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Marilyn Monroe's harrowing mortician report – from false boobs to hairy legs

On August 6, 1962, Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her home at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive, estimated to have died six to eight hours prior on August 5.

The iconic Hollywood star had a phone receiver in her hand and was lying face down without any clothes on.

By her side was an empty pill bottle.

The ‘Some Like It Hot’ actress is said to have taken her own life after rumours circulated that she was involved in an affair with the president of the United States, John F. Kennedy.

Marilyn is said to have taken her life at the tender age of 36 (Image: ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Following her shock death, the funeral director who helped prepare Marilyn’s body for burial shared immensely gruesome details about the state of the star’s body after she was found dead.

Allan Abbott and Ron Hast ran one of the most popular funeral services in the 1960s for celebrities from Monroe to Natalie Wood, called Abbott & Hast.

In his tell-all book about his graphic work for the stars, the funeral director claims that Marilyn was almost unrecognisable when he saw her body shortly after she had died.

The mortician was stunned by the ‘state’ of the starlet’s body, and deemed her unrecognisable at the time of her death.

She appeared as the picture of health as she frolicked on the beach but these was to be the last photo shoot of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe before her tragic death (Image: Bloomsbury/Barris/Splash)

Delving into the more gruesome details, it was reported that her usually beautiful face was marred by purple blotches.

The roots of Marilyn’s hair were also quite lengthy, and according to Annott, she was in serious need of a manicure and a pedicure.

He continued: “When we removed the sheet covering her, it was almost impossible to believe this was the body of Marilyn Monroe.”

Allan insisted that the 36-year-old superstar looked like an ageing woman who failed to look after her appearance.

“She looked like a very average, ageing woman who had not been taking very good care of herself. Obviously, the circumstances surrounding her death had greatly exacerbated her poor appearance and she was unrecognisable.”

Marilyn’s body is said to have been in an ‘awful’ state once found (Image: Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

“When someone dies, gravity causes the blood to settle to the lowest point of the body. This condition is called lividity, and considering that many people die lying on their backs, the discolouration that occurs is seldom visible.”

According to his report on Marilyn’s deceased body, the show-stopper dies face down, which led to the purple blotches all over her face.

Abbott insisted that her neck was immensely swollen, and after she was bathed at the coroner’s office, and her hair turned frizzy and ‘fairly short’ – a startling image that was hugely juxtaposed to the one many held in her minds regarding the show-stopping stunner.

The Hollywood star was found with an empty bottle of sleeping pills next to her body (Image: Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

“You could tell she had not bleached it for some time, because the roots were darker and had grown out about half an inch.”

“Her natural hair color was a light brown, not blonde. Her legs hadn’t been shaved for at least a week, and her lips were badly chapped. She was also in need of a manicure and pedicure,” Allan divulged.

The funeral directors also made the decision to perform surgery on Marilyn’s neck to reduce swelling.

In his debut book, Allan shares that after the surgery, he received clothes to dress her in, and noted that she was buried without wearing any underwear as she ‘never wore panties’.

Reports claim that false breasts were found in her belongings (Image: Getty Images)

They also claim to have found false breasts in Marilyn’s belongings, but chose not to use them in the end as she was due to be laid to rest.

Instead, according Allan’s account, the wife of the cemetery’s manager stuffed her bra with cotton wool to make her look ‘more like herself’.

Marilyn’s make-up artists Sydney Guilaroff and Allan ‘Whitey’ Snyder later explained she had begun to use the enhancements as her breasts began to sag in her thirties.

Marilyn’s makeup artists told how she was becoming insecure due to the fact she was ageing (Image: Bloomsbury/Barris/Splash)

Although she appeared to be the most confident woman on earth, details of her dyer insecurities and harrowing loneliness emerged some years after her death, by friends and those closest to her.

In some ways, before her death, it seemed as though Marilyn was trying to pull her life together.

She had just bought her first home in California’s Brentwood neighborhood and was the covergirl for the world renowned Life magazine.

As well as that, the 36-year-old had just been rehired on the film Something’s Got to Give.

The 36-year-old had just been rehired on the film Something’s Got to Give. (Image: Bloomsbury/Barris/Splash)

But in other ways, it seemed like the bleakest of times for model-turned-Hollywood star.

She had divorced her third husband, playwright Arthur Miller, the year prior and there were rumors about an alleged affair between her and President JFK.

The shocking tragic ending to Monroe’s rise to glory from a tough childhood to movie star royalty was a real-life Cinderella story.

While her death at the age of 36 was ruled as a probable suicide, theories still abound about what may have actually led to her passing in her final days.

Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk


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