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

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.

Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.

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

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.

It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious

Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues