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69.181.23.220 ( talk) 00:10, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
This lead for this article is really long, longer than those of most other film stars and should probably be reduced by between 5 and 10 lines. User:Informed analysis ( talk | contribs) 14:02, 4 October 2019
Should her entry mention that her husband, Mike Todd, had her sterilized?
The IMDb entry of her daughter, Liza Todd, mentions this:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0123654/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
As does an Express UK article (spelled sterilised):
https://www.express.co.uk/expressyourself/237051/How-Elizabeth-Taylor-lived-life-to-the-full
The above article also states that her sterilization led her to adopt her fourth child, Maria.
Neither article mentions if she was given any say in the matter, and husbands back then could unilaterally decide things like this, so she may have been unwillingly sterilized.
It may also be worth noting that hysterectomies have been linked to higher rates of heart disease, which was the cause of Liz Taylor's death, and also back pain (which afflicted Liz Taylor):
https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/hysterectomy-linked-to-increase-in-heart-disease
https://www.hersfoundation.org/2011/03/elizabeth-taylor-was-also-one-in-three-women/ (note that this is a third source mentioning her sterilization)
This page states that her hysterectomy was a decade after Liza Todd's birth -- well after Mike Todd was dead, and also after the adoption of her fourth child, Maria -- but she may have been sterilized first by some method other than hysterectomy at the direction of Mike Todd, then received the hysterectomy a decade later:
https://www.khou.com/article/entertainment/elizabeth-taylor-spent-a-life-in-and-out-of-hospitals/285-320708562 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:A601:ACA4:1100:D98F:94DB:6FFD:909 ( talk) 05:50, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
Should Casa Kimberly be linked or mentioned anywhere in the article? --- Another Believer ( Talk) 17:27, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
This might have come up before, but is there a reason why Taylor's reported hypertrichosis hasn't been mentioned in the section about her early life? - Jack Sebastian ( talk) 04:17, 11 May 2023 (UTC)