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With the help of Yahoo! Image Search, we forced ourselves to look at many, many pictures of Marilyn Monroe to determine whether her famous beauty mark was real. Such are the rigors of online trivia research. You were right to observe that the beauty mark arrived with the transformation of chirpy, brunette Norma Jean to the blond, sultry Marilyn. This page of early modeling shots from the 1940s shows no beauty mark. If it was artificial, however, Marilyn was nothing if not consistent. It always appeared just above her lip, along her dimple line. The official site in the Marilyn Monroe category of the Yahoo! Directory features a gallery of stills that attests to this. Fortunately, the issue was resolved at Skinema, a fantastic site created by a dermatologist that's devoted to movie stars and their facial abnormalities. Marilyn's beauty mark was a facial mole, and was probably erased with make-up in her early career. The site also features a fascinating treatise on why facial moles are considered attractive. Other famous celebrities with prominent facial moles include Robert DeNiro,
Sherilyn Fenn, and Cindy Crawford. We also learned that in piercing circles, a "Monroe" refers to a stud inserted above the lip. And as to whether Marilyn had an extra toe on her left foot, as an early publicity still seemed to indicate, the answer is no.
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