Jayne Mansfield was more than a blonde bombshell—she was a mother, a trailblazer, and a woman shaped by tragedy and fame. In My Mom Jayne, premiering June 27 on Max, Mariska Hargitay opens up like never before in this emotional documentary that reclaims her mother’s story from the tabloids. Blending rare footage, intimate interviews, and raw personal reflection, Hargitay shines a new light on the icon she never truly got to know.
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00:00i've spent my whole life distancing myself from my mother jane mansfield the sex symbol
00:09jane mansfield has lead from total obscurity to the most photographed woman in show business
00:16how do you account for your meteoric rise to fame i use my pin-up type publicity to get my foot in
00:24door her career made me want to do it differently but i want to understand her now i was three years
00:32old when my mom died and i don't have any memories of her and then my dad died in 2006
00:40i've never talked to my siblings about their experiences i don't know how the hell you got me
00:47to do this there we are that's how my grandmother used to kiss it i know you're not a fan of talking
00:52about this stuff anything you ask you know i'm there for you
00:56you have all these memories and i'm envious of that in the beginning i had her to myself
01:04she'd take me everywhere when you're a kid you don't know anything else this is life talk to me
01:09about the persona it was actually a character this is a kind of an act you do isn't it the public pays
01:15to see me a certain way and they get their money's worth
01:18i looked the other way because i knew she was really smart at home she was just janky i've heard
01:28things that are really ugly i don't know that i want to know those ugly things something that i've
01:35also realized keeping a secret doesn't honor anyone she always had me she knew that but seems like
01:43at times it wasn't enough i pulled out this picture couldn't believe what i was seeing
01:48it was like the floor fell out from underneath me
01:51why didn't he tell me
01:55reclaiming our family story that is what this is about for me
02:06because she's a part of me i want to know her as jane my mom jane