Today I Found Out
What Size was Marilyn Monroe Really? (2015x23)
Air date: Jun 08, 2015
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→Why Do Superheroes Wear “’m more sexy than Pamela Lee or whoever else they’ve got out there these days. Marilyn Monroe was a size 16. That says it all”, to Elizabeth Hurley stating, “I’ve always thought Marilyn Monroe looked fabulous, but I’d kill myself if I was that fat…”, you’ll often hear people saying Marilyn Monroe was around the same size as the average American woman today (12-16). In fact, nothing could be further from the truth, at least by today’s sizing systems.
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Resources/Further Reading:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0806531231/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=vicastingcom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0806531231
http://www.biography.com/people/marilyn-monroe-9412123
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/82952.Marilyn_Monroe
http://blogs.webmd.com/pamela-peeke-md/2010/01/just-what-is-an-average-womans-size-anymore.html
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000054/bio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/marilyn_monroe.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playboy
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-24/hollywood-auction-ends-myth-of-zaftig-marilyn-virginia-postrel.html
http://jezebel.com/5299793/for-the-last-time-what-size-was-marilyn-monroe
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1385806
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/1980507.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_standard_clothing_size
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MarilynMonroe-YANK1945.jpg
Image Credits (Thank you)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roseanne_barr.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Marilyn_Monroe,_The_Prince_and_the_Showgirl,_2.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Flickr_-_Government_Press_Office_(GPO)_-_1950's_Be
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