![]() ![]() ![]() “It wasn’t till later that I realized how much she had done for me,” Monroe wrote of her “Aunt Grace” in her posthumously published memoir, My Story. Moving in with family friend Grace McKee Goddard at age 11 changed her fate. Monroe spent her childhood in various orphanages and foster homes, where she allegedly faced sexual abuse and emotional distress. By age seven, Monroe was back in her birth mother’s care, although as shown in Blonde, her mother would be institutionalized for paranoid schizophrenia shortly thereafter. When her daughter was three years old, Gladys would allegedly make a thwarted attempt to break into Monroe’s foster home, placing her daughter in a duffel bag and briefly locking out the foster mother. ![]() She would make frequent visits to Monroe’s foster home, and even keep her for occasional sleepovers. As the mother of two children-Jackie and Berniece-who had already been taken from her by an ex-husband, Gladys was eager to keep her youngest in her life in some form, according to Biography. ![]() The real Monroe was only two weeks old when Gladys first dropped her off at a foster home in Hawthorne, California. ![]()
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