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Slim Aarons’ Christmas Swim: Story Behind the Tree

  • Dec 25, 2023
  • 3 min read

Slim Aarons’ Christmas Swim is an iconic mid-century portrait that has grown even more popular in recent years, thank to social media.


Woman in pool with Christmas tree
Christmas Swim by Slim Aarons (Getty Images)

In a 2020 Vogue interview with the photographer’s daughter Mary Aarons, she detailed the 1954 shoot and its subject, her mother Rita Aarons.


But the story behind the tree and the Hollywood home’s location has been a mystery ... until now.

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A mid-century enthusiast, Kathleen was born about 50 years too late. Fortunately, as a history buff she gets to live in the past. 

 

The Hollywood resident is a published author who has written about influential figures such as John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Barack Obama, Anne Frank, Taylor Swift, and dozens more.

 

Over the past two decades, she's also worked as a celebrity news editor in New York City as well as for Yahoo!, Ryan Seacrest Productions, and a reality TV family who shall remain nameless. 

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