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I don't really get why Marilyn Monroe is so incredibly iconic tbh. In my opinion, she was only average.
She seemed intelligent and earnest but very lonely. It can't have been easy being a woman like her in a time like that. It's isolating.
I agree. She was sex symbol and broke many norms in the postwar period, but wasn’t really that beautiful. Sad life tho.
That's an interesting compare and contrast.
I have no interest in Kim Kardashian, but in a recent moment of utter boredom, I allowed myself to be sucked into one of those stupid click-bait slide-show websites which had pictures of her through the years. That only confirmed my belief that what you see when you look at KK is a totally fake product of discreet surgical enhancement and a team who put a lot of effort into her her makeup, hair and clothing. I'm sure she's damn careful about protecting her brand, so I imagine it's virtually impossible to find any pictures which show what she _really_ looks like these days. (Hell, she probably has a team of assistants whose only responsibility is making sure that pictures of her without makeup are never taken.)
Monroe's image was also fake to some extent, and she - and her studios - put effort into making her look as good as possible and to present an image that was alluring by the standards of her time. But that image was always that of a sexy, ditzy, naïve woman, and I'm sure most people of the day would have said that there were other women in the movies at the time who were more beautiful. Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren - who were both roughly the same age as Monroe - come immediately to mind. The difference being that Monroe was willing to be more overtly sexual (although that wasn't much by today's standards), and she projected something of the American girl-next-door trope.