I never heard some of the things said here about being an overt slob but I saw a photo of her which I am posting here of her getting out of a shower with a caption that said something like, (can’t remember exact wording) “Surely the beautiful Marilyn Monroe is not going to put on such dirty slippers?!”
I did hear rumors about her having atrocious feminine hygiene. She didn’t wear feminine products when she was menstruating. I don’t know how that is possible since surely it would have been visible to many.
As far as flatulence, she did have gall-bladder disease which can cause that, and had to have it removed. The surgeon did a terrible job and left her with a horrible scar that must have had an effect on her psyche, especially for someone who’s stock in trade was her looks. The surgery wasn’t too long before her death. I am posting a picture of that too. The photographer who took this for Life Magazine, but never used it for the mag, claimed she was extremely drunk during the shoot.
One must remember that Marilyn was always an insecure human being ever since she was a child. Besides having a mentally ill mother, she also had an unstable childhood, being shuffled from one foster household to the next. There is no doubt in my mind that she was also sexually abused as a child. By the time of her death, she was not only suffering from clinical depression, but was also an addict and alcoholic by self-medicating that illness. Sadly, Marilyn didn’t have anyone who cared enough about her to do an intervention. Some mention friends like Frank Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio, but it appeared that neither ever really tried to help her beyond financial assistance and moral support at times. A week or so before her death, Frank Sinatra threw her under the bus when she disrupted a party he had where she got drunk and rowdy. I don’t necessarily blame him as people suffering from depression and addiction are often unruly and uncontrollable, and it is said that she was also not the easiest person to be around when she was drunk. I guess people just got fed up with her bad behavior. Whatever the case, she had a sad life, despite the glitz and glamor portrayed on the screen.
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