Cover Girl Facts About Dorian Leigh, The Model Who Flirted With Fire
People just couldn’t get enough of the stunning model, Dorian Leigh. Her career transformed her life into a dramatic rollercoaster filled with countless men and awful tragedies.
Dorian may have looked picture-perfect, but her distressing story is far from it.
1. She Had Young Parents
Dorian Leigh Parker’s parents were still teenagers when they welcomed her into their lives on April 23, 1917. Two more daughters followed closely. The young parents seemed to have a creative flair when it came to naming their children.
After Dorian, there were Florian and Georgiabell.
When the family moved from Texas to New Jersey, Dorian's father had a eureka moment: He’d invented something that would set him up with cash for life.
2. She Got A Big Surprise
George Parker was ecstatic. His invention of a new kind of etching acid meant he could stop working forever. It was around this time that his wife also had an "aha"
moment—something that would harshly alter her husband’s plans for a relaxing retirement.
Elizabeth Parker was starting menopause—or she thought she was. It seemed that Elizabeth had mistaken her symptoms because she was actually pregnant. Dorian’s third sister was born in 1932, 13 years after Leigh.
It looked as though George Parker’s retirement wouldn’t be that peaceful after all.
3. She Was Naughty
In the wake of her new sister's arrival, Dorian did something incredibly naughty. Her mother wanted to name the new baby after her three best friends: Renee, Anne, and Cecilia. That's when Dorian made an awful suggestion.
She convinced her mother to order the names in a specific way. The new baby's name became Cecelia Renee Ann Parker...but as you can see, the first initial of every name spelled out a shockingly crude word.
Dorian Leigh clearly had a crafty side. But as an adult, this would turn into bold-faced lying.
4. She Altered The Truth
After high school, Dorian signed up for Randolph-Macon Women’s College. Her autobiography says that when she was still a sophomore, she already had a husband. She claimed she was just 17 at the time, but the records tell a different story.
Dorian wasn't a teenage bride at all. Records prove that she was actually 20 years old when she married Marshall Powell Hawkins. Either Dorian was a liar, or she wasn’t good with numbers. This next fact suggests that she had no problem with her calculations.
