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Claim: Porn star Marilyn Chambers was once pictured on the Ivory Snow box.
Origins: It seems everyone has heard the whisper that the cute little baby on the Ivory Snow box grew up to be porn star Marilyn Chambers. It's true Chambers does 
appear on the box, but not as the baby — she was the young mother holding the infant.
Chambers was born on The irony that everyone relishes is that only a couple of years later the girl on the Ivory Snow box turned her hand (and other assorted body parts) to the making of porn films. She became an instant hit with her appearance in the 1972 porn classic Behind the Green Door, a film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival to a standing ovation. Earlier in her fledgling career, she'd had a small part as Robert Klein's girlfriend in the 1970 film The Owl and the Pussycat and had also appeared in a 1971's Together. But from Behind the Green Door on, most of her onscreen work was in the adult film industry. Though a young lady in a dirty business, Chambers proved early on she had a good head on her shoulders: she was smart enough to negotiate a contract that gave her 10% of the gross receipts for her films. (This was back in the pre-VCR days, of course, when watching a It's interesting to note how this tidbit about Marilyn Chambers and the Ivory Snow box is processed by those who come across it. Invariably, those who remember Chambers being in the shot always cast her as the baby. It's that old "innocence transformed into evil" motif (And to clear up another long-standing rumor, no, that baby on the Ivory Snow box isn't actress Brooke Shields. Brooke did appear in some Ivory Snow advertisements as an infant, but her picture was never used on the box.) Barbara "99 44/100% pure" Mikkelson Sightings: In his 1988 humor book "Don't Bend Over in the Garden, Granny, You Know Them Taters Got Eyes," in his description of an incident where he and two friends venture off to see the porn classic Behind the Green Door, Lewis Grizzard refers to its star as "...who used to be on the cover of a box of soap when she was a baby, but that was a long time ago and Marilyn has changed a lot since back then." Last updated: 12 July 2007 Urban Legends Reference Pages © 1995-2008 by snopes.com. This material may not be reproduced without permission. snopes and the snopes.com logo are registered service marks of snopes.com.  Sources:
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