A Lousy Ad Girl
No parental approval means no money from mom and dad. And so, Kelly supported herself with modeling gigs and commercials. She got her face on the cover of Cosmopolitan (her chin mostly hidden behind a glove).
Grace Kelly. Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images
But most of her modeling gigs were less than glamorous – like shampoo, cigarettes and beer ads. She wasn’t the best ad girl, though. Kelly admitted that she was lousy at them, and she even had a sense of humor about it. “Anyone watching me give the pitch for Old Gold would have switched to Camel.”