then had a nervous breakdown. Finally diagnosed a schizophrenic, she’d be in and out of institutions for the rest of her life.

Norma Jeane lived with the boarders her Mother had taken in, and another lodger in the house molested her a year later; she was just eight years old. Then came another foster home, then an orphanage at age nine. Next, she went to live with her guardian Grace McKee Goddard, whose husband sexually abused her whe