Marilyn Monroe Teenage Survival Marriage

Years after her death, an archive of Marilyn Monroe’s poems, letters, notes, recipes, and diary entries surfaced, revealing intimate details of her life. In those writings, Monroe admitted that her first marriage at the age of 16 was arranged to keep her out of an orphanage while her caretaker was in a psychiatric hospital. That early marriage grew out of fear of being sent back into institutional care.

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