Marilyn Monroe’s figure has become more than a fashion, it has become a religion. The famous molded dress worn by the divas remained in history when he sang “Happy Birthday!” President John F. Kennedy. The skin color dress, handmade with 2,500 crystals, was sewn on the famous actress shortly before she entered the Madison Square Garden stage.
Marilyn Monroe’s silhouette
Not only the actresses wanted to look like this, but whoever saw it. Her diet was as simple, so strange, some would say. In an interview with the magazine “Pageant”, in 1952, the beautiful actress said how important, in her routine, sport and sleep, but also detail a daily menu: “I was told that my dietary habits are absolutely bizarre, but I don’t think so. Before I shower in the morning, I put on a cup of milk on the electric hob that I keep in the hotel room. When the milk is hot, I break two raw eggs, I beat them with a fork and drink them as I dress. Feeding for a girl who works and hurries (…) I stop at the market next to the hotel and take a roast, a little liver, which I cook in the electric oven. Because in the last few months I have made a habit of stopping at the Wil Wright ice cream confectionery for a hot fudge Sundae on my way home, after my evening acting courses. “
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The actress who swallowed a tapeworm
Other women were calling for grotesque methods. Thus, we find out that a cinema actress swallowed a tapeworm in despair not to get fat, which kept her away from the spotlight. The cinema stars, wrote a publication in 1933, we have to weigh every week and pay a masseur regularly to take care of them, not being allowed to have 500 grams differences. “And because of this, they are subject to a depressing regime that has a bad influence on their character, pushing the senseless towards neurasthenia and then towards suicide.”
An American reporter tells that one of the stars, not being able to stop the tendency to get fat, swallowed a tapeworm. After a long time, he died, the author wrote in a publication from 1933.
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However, besides the world of artists, Hollywood, as well as the world of those who sell weight loss recipes long before the blond diva. Taking advantage of the naivety and despair of many, a Romanian, Gregor, tricked his clients by selling them for heavy money for weight loss. Here’s what he said you had to eat to keep your figure: in the morning a cup of black coffee, biscuits and butter were consumed. After half an hour, drink the orange juice and after another half an hour, a teaspoon of honey. With this cure, our Hollywood Romanian guarantees that you can lose 800 grams.
