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"Not Marilyn Monroe" is a confrontation with the iconography of beauty and identity. In this portrait, I challenge the viewer to examine the line between homage and erasure, authenticity and imitation. The subject embodies the glamour of a bygone era—platinum curls, bold lips, and an unapologetic gaze—yet she is no one’s myth. This image plays with the cultural ghost of Marilyn Monroe, not to resurrect her, but to question how femininity is packaged, repeated, and consumed. The black-and-white palette echoes vintage photography, while the subject’s powerful posture and direct eye contact reject passivity. She is not a symbol. She is not Marilyn. She is herself, occupying a space that defies the need to conform to historical ideals. Through "Not Marilyn Monroe", I explore the tension between nostalgia and individuality, between the seen and the self. This work is an invitation to unlearn what we’ve been told beauty should look like, and to see—instead—what it is when it asserts its own truth.