Marilyn Monroe Wannabes

August 5, 2012

Paris Hilton

“There’s nobody in the world like me,” Hilton told the UK’s Sunday Times in 2006. “I think every decade has an iconic blonde – like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana – and right now, I’m that icon.”

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Madonna

Madonna's 1985 "Material Girl" video was an homage to Monroe. The pop icon even wore the same pink dress and gloves paired with dazzling jewelry that Monroe did in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

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Megan Fox

"I really admire Marilyn Monroe, but I would never try to emulate her. I got the tattoo as a warning," Fox said in 2009. "It warns me not to let myself be treated so badly by the film industry so that it breaks me down."

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Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer Lopez recreated Marilyn Monroe's iconic "Happy Birthday" performance for George Lopez's birthday in April 2010. Monroe sang the tune to then-President of the United States John F. Kennedy in 1962.

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Scarlett Johansson

"We really weren't trying to recreate any particular image. It was just their idea of the iconic blonde, and naturally people think that's Marilyn Monroe," Johansson said about her Dolce & Gabbana ad campaign. "Having said that, I love Marilyn. I think she was incredibly beautiful and a very underrated actress. I am a curvy woman who is blonde, and perhaps we are both comfortable in our femininity, but I think that is as far as the comparison goes."

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Michelle Williams

"I knew I wouldn't be able to resist, eventually," Williams told the Daily Mail about taking on the role of Monroe in My Week with Marilyn. "Physically and vocally, everything about her is different from me. I've kind of gone to school and had teachers to help me understand Marilyn, so I could project an essence of her."

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Anna Nicole Smith

"I just feel a connection with Marilyn Monroe," Smith said. "I just love her. I just completely feel what she went through." Both women died of drug overdoses -- Monroe at 36, Smith at 39.

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Mira Sorvino

In the 1996 made-for-TV film Norma Jean & Marilyn, Sorvino played Monroe post-fame while Ashley Judd played the pre-fame Monroe, Norma Jean.

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Mariah Carey

Carey bought Monroe's white baby grand piano for $600,000 and even named her daughter Monroe after her icon.

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Christina Aguilera

Aguilera often emulates Monroe's platinum blonde hair and pink lipstick. Her Back to Basics album cover in particular paid homage to the 1950s icon.