We all know Elizabeth Taylor as a screen goddess and a wife eight times over, but few of us know Elizabeth, the mother. These exclusive never before seen photographs throw new light on one of the world’s most famous women.
See stunning Elizabeth Taylor throughout her career here…
At 76, Elizabeth Taylor still lives in her Bel Air house, transformed into a kind of museum dedicated to her glory years. Surrounded by her photographs and masterpieces (including paintings by Monet, Renoir and the famous Andy Warhol portrait of her), her 18th century furniture and her pets, she watches her films in her big projection room and, at 4pm precisely, is served English tea. Plump, fabulously wealthy — her fortune is estimated to be $150million — she is incontestably the last survivor of Hollywood’s golden age.
The life of the violet-eyed actress has not been a model of wisdom or virtue, but as she said, “The problem with people who have no vices is that you can be almost positive that they’ll have boring virtues”.
In 1993, she summed up her life thus: “Everything was handed to me — looks, fame, wealth, honour, love. I rarely had to fight for anything. But I’ve paid for that luck with disasters — the deaths of good friends, terrible illnesses, destructive addictions, broken marriages. I’m a survivor — a living example of what people can go through and survive.”
And she has survived it all — even, remarkably, being almost broke and pregnant back in 1952. That summer, MGM had cast Elizabeth in The Girl Who Had Everything, but during filming, it was discovered she was five months pregnant.
See stunning Elizabeth Taylor throughout her career here…
To see these exclusive pics and read the full story about Elizabeth Taylor, pick up the November issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly — out now!
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