Barely a teenager, Elizabeth Taylor was already more beautiful and voluptuous than Miss America. When she arrived at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for our magazine shoot, I was bowled over. I couldn't believe she was only fourteen. She filled out a swimsuit better than I did. We did the pictures, including one shot of me teaching her to float. With that superstructure of hers, she floated just fine. What she couldn't do was sink.

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.

I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.

I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know

I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did.

Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it.