Frances Kompus turned 100 years old in November 2021. Many of the people who are important to her, such us her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren were there to wish her a happy birthday. Well, although it’s rare for someone to reach this milestone, it’s not unusual. What is in fact unusual in this story is that among Frances’ guests were her two older sisters, Lucy Pochop, who is 102 years old, and Julia Korpiva, who is 104.
The three sisters were born in Kansas where they lived in a farm with their parents. The sisters’ father died at the age of 98, so it’s safe to say that longevity runs in the family.
As we grow older, we lose more and more people that are close to us. However, a lady from Kansas, USA, still has sisters by her side despite their old age.
Speaking of the possible reasons they all reached their milestone birthdays, the sisters say that the secret is in eating well. They remember the times when they were making their own bread and didn’t consume ready-made or bought food.
“We always had homemade bread, just plain potatoes, and gravy and meat. With those cookstoves, that was hard to bake. The temperature was hard to keep. Even if it didn’t come out good, we still ate it,” Julia said laughing. “I am thankful for us girls being together all the time, my parents and my faith,” she added.
They even have some useful advice for the young people and say that what kept them vital is regular exercise as well as faith.
“Walk a lot,” Frances said, before Julia added: “I think faith comes first – and thank your parents and grandparents.”
What is interesting about these sisters is that they all live independently. While Julia and Lucy’s apartments are right next to one another, Francis lives few blocks away, which means they get to spend quality time together.
Happy birthday, Francis, you are lucky to still have your sisters in your life.
Jacqueline “Jackie” Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was a supremely stylish and eloquent young woman who brought optimism to the White House after becoming First Lady.
She captivated the entire country the moment she was first spotted in the company of her husband John Kennedy on the campaign trail. The two married shortly after they were first introduced to each other by a mutual friend. At the time they tied the knot, JFK was a senator and she worked as a reporter-photographer at the Washington Herald, which was her first job following her graduation from the George Washington University.
Jackie’s father was a stock broker and a wealthy man so she had the chance to get education at prestigious private schools and travel the world.
As a young child, she was described by one of her teachers, Miss Platt, as “a darling child, the prettiest little girl, very clever, very artistic, and full of the devil.”
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People close to JFK and Jackie spoke of the instant connection they both felt the moment they were both invited to a dinner party in Georgetown. “She knew instantly that he would have a profound, perhaps disturbing, influence on her life,” Jackie’s family friend Molly Thayer said, as quoted in America’s Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
“My brother really was smitten with her right from the very beginning when he first met her at dinner,” JFK’s brother, Ted Kennedy, claimed.
JFK and Jackie married on September 12, 1953, at St. Mary’s Church in Newport, Rhode Island. Following their honeymoon in Mexico, he was recovering from a back injury and she encouraged him to write a biography, Profiles in Courage, for which he received a Pulitzer Prize.
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Seven years after tying the knot, John F. Kennedy became the youngest president of The United States of America. His youth was felt as a pleasant change in the political scene and he and his wife made a perfect team whose main goal became the well-being of the American people.
JFK and Jackie welcomed four children together, Caroline Kennedy, John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr, and two other children who both died shortly after birth.
Since they had toddlers, Jackie went on a mission to restore and preserve the White House as well as turn it into more children-friendly place with a tree-house and swings.
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Unfortunately, Jackie’s life changed forever when President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas Texas. In his honor, she created the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
She was left heartbroken. The fairytale ended and she decided to stay out of the spotlight. Then, in 1968, Jackie married Greek shipping magnate, Aristotle Onassis. In 1975, Onassis passed away, and Jackie was left a widow again.
Until her passing in May, 1994, the former First Lady worked as an editor. She was laid to rest next to JFK at the Arlington National Cemetery, outside of Washington D.C.
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Jackie was a woman adored by millions. Always soft-spoken and grounded, she is until this day considered a very important historical figure.
