While Marilyn Monroe loved several men, many biographers and fans point to Joe DiMaggio, her second husband, as her truest love, despite their short marriage, because of his enduring devotion and protection, with him famously sending roses to her grave weekly for decades, even after their divorce. Her marriage to playwright Arthur Miller was significant for intellectual connection, and she also married James Dougherty, but DiMaggio's consistent love and care after her death cemented his place in her romantic legend.
Arthur Miller
Monroe would later say it was love at first sight when she met the author and playwright in 1950 on the set of As Young As You Feel (1951). The duo did not reconnect until 1955 after she had divorced DiMaggio and moved from Hollywood, Calif., to New York City.
Remembering Queen Elizabeth II and Marilyn Monroe, who would have turned 100 in 2026.
Marilyn Monroe likely suffered from complex mental health issues, with modern analysis pointing towards Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), alongside historical diagnoses of Bipolar Disorder (Manic-Depressive Illness), anxiety, depression, and addiction, stemming from severe childhood trauma and abandonment. Her struggles included emotional instability, identity issues, impulsivity, intense mood swings, emptiness, and substance abuse, all consistent with BPD and ASD traits, though she was treated with medications for mood disorders during her life.
OCR: 4 Image Credit:X Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller on their wedding day day in 1956 1956-she -she was 30, he was 40, only a 10-year 10 age gap.
Marilyn Monroe was more than a glamorous icon—she was deeply intelligent and loved literature and philosophy. She reportedly had an IQ of 168, even higher than einstein's estimated 160.
He wasn't even invited. People don't usually send invites to funerals. Miller was the longest of her three marriages--he did his best, she was a complicated lady. He probably felt guilty as Marilyn gave her all to him & 2 miscarriages later too.
A woman who enjoyed her sleep, Monroe took between five and 10 hours of shut-eye a night in a wide single bed. On Sunday? “[It's] my one day of total leisure. I sometimes take two hours to wake up, luxuriating in every last moment of drowsiness,” she said in an interview with Pageant magazine.
The late stage of Marilyn's disease, aggravated by alcohol and barbiturate abuse, was characterized by an alternation of extreme excitement, irritability, insomnia, rumination, dysphoria and and self-injury, and severe psychomotor retardation, suggesting a BD, with unspecified catatonia.
The blonde bombshell, who has been revered for her curves for decades, apparently had plastic surgery in her pre-fame days to correct a nose imperfection as well as underwent chin augmentation.
Jasmine Chiswell, 27, has been living in the four-bedroom, four-bathroom home since the start of 2019, when she and her husband purchased it for $2.73 million. Built in 1938 in a Mediterranean style, the house has a long Hollywood history and was briefly rented by Monroe and baseball great Joe DiMaggio in 1952.
Peter Mangone, a teenager from the Bronx, had been skipping school to wait outside the Gladstone Hotel, where Marilyn was staying following her divorce from Joe DiMaggio, hoping simply to catch a glimpse of her.
If Marilyn Monroe were alive today (in late 2025), she'd be around 99 years old, and while her bombshell image might have faded, many believe she'd still be an icon, perhaps evolving into a producer, activist (like Brigitte Bardot), or finding fulfillment in family, but likely facing challenges with her documented ...
Murray telephoned Greenson, on whose advice she looked in through a window, and saw Monroe lying facedown on her bed, nude and covered by a sheet and clutching a telephone receiver. Greenson arrived shortly thereafter. He entered the room by breaking a window and found Monroe dead.
It's no secret that Marilyn Monroe had many loves throughout her life, most notably with her second and third husbands Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller. But between (and sometimes even during) her marriages, there were many scandalous affairs.
Some days later, Marilyn happened to come across Miller's notebook lying open on a table, looked at it and discovered that he was disappointed in her, feared that his own creativity would be threatened by this pitiable, dependent, unpredictable waif he had married and was seriously regretting the union.
Aside from a brief period late in her career, Marilyn's weight was always between 117 - 120 lbs and her waist measurements pretty much never changed.
Marilyn Monroe was not only a hot commodity among her LGBTQ+ fans of the day, she was also far ahead of the curve in terms of supporting dignity and respect for queer people. She had gay men and lesbians in her retinue and among her closest circle of friends. One, for example, was Montgomery Clift.
Dr. Hyman Engelberg, one of her doctors, later told an interviewer, “We knew that she was manic-depressive, which is now called bipolar personality.” Notes biographer Lois Banner, Marilyn suffered from a severe stutter and dyslexia, too, and was addicted to barbiturates and amphetamines.
Turns out Monroe might have made dying her pubic hair part of her regular beauty routine, too.
Marilyn Monroe's Clothing Tells the Truth
Below are several examples of Marilyn's clothing worn at varying times in her life, displayed on a size 6-8 dress form, with measurements of 33.5″ (bust), 24.5″ (waist), and 34.5″ (hip).
Marilyn was quite wonderful, the best of all. What do you know?” Vivien Leigh had all the critical acclaim that Marilyn, in her insecurity, lacked.
"Frank believed she was murdered," he writes, "and he never got over it." According to Oppedisano, Sinatra and Monroe were close friends but not lovers. While Sinatra thought she was beautiful and funny, he writes, "Frank felt she was too troubled, too fragile, for him to sleep with and then walk away."
Joe DiMaggio was so devastated after Marilyn Monroe's death that he had a half-dozen red roses delivered 3 times a week to her crypt for 20 years, never married again and his last words were: "I'll finally get to see Marilyn." Joe wanted a housewife and she didn't want to be one. I feel bad for both of them.