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Before she was Marilyn Monroe

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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.

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Hollywood film cutter Gladys Baker shares a happy moment with daughter Norma Jeane, 3, in 1929. Later, the mentally unstable Gladys left the girl in a series of foster homes.

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Seated behind the 12-year-old Norma Jeane in this 1938 photo is Ana Lower, a family friend she called "Aunt Ana," and one of many foster mothers she lived with as a girl.

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A 14-year-old Norma Jeane poses in 1940. She is two years away from her first marriage and six years away from breaking into movies and changing her name to Marilyn Monroe.

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A 15-year-old Norma Jeane (center) goes rowing with a couple of friends in 1941.

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To avoid becoming a ward of the state when her foster parents leave California, Norma Jeane, 16, marries neighbor Jimmy Dougherty, 21, in 1942. They'd divorce in 1946.

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Norma Jeane skis a sand dune in 1943. That year, husband Jimmy joins the Merchant Marines and goes overseas, while the future Marilyn works in a munitions factory.

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In 1946, she signs with 20th Century Fox and takes this publicity pic. She renames herself after stage star Marilyn Miller and her own mother's maiden name, Monroe.

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In 1947, the 20-year-old starlet spends long hours in dance and acting classes. It'll be another three years before her film career takes off with a role in "The Asphalt Jungle."

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