Marilyn Monroe before plastic facial correction
On November 10, 2013, at Julien's auction in Los Angeles, X-rays of Marilyn Monroe's face were sold, confirming that the actress changed her appearance through plastic surgery.
The photographs of the actress were made public by her personal surgeon, Michael Gurdin, who said that he would reveal to the world the truth about Marilyn’s beauty. However, for any adequate admirer of Marilyn Monroe’s work today, in the era of high-speed Internet, Gourdin’s product is of no interest. It is enough to compare photographs of the actress from the 1940s and 1950s to understand that she really had surgery.
19-year-old Marilyn Monroe works at the Radioplane Co plant in the workshop for assembling unmanned aerial vehicles (photo from 1945)
Marilyn Monroe (1945 photo)
The operations are also confirmed by documents declassified in the early 2000s. In 1950, Marilyn had an implant inserted into her chin to make it more pronounced. With a renewed chin, she appeared in the films “How to Marry a Millionaire,” “Some Like It Hot,” and “The Seven Year Itch.”
Marilyn Monroe on the beach (1946 photo)
By 1958, the material implanted in the chin began to dissolve under the skin, so the shape of Marilyn's face changed. Neither fans nor colleagues on the set saw anything surprising in this. There was a rumor that the actress had a serious cold and that antibiotics were negatively affecting her health. Then, in the late 1950s, even in Hollywood they had no idea that plastic surgery really existed and its services could be used.
Marilyn Monroe on the beach (photo from 1953)
Surgeon Norman Leaf states that in the same 1958 he changed the shape of Marilyn's nose. As proof, he provided medical documents in which the actress signed two names - Joan Norman (a pseudonym derived from her real name Norma Jeane Mortenson) and Marilyn Miller (from 1956 to 1961 she was married to Arthur Miller). Obviously, Marilyn carefully hid her plastic corrections, so she even tried to create confusion in the documents.
Information about Marilyn's lip augmentation surgery is unreliable. Such technologies did not exist then. This rumor could have arisen due to the skilful application of makeup on the actress's face. She mixed several shades of lipstick and smeared her lips with Vaseline, which visually enlarged them. Usually, before each public appearance, a team of makeup artists worked on Marilyn’s appearance; it took her up to two hours to do her own makeup.
X-rays of Marilyn Monroe
It is worth noting that the surgeon Michael Gurdin acted incorrectly when he began selling documents related to Marilyn Monroe. The papers also described the actress’s deeply personal problems, for example, a severe blood disease - neutropenia (low levels of neutrophil leukocytes) and the fact of an ectopic pregnancy in 1957.
Shortly before her death, in an interview, Marilyn said:
“I didn’t make a woman. Men, because of my image as a sex symbol, created by them and myself, expect too much from me - they expect bells to ring and whistles to blow. But my anatomy is no different from any other woman's. I don't live up to expectations."
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“The blond beast,” “the sex symbol of the 20th century,” is how the charming Marilyn Monroe was dubbed in the Western press.
No one doubted her natural beauty and charm. But not so long ago, plastic surgeons made a sensational statement: Marilyn Monroe had at least three operations to change her appearance.
The experts’ guesses were confirmed by the medical card, as well as X-rays of Marilyn Monroe. They were unveiled in November 2013 at Julien's auction. An unusual lot was presented by an unknown seller. He received x-rays from the film star’s personal doctor, Mr. Michael Gurdin.
X-rays confirmed the doctors' guesses. The actress has undergone three plastic surgeries. She corrected her jawline, changed the shape of her nose and enlarged her breasts.
In 1950, the star underwent two operations at once - mammoplasty and chin correction. She had her breasts enlarged by two sizes - from one to three, and an implant was implanted in her chin. Thanks to the foreign element, Marilyn's jawline became clearer and more expressive.
The operation was carried out before the start of filming the films “How to Marry a Millionaire”, “Some Like It Hot”, “The Seven Year Itch”, which turned Marilyn from an ordinary starlet into a world-famous star.
Eight years later, Monroe turned to doctors again. X-rays of the star show that the implant implanted in her chin has dissolved. However, experts did not take radical measures.
“Back then, such plastic surgery was considered something unheard of. They were practically not carried out,” notes Julien’s auction director Michael Nolan.
However, the pictures confirm that Gourdin did a huge amount of work - he implanted cartilage into Marilyn’s chin and performed rhinoplasty, correcting the shape and size of the nose.
