Today, from CNN.COM, through Life Magazine, 5 previously unpublished pictures of Marilyn Monroe emerged. they were apparently taken in 1950, when she was primarily known as a model only, and were never used in any story or on a cover.

Obviously MM was quite beautiful, but I was so struck by this picture of her.... to me it portrays her so differently than the thousands of other images that have been shown of her. I don't know why ~ I have never really been a huge MM fan per say, but this new picture is different. Maybe part of it is knowing that this was before her life was so changed by stardom, excess and exploitation.