"From the age of six, Jayne Mansfield knew she wanted to be a movie star. The "working man's Monroe," as she later came to be known, was 21 when she moved to Los Angeles in 1954 alongside her then-husband Paul Mansfield and their three-year-old daughter, Jayne Marie. She immediately got to work making her superstar aspirations a reality-a scheme that gained more traction with each passing day."
""If I couldn't go through them, I figured I'd just have to go around," she told the Saturday Evening Post of the powers that be in 1957. "Then, right at that moment, I made the greatest discovery of my life. I discovered publicity." The Dallas-raised starlet bleached her naturally brunette hair, played up a comedic "dumb blonde" persona (despite her purported genius-level IQ), and was photographed as often as possible."
"Everything in Mansfield's life, including her trademark feminine interior design style, aligned with a carefully constructed identity. Pink was her signature color, and she embraced an extravagantly girlish style when it came to the home: Faux fur, hearts, cherubs, and stuffed animals were incorporated in excess throughout the actor's longtime SoCal dwelling, which she dubbed the Pink Palace."
Jayne Mansfield wanted to be a movie star from age six and moved to Los Angeles in 1954 with husband Paul Mansfield and daughter Jayne Marie. She pursued acting relentlessly, often neglecting household chores while chasing her dream. Mansfield secured a studio contract within a year and won a Golden Globe within three years for The Girl Can't Help It. She deliberately cultivated a bombshell image, bleaching her hair and adopting a comedic "dumb blonde" persona while using publicity as a strategy. Mansfield extended that persona into her home life, decorating the Pink Palace with faux fur, hearts, cherubs, and stuffed animals. A decade after moving, she welcomed daughter Mariska Hargitay.
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