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


PS - My daughter is a little-known, albeit professional opera singer

She’s in this cast photo of Madama Butterfly in Japan


Barry Gloger

Must be hard walking on those shoes :-)


Paul Lamar


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