The Bridesmaid's Daughter by Nyna Giles5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She knew that her mother had been a model after arriving in 1950s New York, staying at the Barbizon Hotel, where she'd met the young Grace Kelly, and that the two had become fast friends. Now Nyna was forced to confront an agonizing realization: she barely knew the woman on the magazine in front of her. ![]() The doctors couldn't tell her what was wrong, but as Nyna grew up, her mother, who'd always seemed fragile, became more and more distant. Too ill, she was told, to go to school like other children, she spent every waking moment at her mother's side at their isolated Long Island estate or on trips into the city to see the ballet. Nyna's childhood had been spent in doctor's offices. Nyna was stunned, afraid that someone would know the woman on that cover, Carolyn Scott, was her mother. Nyna Giles was picking up groceries at the supermarket one day when she looked down and saw a woman on the cover of a tabloid beneath the headline: 'Former Bridesmaid of Princess Grace Lives in Homeless Shelter'. ![]() A daughter's poignant search to understand her mother, Carolyn Scott - once a bridesmaid to Princess Grace and a world-renowned Ford model - who spent her final years in a homeless shelter. ![]()
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