This rumor began early the actress's career, back when her name was still Norma Jean. A photographer named Joseph Jasgur took some test shots of the young starlet on a beach in 1946. Over 40 years later, Jasgur was developing the photos and noticed something strange - it looked like Norma Jean had six toes on her left foot. It has bandied about that Monroe may have had the toe surgically removed, but there is no evidence to substantiate this claim.

But Marilyn would not have had the money to afford such a procedure early in her career, and there is no record of such a surgery or any period in which the star walked with a limp incurred by the loss of a toe. Other photographs from the Jasgur shoot and other pictures later in her career show completely normal, five-toed feet.