Those close to her describe her as a loving human being. Her former bodyguard Clint Hill revealed details of the former First Lady’s private life which make us love her even more.
Hill said that when he was assigned to protect Jackie, he wasn’t happy at all because he expected to accompany her to ballet, fashion shows, and tea parties. But it didn’t take much for him to realize that she wasn’t a typical First Lady.
“She wanted the children to be brought up as normal children. Nothing special. The agents were to treat them as if they were just one of their own. If the kids fell down, they got up. You didn’t help them. They had to learn all this stuff on their own. She wanted to avoid as much publicity as she could for the children and for herself,” he explained.
“Oh, she was a great mother. She was very concerned about them, about their education. She formed a school there in the White House so that Caroline could go to school and had a bunch of several young classmates brought in from outside, from all walks of life. And it was right up on the third floor of the White House, had two teachers. They used to play out on the south grounds,” he added.
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One time, while she was on holiday at Squaw Island, she realized that Hill’s two children were around the same age as her children. Although he had taken the family with him while protecting Jackie, he wasn’t able to spend time with them. Jackie then told him to bring his kids and let them play with her children. He quite liked the idea, but he had to say no.
“I finally convinced her; I said, ‘This just isn’t a good idea. I’m a government employee. You’re the wife of the president. They’re the president’s children. I don’t think it’d be a very good idea for my two children to be playing with your two children, and something should happen.’ She finally understood the problem and said, ‘Okay.’”
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When President Kennedy was shot, Hill was the one who climbed onto the car and made sure no photographs were taken of the killing. He then drove Jackie to the hospital. She was utterly heartbroken and confused, but she still found the strength to speak to Hill.
“She said, ‘Oh, what’s going to happen to you now, Mr. Hill?’ She was so much more concerned about my wellbeing and that of the other agents that were involved, that she wanted to make sure that we were going to be okay,” Hill shared with JFK Library.
“And I told her, ‘I’ll be okay, Mrs. Kennedy. I’ll be okay.’ She hadn’t changed clothes. She hadn’t cleaned up. She hadn’t done anything, she just was in shock. And she was more concerned about us than she was about herself.”
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We love you, Jackie, and we are forever thankful for everything you did for the country as a First Lady.
Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson, the host of the most-watched cable news show in the United States, Tucker Carlson Tonight, has gained over 3.7 million followers on Twitter. He has worked as a political analyst for Fox News since 2009, both as a guest and a guest host, before he launched his own show that attracted millions of Americans.
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Becoming more and more popular with each episode of his show, people became more and more interested in his personal life. If you are eager to learn more about this successful journalist, author, political commentator and columnist, stay with us.
When he was just 6 years old, Tucker’s mother, Lisa McNear Lombardi, who was an artist, divorced his father and left the family, so he and his brother grew up with their dad.
In fact, it was his father, Dick Carlson, who suggested Tucker should try himself as a journalist because he was a famous journalist and the director of Voice of America himself, so wanting his son to follow into his footsteps wasn’t surprising.
Tucker, however, graduated from Trinity College of Connecticut in 1991, with a BA in History. Before that, he studied in Switzerland, at the elite college at Lac Leman from where he was kicked out for reasons still unknown after which he attended boarding school St. George’s School, in Middletown, Road Island.
After finishing college, Tucker dreamed of becoming part of the CIA, but failed to get the job. It was then that his father said to him, “You should consider journalism. They’ll take anybody,” according to Columbia Journalism Review. This didn’t seem like a bad idea and Tucked took his dad’s advice which later turned to be the best thing to do having in mind the popularity he enjoys nowadays.
His first job as a journalist was that of a fact-reviewer in Policy Review.
“Tucker was an enterprising, hard-working shoe-leather reporter,” his former colleague, Adam Myerson, said.
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During his early days on TV, Tucker’s “trademark” were his colorful bow ties, he later ditched. “If you wear a bow tie, it’s like [wearing] a middle finger around your neck; you’re just inviting scorn and ridicule… the number of people screaming the F-word at me… it wore me down after a while so I gave in and became conventional,” he said.
