When she was 19, a young girl named Berniece Baker Miracle received a letter from a woman named Gladys Baker. That woman was actually her estranged birth mother – a woman she barely knew. In her letter, Gladys told her daughter that she had a sister. That sister was a 12-year-old girl named Norma Jeane.
But you probably know her better as Marilyn Monroe . As you can imagine, the letter changed Berniece’s life. In fact, the news of the relation changed both their lives. From that moment on, the two half-sisters began a relationship that continued until Marilyn’s early death in 1962.