#classyme #classyyou

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.

*** 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.

*** 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.

*** 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.

*** 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!

*** 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.

*** 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.

*** Princess Diana worked as a kindergarten teacher at the Young England School. Before that, she was a part-time cleaner and a babysitter.

*** 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.

*** 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!