People’s favorite host has been married to the love of his life, Susan Andrews, for almost 30 years. What is interesting is that the two met when they were both just 15 years old. Speaking of those days, Tucker told People how Susan was “the cutest 10th grader in America.”
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Before proposing to her, Tucker asked Susan’s dad, who was a respected man, for her hand in marriage. Today, he says he simply can’t imagine his life without her. Honestly, the two make a truly charming couple.
Tucker and Susan are parents of four daughters and a son.
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His children, whom Tucker calls his “little angels” keep a low profile. Tucker wrote about his son once in a column, but avoids to speak of them. However, he confesses how he “forbids” his son from watching Oprah Winfrey because he believes her beliefs are anti-male and can affect his self-confidence. “When I had a son, I stopped watching Oprah because it was just too anti-male, and I felt like I did not want to bring him up in a home where Oprah was constantly attacking men,” he said.
“And remember, keep your boys away from Oprah or it will make them feel bad about being male. It’s absolutely true. Keep your girls away from rap, keep your boys away from Oprah. And everybody will be fine,” Tucker added.
The FOX News‘ primetime anchor is supporting the charity Horton’s Kids, which helps young people at risk from Washington D.C.
An event which took place back in 2000 could easily ruin the host’s career and marriage after a woman accused him of rape. Shortly after, he was cleared of the accusations as it was determined he wasn’t at the Kentucky hamburger restaurant where the alleged rape took place. The woman later confessed that she was suffering from schizophrenia and was delusional.
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In 2018, the family went through another unpleasant event when someone tried breaking into their home. At the time, Tucker’s wife was home alone. She locked herself in the pantry and called 911 as the attacker was throwing himself at the front door and cracked it.
Speaking of the incident, Tucker described it as a treat and told Washington Post: “They weren’t asking me to change anything, they weren’t protesting a policy or advocating for legislation. They were threatening me and my family and telling me to leave my own neighborhood in the city that I grew up in.”
Tucker has a picture perfect life with his children and his loving wife of more than 30 years by his side.
With all the shows about doctors, lawyers, and cops, Baywatch, the iconic show depicting the everyday adventures of a group of lifeguards was a true refreshment back in the day.
Among all the characters we all loved so much was the beautiful blonde lifeguard Shauni McClain played by actress Erika Eleniak. When she appeared on the show, she took everyone’s breath away thus producers decided to upgrade her role and her character was taken under the wing of Jill Riley, played by Shawn Weatherley.
However, once the show took a bit of a different direction and Pamela Anderson became part of the cats, Erika believed she should take a break and eventually leave it.
Speaking of Baywatch, Erika said in a recent interview: “I loved being there, and I loved the role, especially the second season. I got some great storylines. I really got to dig my chops into some good acting roles. We did Baywatch to be a serious look at lifeguarding.”
Over time, she somehow started feeling uncomfortable being part of the show and said, “For me, as soon as it became even sexier, when it became syndicated, it was definitely not comfortable. It ended up being a bit of a push and pull between myself and the producer sometimes. So when Pamela came on, it was just the perfect fit for Baywatch – she was definitely footloose and fancy-free and loved being more of an exhibitionist than I did.”
Erika was part of other series and films as well, including E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, where she starred at the age of just 12, the horror film The Blob, the 1993 film adaption of The Beverly Hillbillies, and more.
Today, the beautiful actress is out of the spotlight and doesn’t appear on screen, but she’s active running her podcast The Spiritual Alchemy Podcast. She’s also very active on Instagram where she posts photos of her and her family.
This year, Erika, who is happily married to key grip Roch Daigle with whom she has a daughter, is 52 years old. Honestly, based on her looks, we would never guess it. She defies age and looks absolutely stunning.
