You Could See the Fear on Her Face
The blonde bombshell showed up decked out in her dangerously low-cut dress. She simply sat down at Loren’s table and “started talking.” She was about to experience what might just be the first heavily publicized wardrobe malfunction – what people dubbed a “publicity stunt.”
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“She knew everyone was watching,” Loren recalled in her memoir, explaining that as Mansfield “got more and more worked up, suddenly I found one of her breasts in my plate.” Loren said that she was purposely looking right at her chest because she was basically waiting for it to happen. “In my face, you can see the fear.” A reporter was at the right place at the right time, and boom, the photo went viral long before the internet was ever invented.