The world keeps asking “What size was Marilyn Monroe?”

According to measurements from Marilyn Monroe’s dressmaker:
Height: 5 feet, 5½ inches
Weight: 118-140 pounds
Bust: 35-37 inches
Waist: 22-23 inches
Hips: 35-36 inches
Bra size: 36D

Marilyn’s figure was an unusually dramatic hour-glass.  A collector displayed a bunch of her most famous costumes in London recently, “they had to get a special mold made for the corset and swimwear dummies in the exhibition because Monroe was such an extreme hourglass shape that no off-the-peg dummies existed in those measurements.”

Depending on the designer, a British 10 might translate as an 8, a 6, or even a 4. And vintage clothes of that era were cut slim, intended to be worn with serious girdles, so take this into account. The answer? There’s no “exact” number. All we can know for sure is that Marilyn Monroe was a gorgeous, dramatically curvaceous woman with a physique heavier and curvier than that which is en vogue now.

Was Marilyn Monroe Really A Size 16? [Huffington Post]
Was Marilyn Monroe A Size 16? [London Times]
Downsizing Figures [Chicago Sun-Times]
With Respect to Roseanne [The New Yorker]
Marilyn Monroe Facts [Marilyn Monroe Pages]

Kim Picazio Email: Haleigh Cummings Case

Kim Picazio attorney for Crystal Sheffield, Haleigh Cummings biological mother sent this email to her associates.

The email dated March 30, 2009, sent out to Picazio’s associates, said , “OK guys – Enough of this bullshit personal crap.  I’m heading to a deposition.  I want the shit to stop – Haleigh is still missing.  We either need to find her, or bring the bad guys to the police to face the capital murder charge they deserve.  So PULL UP YOUR PANTS, BRUSH YOURSELF OFF…IT’S GONNA BE A BUMPY RIDE.  I wanna see Misty being led out of her trailer by police in cuffs on national news by the end of the week.  THAT’S OUR GOAL. Let’s get this cocky crack dealer off the streets (see below)!”

Evidence Photos Shown to George & Cindy during Deposition

Read Casey Anthony’s JailHouse Letters

Casey wrote these 50 letters to another inmate in a neighboring cell at the Orange County Jail.

Read them here.

And the latest jailhouse investigation report here.

Inmate Robyn Adams, with whom Anthony exchanged 50 letters while incarcerated, told investigators that Casey Anthony told her that she sometimes used “stuff” to put her daughter to sleep. Another inmate, Maya Derkovic, said Anthony told her a similar story, but never said how she “knocked out” the toddler, according to the documents released today.