Ann Turner Cook, whose angelic baby face was known around the world as the original Gerber baby, has died. He was 95 years old.
Gerber announced Cook’s death in an Instagram post on Friday.
“Many years before she became a mother, teacher and writer extraordinaire, her smile and expressive curiosity won hearts everywhere and she will continue to live as a symbol for all children,” the company said in a statement.
Cook was 5 months old when a neighbor, artist Dorothy Hope Smith, painted a sketch of her charcoal, which was then entered into a competition Gerber organized for the National Baby Food Marketing Campaign.
The image was so successful that it became the company’s trademark in 1931 and has been used on all packaging and advertising since then.
For decades, however, the baby’s identity was kept a secret, sparking rumors about who she was, including Humphrey Bogart and Elizabeth Taylor.
In the late 1970s, it turned out that it was Cook who grew up teaching English in Tampa, Florida, and later as a mystery novelist.
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Source: Hollywood Reporter
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