Bringing up little ones is a hard time, between the tantrums and the crying and screaming that naturally occurs when they test how far they can go, even a little arguing as they grow up is all in with the growing up deal!
A child making a scene is for sure what no one wants to deal with in public though. In this case, a young single mom from England called Sammie Welch, learned very fast that keeping her little boy occupied is the very best method to avoid all the problems and the frustration!
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Sammie with her three years old son Rylan at her side and a stranger right next to her, absolutely did her best to keep her little boy occupied during the long train ride. She didn’t want Rylan being naughty or having a temper tantrum during the journey.
To make the best of the situation Sammie played games with her little boy and asked him about his day and even gave him a quiet little lesson about manners in public and especially on places like the train!
In fact, the more they chatted together the more comfortable they were together and relaxed. He was an absolute little angel thanks to his mom’s actions!
Before the train reached her stop the guy next to her got up to leave the train, but as he got up he handed her something, it was a moment before Sammie realized what it was, it was a note wrapped around a five-pound note!!
Quietly she read the note to herself:
“Have a drink on me, you’re a credit to your generation, polite and teaching the little boy good manners.”
The guy had also written in the back of the note too!
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The lovely word he had written on the back of the note was:
“P.S. I have a daughter your age, someone did the same for her once. Hope when she has children she is as good a mother as you.”
It was such a lovely note and a great compliment too, the best compliment anyone could give to Sammie, she really pours her heart and soul into raising her little boy, and the note made her feel completely awesome!
Sammie broke into tears; such was her emotional response to the letter she read. She felt so inspired by the note and the kind gesture by this guy she didn’t know. She didn’t want this guy’s kind actions to go without thanks!
She posted to Facebook with photos of the note and even asked local newspapers to help her find him to say thanks. Her determination paid off and finally, she found him.
The wonderful stranger was Ken Saunders, 50-year-old, who worked as a project manager, and as his note had said he was a father to a woman about Sammie’s age too!
It was super lucky that Ken saw in his newspaper, one glorious morning, the story about his note, he asked the paper to put Sammie and him in touch with each other!
He described to the newspaper that moment when he realized that this small action in his note and the small gift of money mean something so big to single mothers!
He said:
“I just couldn’t believe it. There was this massive story. It was quite surreal and I texted my daughter Romani to warn her I’d done something embarrassing yet again.”
Sammie, Rylan, and Ken were at last reunited, Sammie had the chance to say thank you properly and she could explain in her own words.
She said:
“I worry I’m not doing a good job with Rylan all the time – all the time. I worry, am I too hard on him? Am I too soft on him? I try so hard to get it right. So for someone to say I’m doing a good job means everything.”
Ken just showed us all that even a tiny little gesture can have a lasting and profound effect on someone. Sammie feels confident about her parenting with Rylan, something that most mothers really strive hard to achieve.
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Ivone Weldon’s name first appeared in the media after the premiere of The Expendables 2 when her striking looks attracted the attention of many. In fact, when she walked on the red carpet, many confused her with Sylvester Stallone’s mother, Jackie Stallone.
As the cast members were spotted on the premiere in the company of their families, magazines reported that Sylvester Stallone was also accompanied by his loved ones, wife Jennifer Flavin and daughters Scarlet, Sophia, and Sistine. Of course, media outlets wrote that then 91-year-old Jackie was also there to support her son.
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Well, Jackie was always someone who made headlines because of many reasons. Despite being Sly’s mom, she was also an astrologer who never hesitated to scold her ex-husbands publicly on various TV shows. She always spoke her mind when it came to Sly’s girlfriends too and wasn’t afraid to tell everyone around why she wasn’t fond of them. Jackie was also involved in the beauty industry with her lines of face masks and other beauty products.
However, what Jackie was probably most known for were the many plastic surgeries she went through during her life. One thing is certain, her obsession with the surgeries did help her defy her age.
