Double M was said to have been kicked out of bed by her second husband, New York Pin Stripes legend, Joe DiMaggio. According to the multiple-time World Series winner, his ex-wife, up close, had bad body odor.
She supposedly refused to bathe for days which just prolonged the agony (his). There’s also the fact that she liked to messily eat food in bed. I don’t happen to think that’s all that unusual. I may not be counted among them, but I know at least a few people that eat in their bedrooms. If you’ve chowing down on some barbecue ribs or barbecue chicken wings, you don’t think you’ll get even a little messy?
The beauty and style icon was rumored to rank so low in the hygiene department that some of her maids quit! Lena Pepitone, a former housekeeper of hers noted that Monroe would pop pills for severe depression, lie around in bed for days with the same clothes on, and let the dishes in the sink pile up like they were the Towel of Babel.
I am very slow to pass judgment on this woman because she went through more than what most people will ever have to in life. She was sexually abused as a child, she was in and out of foster homes, her mother and grandmother were in and out of mental health institutions, and she unfortunately found out rather quickly that fame and fortune don’t heal internal wounds.
Addictions to drugs and alcohol just made matters worse. All she wanted was a family, she never had any children, but was divorced three times, and to be taken seriously in a business that was never going to see this well-read and platinum blond person as anything else other than T&A.