Marilyn Monroe, Eleanor Roosevelt, Coco Chanel, and other famous women faced significant hardships early in life but went on to great success. Marilyn Monroe lived in 11 foster homes after her mother was institutionalized. Eleanor Roosevelt's mother died when she was young and her father was an alcoholic. Coco Chanel came from a poor family with a mother who died of tuberculosis. Their early struggles did not prevent them from becoming world renowned figures.

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Like it or not, we all have better and worse days. There are days when we are
super proud of ourselves and everything around seems perfect! We are happy
with little achievements and successes, we enjoy small things such as sunny
weather or a morning coffee. And then, there are days when nothing makes any
sense, when we face challenges – one after another, when one failure comes after
another and when small issues become the biggest problems ever! For these
days that do not turn up great, I have decided to share with you some facts about
well-known female icons whose lives where not as colorful at times as one would
think.
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Marilyn Monroe has been in eleven foster care houses after her mother, Gladys,
was institutionalized. Yet, she became one of the world’s most wanted women.
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Eleanor Roosevelt, the longest-serving First Lady in the US, did not have an easy
life either! Her mum passed away when she was 8 while
her dad who was an alcoholic attempted a suicide. Even
though he survived the suicide, he died shortly after.
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And another orphan – Coco Channel. She came from a
poor background as her mother was a laundrywoman who
died of tuberculosis. Her father left the family shortly
after. Poverty did not stop her from becoming one of the
world’s most known designers.
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Audrey Hepburn was a volunteer nurse in a Dutch hospital
when the World War II happened. She was 16 at the time.
She then worked for the Dutch resistance and she used her
ballet slippers to carry secret messages risking her life!
How brave is that!
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Anne Frank, the famous Jewish diarist, died at as early age as 16 just a few weeks
before the concentration camp she was imprisoned at was liberated. Yet, within
such a short life, she managed to write beautiful and touching diaries which often
make the readers cry.
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Elizabeth Taylor had a lemonade stand in South Carolina before she started
playing in the movies. Yet, she became one of the Hollywood best paid actresses.
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Princess Diana worked as a kindergarten teacher at the Young England School.
Before that, she was a part-time cleaner and a babysitter.
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Fabulous Mae West used to write her own plays. For one of them, Sex, she was
jailed for 10 days and fined with $500 penalty due to the play’s content.
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Amelia Earhart, well-known aviation pioneer, served as a nurse during the
World War I and the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918. She was infected and
hospitalized herself during the latter one.
So head up if you’re having a bad day or week or month. The best is yet to come!