Marilyn Monroe Was Dirty

[Adam_Hammil 0]

One of the world's most glamorous women, Marilyn Monroe, was flatulent, dirty and ate in bed, it has been revealed in a new book.
Portraits of her as the image of womanly perfection may hang on walls of admirers' homes all over the world. But when it came to personal hygiene, the Hollywood star's habits were a huge turn-off to her co-stars.

Gable and Monroe appeared together in the 1961 movie 'The Misfits' which was written by the husband of Monroe, playwright Arthur Miller.

It had always been Hollywood legend that the two co-stars had a torrid love affair together.

This claim is rubbished in the book 'Clark Gable: Tormented Star' by author David Bret, to be published in the US in September 2007.

Bret dismissed rumors of the affair as rubbish. While Gable was a lover of cleanliness, "she could not have been less fastidious regarding her personal hygiene."

Bret says Monroe's interest in Gable was not returned, but was spurned by Gable, who was discouraged by her living habits.

"Like Jean Harlow, she bleached all her pubic hair and never wore panties. She suffered from what today would be described as irritable bowel syndrome," Bret writes.

Bret also claims: "She rarely bathed, slept in the nude and ate a lot in bed - shoving what was left on her plate under the sheets before going to sleep."

The Misfits was both Monroe's and Gable's last movie that either Monroe or Gable worked on before they died. Gable died from a heart attack two weeks after shooting finished. Monroe's suicide followed a year later. The movie's third lead, Montgomery Clift, died from drug and alcohol abuse four years later.

Miller and Monroe's marriage broke down during filming, and Monroe was turning more and more to prescription drugs and alcohol.

Filming had to be stopped in August 1960 so she could be sent to hospital for detox. It was this instability, and the steamy scenes on set that led people to believe an affair might have taken place.

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[Dagoth Nereviar 0]

Hahahaha, thats brilliant " she shoved what was left from her plate under her bed sheets"HA! Thats it girl!! Oh wow. What a brilliant example of optimum human behaviour!Also. Too bad she killed herself I guess. She could have been a role model to todays youngsters.

[Saint_Michael 3]

You think you know someone , well I don't think any guy would care if she eats in bed, most people do nowadays though, although, since it was the 60's I doubt many people did actually eat in bed unless it was breakfast in bed or they were sick. Heck did the book talk about the possible affair with JFK and Bobby, because that was a juicy rumor back in them days and for conspiracy nuts believe that suicide wasn't the cause.Well some people still take after her in some form or another, "blond bombshell" is a term I would bring on the table since she was one and a lot of women today dye their hair blond just because it has sex appeal or something like that.

[arnz 0]

Eh, have to agree that most guys wouldnt mind if she did ate in bed. But if the food stayed there for like, say a few days and it rotted. It would be of some concern due to Hygiene reasons. Of couse she could've had a illness or other reasons that may have forced her to eat in bed, or she did have it earlier but was a bit lazy to get out of the habit. Would've been interesting if she was still around today.