Fascinating Information About Legendary Marilyn Monroe's Life

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Fact – 4

At sixteen Norma left her studies to wed James Edward Dougherty.
Just sixteen years old, Norma Jeane's life changed once more when she married James Edward Dougherty, a choice that would shape her destiny. The marriage was mostly planned to keep her from going back to an orphanage after her foster family intended to go out of state, not just a love match. For the young child who had never had a permanent home, James, a 21-year-old merchant marine, stood for stability and protection. Though it also signalled the start of her metamorphosis, the partnership gave her first experience of household life and adult obligations. She started her modelling career during their marriage and attracted photographers who noticed something unique in the young wife of a serviceman. Norma Jeane worked in a munitions plant when Dougherty was stationed abroad during World War II; she was discovered by a Yank magazine photographer. Though it would mean the end of her marriage to Dougherty, this fortuitous meeting would finally result in Marilyn Monroe's modelling career and the birth of With their divorce in 1946, Norma Jeane, the adolescent bride, came to an end and Marilyn Monroe, the future celebrity, started.

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