When the media spotted the elderly woman with a large trout pout and slim figure on TheExpendables 2 premiere, they couldn’t help but believe that was Jackie herself. The woman did look quite younger than Sly’s mother, but everyone believed she had simply undergone another surgery.
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However, after the stir the photos caused, it was revealed that the woman who was a spitting image of Jackie Stallone was Ivone Weldon.
On the day of the premiere, Jackie stayed home to take care of her daughter who felt ill. ”I’d actually been on the phone to the paramedics that night because she was so bad. There was no question of me ever going to that premiere. I’d told Sylvester that I wasn’t going to be able to make it because I had to be with his sister,” Jackie told Daily Mail.
Speaking of Sly’s reaction, Jackie added: ”He got the shock of his life when he got told that his mother was up ahead of him, making a spectacle of herself. That’s the last place I would have been.”
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After the social media was flooded with photos of Ivone, Jackie wasn’t happy.
“What an ugly woman. Fat arms. Trout pout. Horse face. I thought a face like that went out with the Ice Age. And those bandy legs! If I had a kid with those legs, I would break them and have them put in braces,” she told Daily Mail of her lookalike and continued: “If I had a face like that I wouldn’t leave the house — or at least not without a paper bag over my head. In fact, if I had a face like that I’d probably shoot myself. To be honest, in the end — after I got over the shock — I found it funny. I haven’t had a lot to laugh about recently.”
As everyone though that this confusion with the photos of Ivone was behind, they started reappearing online once again following Jackie’s passing in 2020. The news of her death was announced with photos of Ivone by some media outlets.
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Although not much is known about Ivone, at least the public got to learn what this woman was doing at the premiere. It turned out that she is the mother of one of the producers of the action film, Les Weldon, whose writing and producing credits include more than 70 films.
Parenthood isn’t easy. It starts with sleepless nights, changing diapers, and continues with constant care throughout the whole life. We are all aware of how much parents sacrifice for the well-being of their children and never ask anything in return, and that makes moms and dads the most special creatures on Earth.
However, stories of children who repay their parents once they become successful individuals is what melts our hearts. It shows moms and dads that they did a great job raising such caring children, and that’s their greatest gift.
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Pavin Smith is a young man who was taught to live by the true values. His talent and dedication made him the 7th overall pick for the Arizona Diamondbacks in the MLB amateur draft in 2017, when he was just 21 years old.
This led for Pavin to be signed onto a minor league deal with a 5 million dollar bonus!
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As smart as he is, Pavin knew exactly what to do with the money. He was about to give his mom and dad the surprise of a lifetime and Christmas was just the time for his miraculous gift to be handed to the people who did so much for him.
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The family was gathered around the Christmas tree when Pavin handed his mom an envelope. Neither she nor her husband and daughter had any idea what it could be. When she opened it, there was a note there that brought tears of joy in everyone’s eyes. It read,
“Thank you for raising me in a great home filled with love. Because of all the sacrifices you made to get me where I am, I want our family home to be YOURS… so I am paying off your mortgage. Merry Christmas from your grateful son. Pavin”
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Mom and dad were overjoyed. They no longer have to pay for the house, because it’s already theirs.
Pavin was glad he could do such thing for his parents. He posted the video of his mom and dad revealing the gift on Twitter with the following caption. “Thank you for everything you have done for me! This doesn’t make up for any of it. Love you both so much. Our home is finally all YOURS. Merry Christmas!”
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Who wouldn’t be proud with a caring and loving son like Pavin?
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Gloria Swanson ruled Hollywood for many years. She was adored by millions and was considered “The Queen of Screen.”
Born in 1899 to a father who worked as a civilian official in the US Army Transport Service, Gloria traveled a lot with her family. She learned a lot about other places and cultures and always knew she would be famous one day. She dreamed of becoming an opera singer, but one visit of the Essanay Movie Studio with her aunt in the summer of 1914 changed it all for this incredible woman.
