Dorian Leigh
| Dorian Leigh | |
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| Born |
Dorian Elizabeth Leigh Parker April 23, 1917 San Antonio, Texas |
| Died | July 7, 2008 (aged 91) Falls Church, Virginia |
| Occupation | Model |
| Spouse(s) |
Marshall Hawkins Roger W. Mehle Alfonso de Portago Serge Bordat Iddo Ben-Gurion |
Marshall Hawkins
(1937 – mid-1940s; one son, one daughter)
Roger W. Mehle
(August 1948 – November 1954; one daughter),
Alfonso de Portago
(Mexico, 1954 – bigamously; one son)
Serge Bordat
(1958 – c. 1960, divorced; one daughter during marriage)
Iddo Ben-Gurion
Dorian Leigh (April 23, 1917 – July 7, 2008), born Dorian Elizabeth Leigh Parker, was an American model and one of the earliest modelling icons of the fashion industry. She is considered one of the first supermodels, and was well known in the United States and Europe.
Dorian Leigh Parker was born in San Antonio, Texas, to George and Elizabeth Parker. Her parents married when they were around 17 or 18 years old and Elizabeth promptly gave birth to three daughters in quick succession: Dorian (1917–2008), Florian (Cissie) (1918–2010), and Georgiabell (1919–1988). Thirteen years after the birth of her last daughter, Elizabeth believed she was going through menopause and was shocked to discover that she was pregnant. She gave birth to her fourth daughter, Cecilia (1932–2003), who became known as model and actress Suzy Parker). The family moved to Jackson Heights, Queens soon after Dorian's birth and later to Metuchen, New Jersey. There, George Parker invented a new form of etching acid, production of which gave him enough income to retire.
Dorian graduated from Newton High School in Queens, New York, in 1935 and enrolled at Randolph-Macon Women's College in Lynchburg, Virginia. In her autobiography, Dorian claimed that she was born in 1920, and graduated from high school early, at the age of 15 in 1935, because she loved learning, and she took many classes at once since the school was supposedly overcrowded. This was not true. She also wrote that she was a 17-year-old college sophomore when she first married, when in fact, she was 20. At college, she met her first husband, Marshall Powell Hawkins, whom she married on a whim in North Carolina in 1937. They had two children: Thomas Lofton ("TL") Hawkins (1939-October 5, 2014) and Marsha Hawkins (1940). The couple separated in the 1940s.
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