The original beach babe, MM, ranks 3rd on Men’s Health magazine’s list of ‘The Hottest Women of All Time’, just below Raquel Welch and winner Jennifer Aniston, and above Britney Spears and Madonna.
‘She’s the quintessential blonde—the star who single-handedly seduced a sitting President, charmed a baseball legend, and inspired countless generations of women to stock up on peroxide. Marilyn Monroe—or, if you prefer, Norma Jeane Mortenson—was never apologetic about her sexuality. She once posed nude for a calendar—reportedly to help pay the rent—and helped launch the inaugural issue of Playboy, gracing the cover and the centerfold and spawning legions of imitators from Anna Nicole Smith to Lindsay Lohan, who dyed her signature red locks bleach-blonde for a nude photo shoot in New York. Monroe, no doubt, would have been flattered—though the key to her allure was always in its seeming effortlessness. “Sex is nature,” she once said. “I go along with nature.”’
