The Mexican roots of the iconic model and actress Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe became one of the most representative actresses and models in the history of world entertainment. Her particular charisma managed to position her as the favorite artist of the so-called 'golden age of Hollywood'.
However, her success was permeated by stormy moments that she experienced during her childhood and that she tried to hide with her extravagant jewelry and glamorous dresses, not to mention her past.
At the height of her career, some data from her childhood came to light through a collection of information that the journalism of the time could find.
In those writings, there was talk of intriguing events that undoubtedly marked Monroe's life.
Among them, a sexual abuse that the same actress would confirm by being married to Joe Dimaggio, a Yankees baseball player, when she wrote her iconic autobiography titled 'My Story', with the help of screenwriter Ben Hecth.
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Likewise, it became known about the relationship that she had with her Mexican mother before she left her in an orphanage. As told in the book, the woman suffered from schizophrenia, so she could not afford to give proper care to little Marilyn, who could not understand her mother's illness.
The actress always had a great affinity for Mexico, not only because of her mother, but also because of the frequency with which she visited some states of that country to spend her vacations, or to party with great personalities from the American entertainment world. and Mexican.
But, without a doubt, the most inherent connection to the Aztec territory was in her blood, since her mother, Gladys Pearl Baker, had been born in Perlas Negras, a city in the border state of Coahuila, on May 27, 1902. .
Very little is known about Mrs. Baker and her past in her native country. However, it is known that she had three marriages and that it was with her second husband that she conceived Norma Jean Mortison, Monroe's given name.
There are many ambiguities about Baker's arrival in the United States, but it is known that when Marilyn's mother separated from Edward Mortison in Los Angeles, she knew she was pregnant and carried her care alone, according to media specialized in the entertainment of the time.
It was then that she was able to go to work at the film production company 'RKO' as an operator who cut negatives.
What has been said is that Braker could not support Monroe financially, so she decided to leave her in the care of an adoptive family named Ida and Wayne Bolinder, who owned a foster home.
Her situation worsened when she was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. A condition that prevented him from fulfilling the work of her mother.
Thus, Monroe forged a traumatic childhood that she could not solve with her arrival in the world of fame.
Some media claim that her mother spent some time trying to escape from various psychiatric care centers, in which Marilyn donated a certain amount of monthly money for her care.
After the death of the model, Gladys was released and went to live with her second daughter Berniece, who is a writer of the book "My sister Marilyn".
