Young life
Marilyn Monroe was born June 1st, 1926 in Los Angeles, California as Norma Jeane Mortenson . She had a difficult childhood with never having a father in her life. Also, her mother developed psychiatric problems that were later on moved into a mental institution. She remembered a time when her mother tried to suffocate her in her crib when she was very young.
During her childhood she was placed in foster care and was placed in an orphanage. A married couple took care of Marilyn for a few years and was paid 25 dollars a week by her mother but the husband got transferred in his job to the east coast and could not afford to bring Marilyn along. then she was put back in foster care and by the time she was 7 years old she was sexually assaulted many times and letter when she was 11 years old she was raped. She got married to Jimmy Dougherty on June 19, 1942 at the age of 16 because that was the only way she would get out.