Marie Osmond was born on October 13, 1959, to Olive and George Osmond; the only daughter in the family. The Osmonds lived in Utah, and were of the Mormon faith. All through her childhood her brothers followed a musical career in which Marie was rarely involved until the early 1960s. She appeared on the Andy Williams’s show with her brothers for one appearance where she sat on Williams’s knee and entertained the nation with her cute looks.
Once The Osmonds had achieved a number of hits in the early 1960s, Donny Osmond began pursuing a solo career as well as appearing with his brothers. Donny’s solo hits included "Puppy Love" and "Go Away Little Girl."
In 1973 the Osmond’s management also convinced Marie to enter the music business in a solo capacity. She released her first record, not in the pop genre but in country music genre. Paper Roses became a #1 hit in that year.
In 1974 Marie shared two pop music hits with her brother Donny when they duetted together on "I’m Leaving it All Up to You" and "Morning Side of the Mountain."
From 1976 to 1979 Donny and Marie hosted their own self titled television show when they became synonymous with the opening song, "I’m a Little Bit Country, I’m a Little Bit Rock n’ Roll," the first line being sung by Marie and the next line sung by Donny.
In the 1980s Marie all but disappeared from the music industry and turned more to acting. She was offered the role of Sandy in Grease, starring John Travolta and Stockard Channing, but turned it down on religious grounds and the part went to Olivia Newton John instead.
In the late 1980s Marie returned to music once again and signed a contract with Curb Records and had an instant success with a duet she performed with Dan Seals called "Meet Me In Montana" which became a #1 hit in the country music charts in 1985.
Marie’s first marriage was to Stephen Craig but the marriage did not survive very long and the couple were divorced in 1985. They had one son together.
In the 1995 TV movie called The True Story of the Osmond Family Marie played her own mother, Olive, and went on to have huge success with her performances on Broadway in The Sound of Music and The King and I. Her youngest brother, Jimmy Osmond, was the producer of Inside the Osmonds, which was a true account of the rise and fall of the Osmonds.
In the 1990s Marie began her own business, Marie Osmond Fine Porcelain Collector Dolls, which are regularly sold on the shopping channel, QVC. In 1986 Marie married for the second time, this time to Brian Blosil, a member of the Church of Latter-day Saints. The couple has eight children, five of whom are adopted by the couple. But once again the marriage was not to last and in March 2007, after more than twenty years together, Marie announced that she was seeking a divorce from Blosil. Marie maintained that the separation was amicable and that they still remain friends.
It has been widely publicized that Marie suffered severe post partum depression and that she had attempted to commit suicide, but Marie has denied these rumours, saying that she accidentally took too much of one of her medications. While being interviewed on the Larry King Live show and discussing her life with The Osmonds and life on the road she said, "I've always defined a bed as any surface that would allow me to put my head down, I've curled up on an instrument case, across a luggage rack of a Greyhound bus, and next to a backstage costume rack with my head propped against a hoop skirt."
Recently, Marie has become an outspoken activist on the perils of children having access to internet sites where sexual deviants prey on children’s innocence, after discovering her own daughters being caught up in the practice on their computers.
YUDDY
