Having already had two children, Jackie and Berniece, taken from her by an ex-husband, Baker was determined to keep this one in her life. The devoutly religious Ida ran the household with a firm but compassionate grasp, and the girl grew close to her foster brothers and sisters.įurthermore, this was the period when Baker was most devoted to her well-being. Monroe’s mother frequently visited her daughter in the foster homeĭespite the inauspicious beginnings, Monroe’s early years were the most stable of her life. The sad dropoff and departure marked the first fracture in the troubled relationship between the girl who would become world-famous as Marilyn Monroe and her mother, one that rarely found solid ground in the 36-plus years they knew one another. There was no sign of any father-officially unknown, though Baker would insist for years that it was a Consolidated Studios co-worker named Charles Stanley Gifford-nor of the baby girl’s grandmother, Della Monroe, though she had at least arranged things with the Bolenders before running off to India. On June 13, 1926, 26-year-old Gladys Baker brought her 2-week-old daughter, Norma Jeane Mortenson, to the foster home of Ida and Wayne Bolender in Hawthorne, California.
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