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Starting her morning

songbird — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 23:57:27 GMT

From Lost In History. Starting her morning... Pre Bogey?

Re: Starting her morning

Katcat1 — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 00:09:13 GMT

Smoking is the hardest habit to kick. Actually, an addiction. I am going on 5 years smoke-free and the reason I quit is I could hardly breathe and I was very, very sick and hospitalized. I never looked back.

Re: Starting her morning

ECBG — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 00:11:34 GMT

Maybe she was in a disfunctional relation and felt trapped. At that time, the ladies never were blessed with the choices we had, nor the education. There is no joy at all on her face. She looks totally resigned.

Isn't that what we all wanted to grow up to be?

Re: Starting her morning

songbird — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 00:17:59 GMT

@ECBG wrote:
Maybe she was in a disfunctional relation and felt trapped. At that time, the ladies never were blessed with the choices we had, nor the education. There is no joy at all on her face. She looks totally resigned.

Isn't that what we all wanted to grow up to be?

Well to be fair smoking was not known to be the danger it would be. Also Lauren was a model. She was super thin (like the models of today) Smoking and coffee replaced breakfast. I think the photo was from her modeling days. She started out at 17 which was early for that in those days. Her mom always went out to photo shoots with her.

Re: Starting her morning

Citrine1 — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 00:26:25 GMT

I used to start my mornings like that too. And end my nights that way. And smoke in between other stuff all day long. I'll be off cigarettes 13 years in August. I still miss it.

Re: Starting her morning

songbird — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 00:31:17 GMT

@Citrine1 wrote:
I used to start my mornings like that too. And end my nights that way. And smoke in between other stuff all day long. I'll be off cigarettes 13 years in August. I still miss it.

You might miss, but your body won't. Glad you did it. I never smoked ....though in high school, I was sometimes tempted. It helped that both my parents never smoked.

Re: Starting her morning

Snowpuppy — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 00:33:08 GMT

Wasn't she 19 when she met Bogie?

She always said she had but one great marriage.

After that, well, not so much.

Re: Starting her morning

Q4u — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 00:40:04 GMT

My Mother started smoking in England when they were rationed severely (food) during the war, but she could always get cigs from the Yanks. She never could quit.... then one day 35 years later she got an upper respiratory infection and quit cold turkey. Unfortunately a few years later she was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. .So shocking, I still try not to think about it.

Re: Starting her morning

GenXmuse — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 00:41:46 GMT

A steady diet of coffee and cigarettes were de rigueur at that time for celebrity women. Maybe it still is.

Re: Starting her morning

songbird — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 01:02:33 GMT

Early modeling picture of her

Re: Starting her morning

suzyQ3 — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 01:43:57 GMT

@Q4u wrote:
My Mother started smoking in England when they were rationed severely (food) during the war, but she could always get cigs from the Yanks. She never could quit.... then one day 35 years later she got an upper respiratory infection and quit cold turkey. Unfortunately a few years later she was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. .So shocking, I still try not to think about it.

@Q4u, my mother was equally unlucky. She quit cold turkey at least 20 years before her diagnosis of lung cancer, which spread to her liver.

Re: Starting her morning

riley1 — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 01:54:59 GMT

June 1 was my 13th anniversary. Glad I gave it up and feel much better.

Re: Starting her morning

songbird — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 03:26:33 GMT

@Snowpuppy wrote:
Wasn't she 19 when she met Bogie?

She always said she had but one great marriage.

After that, well, not so much.

Yes. Her modeling career started and ended early. She had only been a model for about a year or so before she moved in to acting. Her mother was opposed to her modeling but not to acting. At least her acting improved later on.

Re: Starting her morning

AuntG — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 19:36:48 GMT

Her choice, but that may account for her raspy voice. I don't like to think about what models do to stay so thin.

Re: Starting her morning

Silver Lining — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 21:23:08 GMT

@Q4u wrote:
My Mother started smoking in England when they were rationed severely (food) during the war, but she could always get cigs from the Yanks. She never could quit.... then one day 35 years later she got an upper respiratory infection and quit cold turkey. Unfortunately a few years later she was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. .So shocking, I still try not to think about it.

@Q4u, my mother was English, too. She didn't talk about it much but told us that food was severely rationed. Having to run for their lives to shelters when bombs were dropped was also extremely traumatic. She talked about the Yanks and cigarettes. My mother married one and he probably got her started. She smoked off and on but did not develop any related illnesses as far as I know. On the other hand, my father died at age 59, most definitely related to years of smoking. Condolences to you about your mother's death no matter how many years ago it happened. I love to read here about our English mothers although some of the stories make me cry.