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| The two created a powerful image of the fifties woman that Dovima strove to become in her own life. She said, "I began to have the idea that I was a photograph...a plastic image. I could only be myself behind the camera." Indeed, she was spotted at a beach at the time in full Richard Avedon make-up, which became more exaggerated as the years progressed. Dovima told Interview magazine in 1974, "I would just never appear in public without looking like Dovima, who was to me an image of myself." Dorian Leigh said, "She didn't understand she could be someone without it. She never really felt in control of what happened to her."
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| Dovima loved comic books, a trait she shared with the character Marion she portrayed in Funny Face. There is a story concerning a location shoot she did with Avedon in Egypt. After arriving, someone asked her what she thought of Africa. To which she replied, "Africa? Who said anything about Africa? This is Egypt." When they explained that Egypt was in Africa, Dovima replied, "I should have charged double rate!" On the same shoot, she brought along a large trunk that Avedon assumed was filled with clothes. When he asked Dovima about the trunk, she told him they were her books. He felt he couldn't separate the girl from her books so they lugged them across the desert only to find out they were her comic books. | 
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| Dovima and Jack Golden divorced in the late fifties and she married Alan Murray. She let him handle all of their finances as Jack Golden had. They had a daughter, Alison. Alan Murray is remembered as a man with boundless anger. In Vanity Fair, Mimi Swartz wrote, "That at times her husband beat her so severely that she could not show up for work did not, at first, cut into her bookings." Carmen Dell'Orefice commented on Dovima's love life, "Sadly she could only be with men who beat her. I'd find her on my doorstep black and blue, and I'd take her in and she'd live with me." In 1960 she moved with Alison to Los Angeles to pursue acting work. Murray told the FBI that Dovima had kidnapped their daughter. The two divorced and she lost custody of Alison. Dovima never saw her again.
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