The last time the star turned to Dr. Gurdin for help was shortly before his death. The actress fell on the set and hit her face. Gourdine took x-rays to make sure the skull bones were intact. The last photographs of Monroe date back to June 7, 1962. They were taken two months before the star's suicide.
The actress was examined at Dr. Gurdin's clinic under the names Joan Norman and Marilyn Miller.
X-rays that shed light on the life of the blond beast shocked her fans. They couldn’t believe that the beautiful Marilyn had decided to take such a radical step, and that her beauty was the result of Mr. Gourdine’s skillful work.
Published: 01/11/2016
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“The blond beast,” “the sex symbol of the 20th century,” is how the charming Marilyn Monroe was dubbed in the Western press.
No one doubted her natural beauty and charm. But not so long ago, plastic surgeons made a sensational statement: Marilyn Monroe had at least three operations to change her appearance.
The experts’ guesses were confirmed by the medical card, as well as X-rays of Marilyn Monroe. They were unveiled in November 2013 at Julien's auction. An unusual lot was presented by an unknown seller. He received x-rays from the film star’s personal doctor, Mr. Michael Gurdin.
X-rays confirmed the doctors' guesses. The actress has undergone three plastic surgeries. She corrected her jawline, changed the shape of her nose and enlarged her breasts.
In 1950, the star underwent two operations at once - mammoplasty and chin correction. She had her breasts enlarged by two sizes - from one to three, and an implant was implanted in her chin. Thanks to the foreign element, Marilyn's jawline became clearer and more expressive.
The operation was carried out before the start of filming the films “How to Marry a Millionaire”, “Some Like It Hot”, “The Seven Year Itch”, which turned Marilyn from an ordinary starlet into a world-famous star.
Eight years later, Monroe turned to doctors again. X-rays of the star show that the implant implanted in her chin has dissolved. However, experts did not take radical measures.
“Back then, such plastic surgery was considered something unheard of. They were practically not carried out,” notes Julien’s auction director Michael Nolan.
However, the pictures confirm that Gourdin did a huge amount of work - he implanted cartilage into Marilyn’s chin and performed rhinoplasty, correcting the shape and size of the nose.
The last time the star turned to Dr. Gurdin for help was shortly before his death. The actress fell on the set and hit her face. Gourdine took x-rays to make sure the skull bones were intact. The last photographs of Monroe date back to June 7, 1962. They were taken two months before the star's suicide.
The actress was examined at Dr. Gurdin's clinic under the names Joan Norman and Marilyn Miller.
X-rays that shed light on the life of the blond beast shocked her fans.
They couldn’t believe that the beautiful Marilyn had decided to take such a radical step, and that her beauty was the result of Mr. Gourdine’s skillful work. Published: 01/11/2016
Marilyn Monroe
The short but colorful life of the Queen of Hollywood has become a legend. They make films about her, write books, people want to be like her. Did the charming blonde, whose image has become iconic, lie down under a scalpel? Plastic surgeon and member of the specialized commission of the Ministry of Health of Russia in the specialty "Plastic Surgery" Anton Zakharov believes that yes: in his opinion, the actress, in particular, enlarged her chin, changed the shape of her nose, and also made her look more expressive due to eyebrow lifting (tightening) and blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery).
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"They are real?"
Marilyn never admitted to reporters that she was lying under a scalpel. But plastic surgeon Dr. Norman Leaf, in his book Are Those Real? (“Are they real?”) indicates that he reliably knows about Marilyn Monroe’s plastic surgery. In particular, about breast augmentation
. Norman Leaf himself did not perform Miss Monroe's operation. But he saw the entries in the documents that his acquaintance, Dr. Michael Gurdin, showed him. After World War II, Dr. Gourdin was considered one of the leading plastic surgeons in Los Angeles.
The first entry in the documents was made on July 14, 1958. In it, Dr. Gurdin describes in detail the operation of inserting an implant into the chin
. After 8 years, the sea sponge implant was absorbed, leaving only a small scar under the chin, which was a reminder of the operation.
Dr. Leaf has not seen any previous records of plastic surgery, particularly nose surgery. But the author of the book claims that Dr. Gurdin spoke several times about how he and his partner John Pengman performed rhinoplasty on the tip of Marilyn's nose.
