Such a suggestion is crazy! Yes she has a belly; a belly means surplus weight not fat. She is larger in LML than her earlier films with the exception of The Prince and the Show Girl. Some of her dresses in this film pull tightly across her belly thus emphasising it but overall she is trim with shapely upper arms.
I would suggest that posters who write she's fat gain some cognisance of reality.
Away with the manners of withered virginsshare
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Marilyn was perfect in her weight distribution, she had those slightly heavy thighs and the perfect soft butt. I always felt she had a great figure.
shareIt's another obvious change in society views of the "proper" size of a woman. A size 16 in America is plus sized. I feel that most people, and I'm in the more lenient south, considers anyone over a size 8 to be fat. I wish so badly we would return to finding a woman's body beautiful without being forced to diet and exercise to extremes. Each woman's body has a stable, healthy weight and that should be what we follow. Not these crazy expectations the media and Hollywood give us. I like a statement I read after having a baby: who do kids want to snuggle with a Barbie or a teddy bea? Case closed.
Why in Cider House Rules do they say Marilyn wore a size 4?!?
I looked up Marilyn Monroe's size and her measurements were 36-23-34. That waist measurement is a size zero in today's sizes! So either her measurements at her dressmaker's are wrong or we don't see her in the proper way because she has a voluptuous chest.
shareMarilyn's weight and measurements have been and continue to be a subject of debate. Her dressmaker's numbers weren't wrong, sizing was different during the 40s-60s. At her heaviest, I believe she was around 135-140. She was at her thinnest when she died and she was around 117. Considering her build and height, she was never fat even at her heaviest. Also bear in mind that the chunky cable knit sweater she wore in the film was just that - chunky. If you're five pounds overweight, you''ll look like a chubbo in one of those sweaters. They're good for kids but women with large breasts or thick middles should avoid them. I speak from experience and from years of reading fashion magazines.
By movie star standards, yes, Marilyn was considered fat at times. By movie star standards, a woman is also comparable to Methuselah if she's over 25. Their standards are impossibly high for a reason - stars and models are suppose to be our physical ideals. If everyone was ideal, what would we theoretically strive for? Would you want to watch a romantic film where people just looked "normal"? Would you want to see an ad for Louis Vuitton with a woman that weighs 300 pounds and has a mustache? Probably not because you can see people like that every day. That's not fantasy and you won't plop down $600 for a purse if a woman like that represented the brand.
Anyhow, more on MM's "fatness". Snopes is pretty damn reliable so go forth and eat a cupcake in honor of Marilyn.
http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/mmdress.asp
LOVE it!! ahha You read like Lauren Bacall. haha. Love it.
Yes, I agree with everything you say.
However, she was too big in this film. and for some reason they wanted MARILYN but, they didnt want MONROE.
they seemed to dull her down...mess her up.
Still a Beauty, however...15lbs lighter wouldve been better.
From the measurements above, she's US size 6. The Snopes article says size 8.
http://us.asos.com/Womens-Dresses-size-guide-ASOS/1d6l1g/?szgid=1&r=2
agree, i prefer some meat om my women
so many movies, so little time
Women were made to have sexy curves, not have the figure of 12 year-old boys.
shareFat? Who said that -Ray Charles?
shareSeveral people apparently. Rosanne Barr and Elizabeth Hurley are two examples (https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/04/marilyn-monroe-was-not-even-close-to-a-size-12-16/#:~:text=8%20inches%2C%20to%20Monroe's%205,inches%20taller%20than%20Monroe%20was.).
It's a myth. She was winsome, curvy and alluring, but certainly not fat.