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When she was still just a teenager, she started working as an extra for the studio and was paid around $13 a week. During an occasion, she found herself in a queue with a group of other teenagers who were waiting for the great Charlie Caplin to examine their talent. Eventually, Gloria was the one who was hired. Her happiness, however, lasted for an hour because it took that much time for Chaplin to fire her. “So I lost my chance to work with Chaplin, and that was a shame because I could have learned so much about comedy,” she said back in the day.
The truth is that not getting that chance to work with Chaplin at the time turned to be the best thing that could happen to her. “I …considered his rejection a real compliment,” she wrote in her autobiography. “I would have been mortified if anybody I knew had ever seen me get kicked in the pants…by an odd sprite in a hobo outfit.”
After her parents separated, Gloria and her mother moved to Hollywood. Soon after, she was recruited by Famous Players-Lasky, which eventually became Paramount. The studio helped Gloria turn into a massive superstar. All of a sudden, everyone was enchanted with this femme fatale. It was enough for her name to appear in a film for huge number of people to go and buy a ticket to see her on screen.
Gloria was featured in a number of classic films such as Don’t Change Your Husband, Bluebeard’s 8th wife, Zaza, and Madame Sans-Gêne.
In 1926, she decided her work with Paramount should come to an end. In order to keep her, the studio offered her $1 million a year, which was an incomprehensive amount of money back in the day, but she refused to stay. Instead, she joined United Artist, which was founded by Charlie Caplin, among others, and premised on allowing actors to control their own interests, rather than being dependent upon commercial studios.
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Gloria was nominated for an Academy Award three times, for the films Sadie Thompson, The Trespasser, and Sunset Boulevard.
“When I think about doing a character, I find that I see in my mind’s eye a person I’m reading about in a script,” Gloria Swanson once said of her acting. “I give that person like a painter… or like a sculptor, who before even making one cut with his knife can see what he wants in a piece of stone. So I’m a canvas: it’s in the mind’s eye, and then you transfer it to the canvas with certain tools.”
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Gloria Swanson was married six times. She was also involved in a relationship with JFK’s father who was said to have financed her films. Her relationships with men were often troublesome. Her daughter, Michelle, once told The Guardian of her mother’s love life: “My mother’s relations with men were mostly disastrous. She was married six times, and she wanted to be eternally in love. Her marriage to my father, Michael Farmer, an Irish playboy, just over two years. Ultimately, she was looking for men to dominate her, which never really happened.
“Men came into her life like machos, and they left like poodles sitting up for a biscuit. She was incredibly feminine in appearance, but she had a masculine mind, she had a dominating personality,” Michelle added. “She wanted to do all the jobs [on the set] – the lighting, camerawork, everything, she made sure what she said was the law.”
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Gloria married her first husband, Berry Wallace, when she was just 17 years old. The marriage lasted two years during which she got pregnant. Despite her age and his heavy drinking, she wanted to give birth to the child. Unfortunately, he slipped her some medicine which caused her to abort the child.
Her second husband, Herbert Somborn, was a movie company president. While married with him, she gave birth to a daughter named Gloria. He accused the actress of infidelity and claimed she cheated on him with at least 13 men. The year she divorced him, she adopted a son named Joseph.
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In 1925, she married Henry de La Falaise. At the time, she was on the top of her career and though that giving birth to another child could negatively affect her career so when she got pregnant, she secretly aborted the child.
Gloria went on to tie the knot three more times, giving birth to her daughter Michelle with her fourth husband, Michael Farmer.
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“The Queen of Screen” passed away at the age of 84, in 1984 as a result of heart ailment. At the time of her death, she had a net worth of $10.
“When I was young, no man my age made enough money to support me in the style expected of me,” Gloria Swanson once told The Guardian. “There’s no sense kidding myself. I love all the pomp and luxury and style. When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid The Bills. That’s the story of my private life.”
One thing is certain, Gloria Swanson was larger than life.
