Maria's swim suit pictures are amazing, because she had a weight
problem when she was a child, over which her mother tortured her.
This became part of the pathology that drove her to greatness and
misery.

Maria’s stage mother could have made Gypsy Rose Lee’s stage mother a
saint by comparison.


Barry Gloger

That indicates to me she had exceptional will power to lose the
weight.

Paul Lamar



Every thing she accomplished in her life was achieved thru that great willpower

At one time she weighed well over 200 lbs and Rudolph Bing called her monstrously fat; In 1953 she developed an eating disorder and lost 80 lbs, which some critics claim hurt her voice.   Her eating disorder aggravated her Dematomyositis which caused the rapid deterioration in her voice and early death at 53.

Barry Gloger

A real tragedy. I did not know all that.
Perhaps because of the smoking.

Are there any good books on her life?

Paul Lamar

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