Pining for Margaux Hemingway
 Margot Louise "Margaux" Hemingway February 16, 1954 – July 1, 1996 |
Margot Louise "Margaux" Hemingway did fashion modeling and acting in the United State. She was a very successful supermodel in the early years of my coming of age and as such was something always beyond my grasp and I realized this at that time.
I cared not for the covers of Cosmopolitan, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, and TIME opting instead for those sound bytes and photographs and magazine paragraphs which gave glimpses into Margaux the person ...
But all I could ever really do is covet and nothing else. So I did nothing but have interest.
You do what you must do in life based on your circumstances. Admiration from afar not withstanding we live within those boundaries set for us by either others or ourselves.
She was the granddaughter of writer Ernest Hemingway and this may have been some of that allure I felt for her. The later years in her life were marked with the addiction and depression which sometimes accompanies money and fame; not to mention ancestral predecessors.
She suffered a level of publicity which ultimately drove her to take her own life ... either intentionally or via attempting escape with those drugs which she could obtain with relative ease.
She passed on July 1, 1996 and I mourned her loss for the world and me personally even though I was nothing in that mix which was her life. We were both in our early 40s.