Marilyn Monroe’s Sister Just Turned 101 And She’s Beautiful

Marilyn Monroe was raised for a short time in an orphanage and she often told the press that she had no living family. Due to the star’s wishes for privacy, fans around the world had no idea that she had a sister for many years.

After Monroe’s death, Berniece Miracle broke her silence and told the world about the sister that she loved dearly.

Berniece Miracle didn’t know that she had a sister for many years. It wasn’t until Miracle was nineteen years old that she received a letter from her estranged birth mother who wrote about her sister named Norma Jeane, a girl seven years younger than Berniece.

This fact shocked her and started a relationship that would last for the rest of the starlet’s life.

Marilyn’s Birth Name Was Norma Jeane

Marilyn Monroe, the actress, model and singer who rose to fame in the 1950s, was born in June of 1926. She was born Norma Jeane Mortenson in Los Angeles, California to Gladys Baker, who at the time was 24.

And for the first many years of her life, Monroe didn’t know much about her extended family, or even if she had any other family at all.

Her Life Was Unsteady From the Start

Norma Jeane, as Monroe was called then, lived periodically with her mother until she was ten years old. Her early years were happily spent enjoying the simple pleasures of childhood, but by the time she reached ten years of age, trouble started to dismantle the happy life she knew as a child.

And by her teenage years, she needed to reach out to her extended family for help.

Norma Jeane Lived In Foster Homes For Years

Monroe was placed into a foster family shortly after her birth, and her living situation was always changing.

After living with her mother for a few years, it became clear that Gladys was not mentally stable enough to care for her daughter, so Monroe was sent away to live with a friend of her mother’s named Grace Goddard. It was during this time that Monroe first made contact with her long lost sister.

Her Sister Berniece Lived in Kentucky

Berniece Baker grew up in Kentucky, far away from the California sunshine. She enjoyed dancing to the swing music of the ‘30s and ‘40s and she often found herself in trouble with her teachers at school for disrupting lessons.

She spent her early years with her brother, Jackie and her father and step-mother, but she always had questions about her birth mother, who she only ever saw in a photo kept on her dresser.