Five facts about Marilyn Monroe's difficult life.

 1-      Her mother was schizophrenic.

GladysPearl Monroe, Marilyn's mother, was born in 1902 in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, where her father, Otis Elmer Monroe, originally from Minneapolis, United States, worked for a railroad company. Gladys first married Jasper Newton Baker and later Martin Edward Mortensen, and Norma Jean was born in 1926, although the identity of her father remained unknown.

Gladys Monroe suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, and in 1934 she was admitted to the Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk, leaving her daughter under the state's custody.

2-      She got married at 16 to avoid returning to the orphanage.

 In Van Hut News, she returned to high school, but in 1942 she faced a dilemma when Doug Goddard was transferred to West Virginia by the company he worked for. California Child Protection Laws prevented Grace Goddard, Norma Jean's guardian, from taking the teenager to another state, and the only option seemed to be a return to the orphanage. To avoid going back to an orphanage she didn't want to return to, Norma Jean married 21-year-old James Dowherty on June 19, 1942, at the age of 16.

3-      She left her first husband to pursue a modeling career.

In 1944, Maryland was still married to James Dowherty, a marriage she described as dull, while working in a munitions factory for the United States Air Force. That year, Air Force sent photographer David Conover to capture images of women working, and he was struck by Maryland's appearance, persuading her to start a career as a model. Dowherty, who was fighting in the war, disagreed, and Maryland decided to begin modeling without his approval, ultimately divorcing him in 1946.

4-      She was brutally rejected by the man she thought was her father.

As Maryland's fame grew, so did her curiosity about her biological father. She decided to contact Charles Stanley Gifford, thinking he might be her father and willing to provide confirmation. She managed to speak to Gifford on the phone, but he traumatized her with his response when she suggested a meeting. He told her, Look, I'm tired, and I have a family. I have nothing to say to you. 60 years after Maryland's death, DNA tests confirmed that Gifford was indeed her father.

5-      She died due to her addictions.

In the mid-1950s, Marilyn Monroe was already deeply ensnared by barbiturates, amphetamines, and alcohol. These addictions took a toll on her career, and after a series of filmings where she tormented her colleagues with erratic behavior, she was fired by 20th Century Fox during the production of Something's Got to Give, her last unfinished film. On the night of August 4, 1962, she locked herself in her room and ingested a large amount of barbiturates, being found dead the following morning.