happy birthday norma jeane!

For those of you who don't know who Norma Jeane is.. well shame on you! haha. She's better known as Marilyn Monroe. Her given name was Norma Jeane Mortenson and then it was changed to Norma Jeane Baker (after her mother's last name). She had a crazy life. I love her biography -- its called My Story by Marilyn Monroe. It takes excerpts from her actual journal. Its really cool. Today, is her birthday. She would be 84 years old! You can learn more about her from her website.


I've done a few posts that include something about Marilyn Monroe, here they are if you'd like to read them.

To a reporter: "Please don't make me a joke." - Marilyn Monroe

--One of my favorite quotes and its really just heart breaking that she has to plead for that.

"There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights." - Marilyn Monroe