Betty White is often fondly remembered as one of TV's most iconic figures, thanks especially to the classic sitcom Golden Girls , playing Rose Nylund, or as the "happy homemaker" Sue Nivens in The Mary Tyler Moore Show , or even the sarcastic but lovable matriarch Elka Ostrovsky in Hot in Cleveland . But off-screen, the "First Lady of Game Shows" was fiercely independent and career-driven, and while she thrived in both her personal and professional life, motherhood never factored into it.

The actress, who passed away in December 2021 less than three weeks away from her 100th birthday, was married three times. Her first marriage was in 1945 to Air Force P-38 pilot Dick Barker, but it lasted less than a year. In fact, in her 1995 autobiography Here We Go Again , she mentioned the

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