Marilyn Monroe Was Insecure, Jealous And Wanted A Baby; Her Intimate Conversation With Photographer Who Shot Her Nude

Known as Hollywood's sex symbol, Marilyn Monroe began her career as a model, which was followed by a film contract in 1946 with Twentieth Century-Fox and then there was no turning back.

Marilyn Monroe, who died at a very young age of 36, was known for her comic skills and was one of the most popular movie stars of the 1950s and early 1960s. Although her name is one that is counted among the legends of Hollywood, there were moments when she was not that legendary or beautiful. She was just a plain, vulnerable and insecure person who was scared of failure just like any other artiste.

In an adaptation of "Marilyn and Me", a memoir of Lawrence Schiller, the photographer who shot her nude, it emerged that the actress, who wore a smile on screen and could make people laugh, was someone who was deeply disappointed in life.

She was jealous of actress Elizabeth Taylor and her intention behind going for a nude photo shoot was to make sure Fox Studios gave her the attention she deserved.

"Fox [Studios] should start paying as much attention to me as they are paying to Elizabeth Taylor." Schiller, then just 23-years-old, had no idea that that photo shoot was going to be the biggest break of his life.

The June issue of Vanity Fair reveals the never-before-published pictures of the actress from that shoot and also details of conversations between the actress and Schiller.

Monroe's conversation with Schiller reveals that the photo shoot, where the actress seen to be coming out of swimming pool naked, was a plan to grab attention and for Fox to take her more seriously.

"Larry, if I do come out of the pool with nothing on, I want your guarantee that when your pictures appear on the covers of magazines Elizabeth Taylor is not anywhere in the same issue," she had told Schiller.

At that time, ! Marilyn was paid nine-tenths of what actress Elizabeth Tylor was making.

The photo shoot was a desperate way to avail as much publicity as Tylor had got by dating her co-star, Richard Burton.

Marylin thought that Play boy founder Hugh Hefner's offer of $25,000 for a nude photo of her was worth every penny. $25,000 was the maximum thatPlayboyhad ever paid for a photograph.

"There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on," a narcissist Monroe had said.

While she was proud of her beauty, she was also a disappointed person. While she knew her stunning body was the strength for her success, she also thought of it as her weakness and was disturbed that it was only about her body and that she had not won any Academy award.

"Let me ask you, Larry Wolf [Schiller first introduced himself to Monroe as the Big Bad Wolf]-how many Academy Award nominations do I have?" "I don't know," he said. "I do," she said. "None."