Plus size or ideal: what size did Marilyn Monroe really wear?

Marilyn Monroe’s career was not very long, as the actress died at the age of only 36. After her, however, there were films, hundreds of photos of reporters and amateur shots. All these materials are still carefully studied in order to find the answer to the question that worries many – what size did the main diva of Hollywood wear?

In publications, you can often find that it was a size 14, which in the modern size grid roughly corresponds to a size of 52-54 or L/XL. Adding fuel to the fire was actress Elizabeth Hurley, who called Monroe “fat” after seeing her dress at the show.

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But in fact, the confusion arose due to the fact that the dimensional grids adopted in the 1950s are very different from modern ones. So, for example, a modern model “zero” size corresponds in the old standard to a size 10. This means that Monroe wore things of size 42-44. In addition, the parameters of Marilyn, recorded in the Blue Book modeling agency, with which the future star signed a contract at the age of 19, were preserved. If we convert it to centimeters, then Monroe had almost ideal hourglass parameters – 90-60-90 with a height of 166 cm and a weight of about 53 kg. By the way, in the agency, the administrator noted that the size of young Monroe was 12 at all.

Of course, with age, the weight of the actress fluctuated a little, but, for example, in the pathologist’s report, the same weight appears – 53 kg.

Today, many researchers of Monroe’s life agree that the actress rather corresponded to a modern size 8-10, that is, M.

Not skinny, but she’s far from plus size!

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