Norma-Jean Baker's transformation into Marilyn Monroe

**MysTerious** · January 8th, 2009, 09:42 PM

This is one of the most amazing and subtle transformations ever - and all done in the 1940's!

Doctors just don't seem to have the same quality anymore - or is it that celebrities don't have the restraint?

A simple improvement - allegedly rhinoplasty & an early form of a chin implant - transformed her from a beauty into sexy starlet!

**Glitter** · January 8th, 2009, 09:43 PM

She was beautiful both ways.

**IceQueen** · January 8th, 2009, 10:16 PM

I am not seeing a chin implant. I think she was beautiful to start with, and add in blond hair, and hair product, she looks very glamorous.

**Sleuth** · January 8th, 2009, 10:39 PM

hmm im not seeing a chin implant and im not really seeing a nose job either. I think her transformation was all about the styling.

**DeadDwarf** · January 8th, 2009, 11:12 PM

Before:

After:

More: Before and After

**olivia720** · January 9th, 2009, 02:57 AM

Oh, yeah, she's had a nose job. that's pretty much common knowledge. maybe a few other things done too.

**HWBL** · January 9th, 2009, 03:53 AM

I saw a documentary once on early Hollywood PS and it was either
an old plastic surgeon or an old nurse to a plastic surgeon who had
done or been present at the whole process of making Norma Jean
Marilyn. It involved talks with a studiohead, a photographer and a,
what I assume would now be called, stylist and the medical team.
There was a chin implant, because the studio people called her a
"chinless wonder". Looking at her old photos I don't see anything
really bad, but maybe the photographer had some input there and
may have exaggerated some things from the point of making more
perfect photographs.

**A*O** · January 9th, 2009, 03:56 AM

I don't see a chin implant - I see weightloss to get rid of the slight double chin. Basically she lost the puppyfat. The new nose is a given. Whatever she had done it was an improvement, unlike a lot of the PS today.

**Honey** · January 9th, 2009, 07:34 AM

Blonde hair totally changed her, gorgeous

**missjuicy** · January 9th, 2009, 07:45 AM

shes amazing, i love her any way she looks

**Sweetie** · January 9th, 2009, 07:51 AM

She also had her teeth worked on in 1948.

Then in 1950, Johnny Hyde (a boyfriend at the time and a top Hollywood agent) arranged for her to have her chin and nose perfected.

**sputnik** · January 9th, 2009, 08:24 AM

definitely a chin implant. it's small and subtle but definitely there.
she had an amazing surgeon because plastic surgery back then was practically unheard of, and was usually bad. i mean, nose jobs were pretty much crappy or really obvious until the 90s.