Above all, she was her own creation. Even her name was invented. She grew up as Rose Louise Hovik. When asked if she ever explained why she chose the name "Gypsy," her son, Erik Lee Preminger, said, ...
Gypsy Rose Lee never rushed anything, certainly not a strip tease, and apparently not even her artistic rediscovery. “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly… very slowly,” Lee had once ...