Beyonce Channels Marilyn Monroe for Out Magazine & Says Women Should Own Their Sexuality

Photo Credit: Beyonce/Tumblr
Photo Credit: Beyonce/Tumblr

By: Amanda Anderson-Niles

Beyonce may be done with her Mrs. Carter World Tour, but she’s still managing to nab magazine covers during her downtime.

The Queen Bey covers the new issue of Out Magazine, and she channels fame icon Marilyn Monroe with an interesting choice of a blonde wig. We’re thinking it makes sense that she went for the Marilyn Monroe look since she is pushing a sexier image with a sexy new album to boot. Check out the cover below:

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The issue is all about power, so it’s fitting that the singer talked about how important it is for women to find their power in owning their sexuality in the interview. Beyonce says:

“I’d like to believe that my music opened up that conversation. There is unbelievable power in ownership, and women should own their sexuality. There is a double standard when it comes to sexuality that still persists. Men are free and women are not. That is crazy. The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman, a mother, an artist, and a feminist—whatever you want to be—and still be a sexual being. It’s not mutually exclusive.”

14 comments

  1. Now I love me some Bey and she looks gorgeous, but I am annoyed with black women putting Marilyn Monroe on some ridiculous pedestal when we had women like Dorothy Dandridge to represent us around the same time Marlilyn was a star. I don’t get it. Why do we keep praising Marilyn? Why not Dorothy?

  2. I love her quote, but I’m not a Marilyn Monroe enthusiast. Not in the least bit. She looks pretty though.

  3. I really can’t wait for Beyonce to go back to the dark hair. She’s absolutely stunning with darker hair. 🙂

  4. Now Bey and Rih are my girls, but I do not like to see them channeling no damn Marilyn Monroe. They look cheap in those blonde wigs and I’m not feeling it. They should really embrace fierce black women from the day like Dorothy Dandridge and Grace Jones. Now they were some bad chicks!

  5. Why do people praise Marilyn so much? She was a known whore during her time in the spotlight. She got passed around the industry very similar to how Kim Kardashian is passed around. The same people who love them some Marilyn will tear down Kim in the next breath. I don’t get it. :-/

  6. “I’d like to believe that my music opened up that conversation. There is unbelievable power in ownership, and women should own their sexuality. There is a double standard when it comes to sexuality that still persists. Men are free and women are not. That is crazy. The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman, a mother, an artist, and a feminist—whatever you want to be—and still be a sexual being. It’s not mutually exclusive.” >> Well said.

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