Favorite First Lady, the embodiment of femininity and the standard of style, the pride of the nation and the heroine of an era. She wrote books about her and made films. In her honor created masterpieces in the fashion world, incidentally having time to delve into the "dirty laundry."
And after all, she deftly managed to get around inquisitive minds and turn her biography into an interlacing of official facts, intriguing conjectures and unintelligible rumors, reserving the right to be misunderstood and real. It's all about her - about the passionate, jealous, brave, forgiving, fair, beautiful and unique Jacqueline Kennedy, 11 rare facts from the life of which we managed to steal from eternity ...
1. Jacqueline Kennedy was the editor of the cult glossy Vogue
You will not believe, but apart from the insane love of horses and riding (Jacqueline herself went on a pony from the age of 3), the future First Lady of the US could add one more unique talent to the treasury of her achievements!
It turns out that even before her marriage, a 21-year-old graduate of the University of Washington DC, Jacqueline Bouvier, wrote an essay for the Prix de Paris competition, which was the best among 1,279 others! The winning text gave the girl a chance to work as a junior editor at the offices of American and French Vogue, but it's no luck - Jackie did not intend to stay for more than a day on her new job. The reason: "too" the female team and the inability to find a good party. Glossy, she preferred the post of columnist in the Washington Times Herald.
2. The bride Jacqueline did not like her wedding dress
The wedding dress in which Jackie said "yes" to John Kennedy stitched designer Anne Lowe. And the bride was terribly unhappy with them, calling her wedding dress a shade!
And, it seems, this is the only time when thousands of American women did not support her, recognizing the wedding dress of Jacqueline - a role model. On her solemn day, Jackie adorned her head with a vintage lace veil, the same one in which her grandmother went under the crown. Then John Kennedy called the bride a fairy, and the people still sounded after them - The White House Fairy ...
3. Before acquaintance with John Kennedy, Jacqueline was already engaged
Yes, the story could never find out the name of this woman if in 1952 she did not break off the engagement with the 22-year-old Wall Street banker John Husted, because of the fear of becoming an ordinary housewife!
4. Jackie Kennedy won an Emmy
No, Jacqueline Kennedy was not a professional actress, but thanks to the tremendous work on the reconstruction of the White House and the subsequent television excursion together with CBS in 1962, American residents appreciated the contribution of the First Lady to the preservation of the country's historical heritage. Then Jackie received a signed Emmy statue, which today adorns the Kennedy Library in Massachusetts.
5. Conversation with Marilyn Monroe
The fact that the family nest "Jack and Jackie" was gradually losing its fabulous appearance, did not know, except that lazy. The spouse continually ran to the left and made novels about which the entire country liked to sew. But the most painful confirmation of the infidelity of the second half for Jacqueline was a telephone call to the White House of Marilyn Monroe herself ... Then Jackie calmly listened to the actress's words about their relationship with the president, and with the maximum restraint and calm replied: "It's wonderful. I'm leaving, and now you will solve all my problems ... "
6. Her pink suit Chanel became the symbol of the murder of her husband
The pink suit, in which Jacqueline was dressed on the day of the murder of her husband, in fact became legendary. Well, firstly, it was not created by the Chanel Fashion House, as many believe, but was simply its exact replica created in America in the Chez Ninon showroom from Chanel's signature fabric (in order to avoid political criticism).
After the tragic shots and the death of John Kennedy on her hands, the suit was all covered with blood. But the first lady refused to shoot it even when, after a couple of hours, the new president Lyndon Johnson was sworn in, saying: "I want everyone to see what they did to John."
7. Jacqueline Kennedy was a polyglot
Jackie Kennedy is one of those who are vitally important every day to learn something new. In this case, she knew that foreign languages were best suited to her. She spoke French, Italian and Polish. And to Latin American voters, Jacqueline has always addressed exclusively in Spanish!
8. Jackie criticized her appearance
Incredibly, but in her appearance, Jacqueline constantly looked for flaws! She did not like the shape of her face - a combination of square cheekbones and wide-set eyes. She hid them behind massive sunglasses, and posing in front of the cameras, always tilted her face half a turn. She did not like her hands. They hid them in gloves or shifted attention to the delicate line of shoulders and waist.
9. The First Lady saved many of the cult buildings in New York City
And you probably did not even suspect that today, if not for annoying letters and petitions Jackie to the mayor, New York lost many of its iconic cultural and tourist attractions, including the building of the Central Station and Lafayette Square! "This is so cruel, let our city die, destroying all the monuments with which it is proud, until there is emptiness from all its history and beauty ..." - wrote in her angry messages Jacqueline.
10. From the people's favorite to the public sinner
October 20, 1968, Jacqueline Kennedy married her long-time friend Aristotle Onassis - a rich Greek shipping tycoon. After the wedding, she lost the right to be protected by the Secret Service, as the widow of the US president. Alas, from that moment "Jackie O" became the favorite target of the paparazzi, and the Catholic Church was condemned as a "public sinner". The greatest impact on the reputation was the appearance of Jackie in the magazine "Hustler". In 1972, she was under the camera camera's eye with a fishing boat sunbathing naked on the private Greek island of her husband.
11. Everything from the beginning ...
After the death of Aristotle Onassis, Jacqueline returned to her favorite business, which once could change the course of her life in a completely different direction - she again began to write! In 1975, the former First Lady moved to New York, where she became a consulting editor at the book publishing house Viking Press, and from 1978 until her death, Jackie worked as an editor at the Doubleday publishing company, for which she wrote several biographies of John F. Kennedy.