Born into a top tycoon, but failed to make her life smooth.
In the eyes of many people, those who come from the rich seem to be more smooth and smooth, calling the wind and rain.
But who could have imagined that a woman from a top tycoon had gone through great ups and downs from birth.
She was even called "poor rich little girl" by the media of the time.
But she did not go with the trend, but lived into a legend of the times.
At the age of 15, he shot a blockbuster for "Harper's Bazaar"; got married at the age of 17; held his first solo exhibition at the age of 24; entered the show business circle at the age of 30; became popular in the fashion circle at the age of 52; held his first art exhibition in his life at the age of 77, which was a great success; and at the age of 94, he still had countless fans...
She's a generation of celebrities— Gloria Vanderbilt.
Gloria, once the richest man in the United States, came from the famous Vanderbilt family in the United States, and came from a prominent family.
She is the great-granddaughter of the "Train King" of the United States, and her uncle is the founder of the Whitney Museum, so she is also known as "The Last Lady of the United States".
Unfortunately, although she is a famous woman with thousands of gold, her life has been full of twists and turns.
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Gloria's founder, Cornelius Vanderbilt, was the richest man in the United States until his death in 1877.
His son William inherited the family business and became the richest man in the United States for a lifetime.
Until the middle of the last century, the Vanderbilt family was the richest family in the United States.
The so-called East Coast "old money", the prototype of those families in "Gossip Girl", is a family like Gloria.
In Gloria's father's generation, the Vanderbilt family, although slightly declining compared to before, may still be able to spend the day with Gloria's parents.
The parents' lives were extravagant and chaotic, and naturally they neglected their children, so that Gloria's childhood was bumpy and gray, and she almost did not get much love in this original family.
● Gloria and her parents at an early age
Words and good habits from her parents seemed to never exist in Gloria.
For the couple, the child only needs to be handed over to the nanny, and their own pleasure time is more important.
Later Gloria recalled bitterly:
"They went on holiday in Europe shortly after I was born, and after 10 months, they felt that it was a waste of time to be with me."
● Gloria's childhood
However, all the gifts of fate have already been secretly marked with prices.
Gloria's father, who was physically depleted by excessive drinking, died young when she was 15 months old.
Mother Morgan's profligacy and indulgence did not converge once, but intensified.
Morgan Squandered the high trust fund left by her husband and took her daughter to Paris, where she began a freer and more drunken life.
Regarding the loss of her father in childhood, Gloria said: "I always hoped that one day, a bottle floated over, and there was a letter written to me by my father, on which he said I was beautiful, he loved me, but the bottle never came. ”
Due to the problem of his mother's life style, his aunt could not bear it, and in a fit of anger, he took Morgan to court and asked for custody of his niece.
For a time, the custody dispute of the giants naturally made the media rush to report, no matter where they went, Mrs. Gloria's every move would be infinitely magnified.
It looks bright and beautiful in the spotlight, but her unbearable and helplessness want to cover up.
Hence the title of "Poor Rich Little Girl".
● Gloria on her way to the courtroom
Eventually, the aunt won custody of the 9-year-old Gloria.
Her aunt not only taught her to study art, but also held a painting exhibition for her, treating her like her own daughter.
However, the harshness of her aunt has made the young Gloria live a very depressed life, and the two have always been estranged.
At her aunt's side, Gloria did not feel the warmth of family affection.
At that time, she even felt that she did not get a trace of warm love from her aunt, but it was undeniable that her aunt gradually cultivated her into a real celebrity.
Having been trying to please her aunt, she became more and more reticent, and in this environment, she began to seek a transformation in her life.
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Gloria began modeling for magazines at the age of 15 and appeared in the famous fashion magazine Bazaar.
As an adult, she also focused on modeling, laying the foundation for her later career in the fashion industry.
Although Gloria came from a top tycoon, she did not become a princess of the stars.
But because she had been too bitter, she was too eager to find warmth in love.
Unable to withstand the pressure of her aunt, she married at the age of 17, and the man she chose was Sko, a Hollywood agent who was 15 years older than her at the time.
Gloria and her first husband
In the eyes of many people, the combination of the two is a talented woman, but the good times are not long, and Sko, who is from a mixed background, began to commit domestic violence.
During that time, Gloria's body was often covered with scars, and eventually, because of the torture, the marriage ended in a hurry at the age of 21.
At the time of the divorce, the ex-husband took millions of dollars in breakup fees.
