![]() Perfect homemaker the Hollywood glamour queen and a sex symbol in a bathing suit - all rolled into one. The press portrayed me as a kind of post-World War II version of Martha Stewart - "the Mermaid Tycoon," as I was dubbed on the cover of Life the The world remembers me as a movie star, but most of my life I have thought about myself in various family roles - as daughter, sister, wife, and,Ībove all, mother. Misplaced trust, the passionate love, and the need for a safe haven. Edward Bell, my heart goes out to all of them for the naive expectations, the Sometimes I think that there must have been three different women who became Mrs. Kid walks through the gates of MGM a year later and swims her way to movie stardom. Of course, I have to chuckle as that same I'm awed by the kid with no theatrical training who walked onto the stage of Billy Rose's Aquacade at the San Francisco Exposition and became a media darling overnight. I'm still rooting for that determined teenage swimmer who kicked and stroked her way through hundreds of miles of training in the water to a national championship. I love that sweet little child who grew up in the depression and, being the fifth child,įelt the need to try so hard to please her family. ![]() ![]() Which Esther Williams do you want to hear about? As I look back through the filing cabinet of my life while writing this book, I realize that there are many of us. ![]()
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