In 1952 Marilyn Monroe told a magazine she lived on raw eggs beaten into warm milk, broiled steak and…
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Sama Hoole@SamaHoole𝕏In 1952 Marilyn Monroe told a magazine she lived on raw eggs beaten into warm milk, broiled steak and liver, and the magazine printed it under the word bizarre.
She warmed a cup of milk on a hot plate in her hotel room before her shower, broke two raw eggs into it, whipped them with a fork and drank it getting dressed. Her line was that no doctor could recommend a more nourishing breakfast for a working girl in a hurry.
Dinner she described as startlingly simple. Every night she stopped at the market near the hotel for a steak, lamb chops or some liver, and broiled it in the electric oven in her room. With it, four or five raw carrots and nothing else. She said she must be part rabbit.
The most photographed woman alive, at the exact moment the photographs were being taken, on eggs, milk, red meat and the fat that came with it. She said her normal diet was composed almost totally of protein foods and that this was why she could afford the occasional sundae.
Pageant called it bizarre. Pageant, like every magazine since, kept printing diet pages anyway, and the diet pages have been getting people fatter for 74 years.
She told them how in 1952. They filed it under eccentric and went back to the grapefruit.
She warmed a cup of milk on a hot plate in her hotel room before her shower, broke two raw eggs into it, whipped them with a fork and drank it getting dressed. Her line was that no doctor could recommend a more nourishing breakfast for a working girl in a hurry.
Dinner she described as startlingly simple. Every night she stopped at the market near the hotel for a steak, lamb chops or some liver, and broiled it in the electric oven in her room. With it, four or five raw carrots and nothing else. She said she must be part rabbit.
The most photographed woman alive, at the exact moment the photographs were being taken, on eggs, milk, red meat and the fat that came with it. She said her normal diet was composed almost totally of protein foods and that this was why she could afford the occasional sundae.
Pageant called it bizarre. Pageant, like every magazine since, kept printing diet pages anyway, and the diet pages have been getting people fatter for 74 years.
She told them how in 1952. They filed it under eccentric and went back to the grapefruit.
Most of the post checks out, with a few details to correct. Pageant ran Monroe's piece in September 1952 under the title "How I Stay in Shape." The breakfast is as described: a cup of milk warmed on a hot plate, two raw eggs whipped in with a fork, drunk while dressing, plus a multivitamin. Her dinners were steak, lamb chops or liver, broiled in the electric oven in her room, with four or five raw carrots. She said "I must be part rabbit," and that her normal diet was almost totally protein, which is why she could allow herself an occasional sundae. The article itself is a self-description, though. Vintage Everyday and Fine Dining Lovers both say she called her eating habits "bizarre" herself, not that Pageant's editors did. Some sites date the piece to 1953, but the September 1952 issue is the one most sources give. The "74 years" line is the poster's opinion, not a finding. As for the diet, the study-level evidence is thin: this is one woman's routine from 1952, not a trial. Raw eggs carry a salmonella risk, which is why most health agencies advise against them today, and the diet had no fiber or vegetables beyond carrots, as a 1950s reader would have noticed. Sources: Fine Dining Lovers, "What Did Marilyn Monroe Eat?" (finedininglovers.com), and Vintage Everyday, "Marilyn Monroe's Strange Diet Secrets" (vintag.es, 2024).
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