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Before She Was Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe Learns to Pose at Age 2

Marilyn Monroe Learns to Pose at Age 2

Long before Monroe becomes one of the most frequently photographed women in history, a 2-year-old Norma Jeane Baker poses in a California portrait studio in 1928.

In this photo: Norma Jean Mortenson, Marilyn Monroe

Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Jan 01, 1928