Marilyn Monroe Was the World's First Peater
Milk, eggs, liver, carrots, ice cream, Coke, and more...
Let us never forget that Marilyn Monroe was the world’s first Peater…
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Marilyn Monroe drank lots of milk, ate eggs, liver, steak or lamb, raw carrots, and ice cream, essentially for the majority of her diet.
Here is some writing about Marilyns’s diet from Perfectly Marilyn Monroe that I made some adaptations to, you can find the full article here:
Throughout the majority of her life, she maintained a consistent diet, and indulged on occasion.
In 1948 she told her boyfriend, Fred Karger, “I have grapefruit and coffee for breakfast, and cottage cheese for lunch. Some days I get by with just a little over a dollar a day for food.” She was also said to have eaten raw hamburgers, peanut butter, hot dogs, chili, crackers.
In the 50s, a typical day started with some kind of juice — orange or grapefruit — eggs, followed by no lunch, or a light two tablespoons of cottage cheese lunch, and some kind of lean meat for dinners like steak, lamb, or liver. She drank milk, water to stay hydrated, and treated herself with drinks like Coca-Cola or champagne/sherry.
In 1952, she told Pageant magazine, “My biggest single concern used to be getting enough to eat,” when she was just starting out, and later she had to watch what she ate.
According to Pageant, for breakfast she drank a cup of milk and whipped up two raw eggs into it with a fork. She ate nothing for lunch, and for dinner she’d pick up a steak, lamb or liver, which she broiled with raw carrots. For a snack, she loved hot fudge sundaes, “I’m sure that I couldn’t allow myself this indulgence were it not that my normal diet is composed almost totally of protein foods,” she said.
On first date with Joe DiMaggio, she ate anchovies on pimento, spaghetti al dente, and scallopini of veal.
In 1953, she said that due to having to maintain her figure, it caused her to turn “anemic since all this happened — I have to drink raw liver juice and stir uncooked eggs into my milk. And I eat steak for breakfast every morning.”
While filming River of No Return in Canada, she loved to eat lobster.
During the time she was married to Joe DiMaggio, she tried her hand at his favorite Italian dishes and steak. During an interview, she admitted, “I’m learning, a little slow…” at cooking his steak. In Korea, she ate cheese sandwiches and cakes the troops brought for her.
In 1955, after she left Hollywood and began a new life in New York, she went off of her diet for a bit. She ate delicious foods like tomatoes, stewed corn, string beans, red cabbage with apple, winter squash, and her favorite late-night snack, scrambled eggs with anchovies and capers. When it was freezing she’d warm up with a bowl of chili.
While married to Arthur Miller, she continued to relinquish her diet. She loved cooking for him and his two children, making her own noodles and different Jewish delicacies. A typical breakfast was three poached eggs, toast, a Bloody Mary, for lunch was salami and cheese sandwiches. Her weight gain during those years, 1956-end 1960, coincided with her pregnancies that tragically ended in miscarriages.
In the late 50s, early 60s, she suffered from gastrointestinal problems which affected her diet. She suffered from stomach ailments and from violent vomiting episodes. In 1961, she had agallbladder surgery, and went on a restrictive diet after this. She ate lots of protein, vegetable, and actually very few carbohydrates. Her weight loss, due to the surgery, inspired her to maintain that lost weight.
During that time, a typical day started with, again, a juice, some toast or egg yolks, a light lunch, and fettucini leon or a steak for dinner. Her last breakfast, on August 4th, was grapefruit juice. That day she didn’t eat much.
In 1962, she told George Barris: “I love food as long as it has flavor. It’s flavorless food I can’t stand. I usually have a steak and a green salad for my dinner, also for breakfast when I’m really hungry. I keep away from pastries—I used to love them, and ice cream, too. I skip all desserts unless it’s fruit. I just don’t like the taste of pastries. as a kid I did, but now I hate it—and as for candy, I can take it or leave it, usually leave it. But I love champagne—just give me champagne and good food, and I’m in heaven and love. That’s what makes the world go round.”
Her favorite foods were steak and greens, spaghetti, eggs/egg whites, caviar, and her guilty pleasure good was hot dogs! For drinks, she loved Coca-Cola and 1953 Dom Perignon. She hated olives.
“I believe your body should make your clothes look good - instead of using clothes to make the body conform to what is considered fashionable at the moment, distorted or not.” – Marilyn Monroe to Movieland Magazine in 1952.
Again, this was adapted from this article, written by Perfectly Marilyn Monroe.
Now yes, I know, Marilyn Monroe died from an overdose, and also likely not eating enough food which could have been a key part in contributing to her health issues (along with a stressful life), but that doesn’t mean that this right here doesn’t still apply…