Marilyn Monroe Biography

Marilyn Monroe, was she perhaps one of the greatest movie stars of all time? We know Marilyn, but who was she underneath it all? Well to start, her name wasn’t always Marilyn, it was Norma Jeane. Her mother, Gladys Baker, was thought to have slight mental health issues that later progressed and made it clear that she was in fact “insane”. Norma Jeane had a childhood that would shape who she became later in life. Yes, she was a great star, but she was also a completely different person. The person her half sister, Bernice, knew was not the same person that the woman walking down the street knew. Norma Jeane morstenson, born on June 1st, 1926 to single mother Gladys, would become one of the most influential people of her time. Two weeks after giving birth, Gladys gave Norma Jeane up to Ida and Wayne Bolender, foster parents to many children at this time, after showing she was unfit for raising her daughter. It was made very clear she was unfit to raise the baby after she stabbed Grace McKee with a kitchen knife for no apparent reason, except that Gladys thought Grace had poisoned her baby. Grace of course did not poison the baby and even Gladys agreed she could be a danger to her baby and agreed to give her up to Ida and Wayne. Norma Jeane would have a relatively happy childhood even though she was a quiet child who did not have too many friends and did not get outstanding grades. She was exceptionally beautiful too. Even Ida knew that and she was a person who was mostly laid back. She never boasted but she knew Norma Jeane was special. There were rough parts of Norma Jeane’s early life and some of those included the times when Gladys would randomly show up and say she wanted her daughter back. These times probably scared the young girl a little bit but she knew she had a mother who wasn’t mentally fit to raise her from the start, so what did she expect? When Norma Jeane had to go back to her mother, she also met Grace McKee. Grace will be the one who