Toni Fontich ||*||

In 1952 Marilyn Monroe told a magazine she lived on raw eggs beaten into warm milk, broiled steak and liver, and the magazine printed it under the word bizarre. She warmed a cup of milk on a hot plate in her hotel room before her shower, broke two raw eggs into it, whipped them with a fork and drank it getting dressed. Her line was that no doctor could recommend a more nourishing breakfast for a working girl in a hurry. Dinner she described as startlingly simple. Every night she stopped at the market near the hotel for a steak, lamb chops or some liver, and broiled it in the electric oven in her room. With it, four or five raw carrots and nothing else. She said she must be part rabbit. The most photographed woman alive, at the exact moment the photographs were being taken, on eggs, milk, red meat and the fat that came with it. She said her normal diet was composed almost totally of protein foods and that this was why she could afford the occasional sundae. Pageant called it bizarre. Pageant, like every magazine since, kept printing diet pages anyway, and the diet pages have been getting people fatter for 74 years. She told them how in 1952. They filed it under eccentric and went back to the grapefruit.