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A new documentary about endometriosis, \u201cEnd of the Cycle,\u201d starring Amy Schumer, Julianne Hough, and more, says we should reframe our understanding of Marilyn Monroe in terms of her silent battle with the debilitating condition. <\/p>\n
The film icon had multiple miscarriages, \u201cmystery\u201d hospital trips and was labeled \u201cdifficult\u201d \u2014 all things likely related to the painful disease, according to the movie.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe way she\u2019s been portrayed all these years has not been accurate,\u201d co-director Sammy Jaye said during a screening at the Whitby Hotel.\u00a0\u201cIf anyone mentions Marilyn Monroe in a negative way, you can revert back to this and know that she was going through [the disease] at a time when she couldn\u2019t have said anything, and there wasn\u2019t social media,\u201d noting how the legendary \u201cGentlemen Prefer Blondes,\u201d star would have struggled alone.<\/p>\n Jaye, who also has endometriosis, noted Monroe\u2019s 100th birthday, saying, \u201cYou look at what has and hasn\u2019t changed over the past 100 years with treatments and medicines. . . . not much has changed.\u201d<\/p>\n