It wasn't long before Gloria walked into the "grave" of marriage again, and her second husband was the nationally renowned Polish-American conductor Leopold.
However, there is a huge age difference between the two. Gloria was only 21 years old, and Leopold was already 62 years old.
This undoubtedly escaped the crusade of the world and public opinion, and Lolia's mother broke off the mother-daughter relationship with her.
Unexpectedly, the love that began vigorously was finally defeated by reality.
Due to Leopold's near-morbid possessiveness, the marriage ended after ten years.
Gloria's path to love seems to have been under a spell, and after experiencing two failed marriages, the third marriage did not end well.
Gloria and her third husband
In the year after divorcing her third husband, Gloria met the love of her life, the playwright Wyatt, who was also her fourth husband.
Gloria and her fourth husband
This time, Gloria was able to truly find happiness, and after marriage, they had two sons, the eldest son Carter and the second son Anderson Cooper.
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The people around me also sighed, "That poor rich family has finally found his own happiness." ”
But fate once again played a joke on her.
In the 16th year of their marriage, her husband died of a sudden illness, and Gloria lost her beloved forever.
Because it was too sudden, Gloria was devastated and depressed.
While Gloria was in pain, her assistant conspired with a lawyer to take away all of her property.
However, another huge blow hit Gloria hard – her eldest son, Carter, committed suicide by jumping off a building at the age of 23.
Gloria and her two sons
It became a permanent pain in Gloria's heart, and she cried in bed for three weeks and never cried again, because the tears had dried up.
She had longed for love all her life, pursued love, and in the end, all love was shattered.
After all the great changes, Gloria is exhausted, but fortunately, no matter what kind of adversity she is in, looking back on her life, she seems to have never given up the love of life. This also stems from the fact that her whole life is not willing to be ordinary.
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With a good face and a graceful posture, 15-year-old Gloria has become a model.
But her achievements in the fashion industry go far beyond that.
In the 1970s, she founded her own fashion brand, Gloria Vanderbilt, which, in addition to ready-to-wear, perfumes and household items, jeans for modern wardrobes were initially led by Gloria.
She is an active promoter of the "high-end of jeans", making jeans gradually become a fashion item from the original working-class clothing.
Gloria is often voted the best dressed woman in the world, and she has also been described as "the new woman of the times" who has kept pace with the times.
She collaborated with designer Murjani on her eponymous denim collection, which was a huge success, and since then she has been praised as the "godmother of slim jeans".
In the fashion world, her bold innovations paved the way for many designers to come.
After that, she also tried to do a TV show called "Look at the East", and she became the first American journalist to connect East and West as a non-journalism major.
Gloria, who is beautiful and temperamental, has also been trying to act, from the original Broadway drama, to later TV series and variety shows, and even appeared on the Oprah show.
Gloria is also a contributor to the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Elle, and other magazines.
After experiencing the entanglement of the family and being in such an era, Gloria did not let the decline continue, but turned against the wind and proved the infinite value she could create.
In addition, she insisted on painting and creating, and conducted charity auctions, and at the age of 90, she also opened her own Instagram account, with more than 200,000 fans.
All kinds of jobs, as long as she was interested, she tried them all, and did not give up. Even if it fails, it is never discouraged.
For her, age is not an issue, and she has not lost her vitality with the passage of time.
In the high-end apartment in New York, she decorated it like a fairy tale world, full of mood.
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After experiencing the unsmooths of love and the ups and downs of her career, her life no longer needs more fame and fortune to prove her magnificent life.
Maybe all that's left is to look back at the past and shake hands with the past.
Gloria said that living for so many years is like playing a Russian matryoshka doll, and every time you open the outer one, you will find a smaller one inside, up to the smallest one - yourself.
In the early morning of June 17, 2019, Gloria passed away at the age of 95.
The youngest son, Cooper, issued a moving statement:
"Gloria was an amazing woman, she loved life and lived her life her way, she was a painter, writer and designer, but she was an outstanding mother, wife and friend.")
● Gloria and her youngest son Cooper
In her long life of more than 90 years, it is not a legend.
Some people believe that life is destined to be a tragedy, and after falling apart, it is in a state of collapse.
But Gloria was different, she made love a lifelong belief.
As Gloria said on her 95th birthday:
"I believe that you can only really start living if you accept in your heart that life is a tragedy. Ah, I have lived many lifetimes in my life, a lot of work and love, and I can't count them. "Text/Shag