Marilyn Monroe: Inside Her Twisted Mind
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Sex goddess Marilyn Monroe was long on curves but short on sanity — with a new book charging that the starlet exhibited signs of “borderline personality disorder!” “Monroe suffered from severe mental distress,” declared science journalist Claudia Kalb, who studied Marilyn’s medical reports.
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Kalb said Marilyn was seriously sick in the head, and noted that the actress once said she was “never used to being happy.” The thrice-married screen legend — who spent her childhood shuffling through 12 different foster homes — “yearned for love and stability,” he wrote in his book, “Andy Warhol Was a Horder.”
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Legendary private investigator Anthony Summers revealed the true bombshell stories behind Norma Jeane Mortenson's early years in the book "Goddess"—which included her shocking past as a suicidally-depressed call girl!
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During one poverty-stricken period in her life, Marilyn even resorted to picking up men in bars and selling herself for as little as $15 a night! She confided to her drama coach, Lee Strasberg, about her past as an escort. Strasberg recalled: "She told me she was the one summoned if anyone needed a beautiful girl for a convention."
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Marilyn also told writer Ben Hecht that she'd attempted suicide twice before the age of 19 — once by leaving the gas on, and once by swallowing sleeping pills!
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“Her symptoms," said Kalb, "included a feeling of emptiness, a split or confused identity ... unstable relationships, and an impulsivity that drove her to drug addiction and suicide — all textbook characteristics of a condition called borderline personality disorder."
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Marilyn, who was found dead at the age of 36 in her Los Angeles home in 1962, was even needy enough to confess her love affair with President John F. Kennedy in a shocking phone call to JFK’s wife Jackie. She even told the First Lady that the Commander-in-Chief had promised to marry her!
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“Monroe called the White House and told Jackie of the affair and of Jack’s alleged promises to her,” author Christopher Andersen wrote in his blockbuster book “These Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack with Jackie." Jackie, however, stayed very cool, added Andersen — who said Kennedy’s brother-in-law, actor Peter Lawford, told him the tale.
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In a breathy voice mimicking Monroe, Jackie retorted, “Marilyn, you’ll marry Jack. That’s great. And you’ll move into the White House and you’ll assume the responsibilities of First Lady, and I’ll move out, and you’ll have all the problems!”
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Sex goddess Marilyn Monroe was long on curves but short on sanity — with a new book charging that the starlet exhibited signs of “borderline personality disorder!” “Monroe suffered from severe mental distress,” declared science journalist Claudia Kalb, who studied Marilyn’s medical reports.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Kalb said Marilyn was seriously sick in the head, and noted that the actress once said she was “never used to being happy.” The thrice-married screen legend — who spent her childhood shuffling through 12 different foster homes — “yearned for love and stability,” he wrote in his book, “Andy Warhol Was a Horder.”
Photo credit: Getty Images
Legendary private investigator Anthony Summers revealed the true bombshell stories behind Norma Jeane Mortenson's early years in the book "Goddess"—which included her shocking past as a suicidally-depressed call girl!
Photo credit: Getty Images
During one poverty-stricken period in her life, Marilyn even resorted to picking up men in bars and selling herself for as little as $15 a night! She confided to her drama coach, Lee Strasberg, about her past as an escort. Strasberg recalled: "She told me she was the one summoned if anyone needed a beautiful girl for a convention."
Photo credit: Getty Images
Marilyn also told writer Ben Hecht that she'd attempted suicide twice before the age of 19 — once by leaving the gas on, and once by swallowing sleeping pills!
Photo credit: Corbis
“Her symptoms," said Kalb, "included a feeling of emptiness, a split or confused identity ... unstable relationships, and an impulsivity that drove her to drug addiction and suicide — all textbook characteristics of a condition called borderline personality disorder."
Photo credit: Corbis
Marilyn, who was found dead at the age of 36 in her Los Angeles home in 1962, was even needy enough to confess her love affair with President John F. Kennedy in a shocking phone call to JFK’s wife Jackie. She even told the First Lady that the Commander-in-Chief had promised to marry her!
Photo credit: Corbis
“Monroe called the White House and told Jackie of the affair and of Jack’s alleged promises to her,” author Christopher Andersen wrote in his blockbuster book “These Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack with Jackie." Jackie, however, stayed very cool, added Andersen — who said Kennedy’s brother-in-law, actor Peter Lawford, told him the tale.
Photo credit: Corbis
In a breathy voice mimicking Monroe, Jackie retorted, “Marilyn, you’ll marry Jack. That’s great. And you’ll move into the White House and you’ll assume the responsibilities of First Lady, and I’ll move out, and you’ll have all the problems!”
Photo credit: Corbis
