'I looked into these blue eyes and my knees started knocking,' reports MacGraw adding: 'I became obsessed'. 'She had the nicest ass I've ever seen on a woman,' was McQueen's experienced appraisal. They began a tempestuous affair. But she admits: 'Steve's idea of hot was not me.He liked blonde bimbos and they were always around. He'd explode if I looked at another man but he wandered... 'One night me made noisy, all-night love to two women at once so that I could hear. Then he sauntered out onto his front step and casually asked if I wanted to come and make him breakfast.I did. 'I was obsessed by him. I had fallen head over heels in love with him. There was a curious purity about Steve that was very powerful. She left Evans and their luxury surroundings in the Hollywood Hills for McQueen and Malibu Beach . There they lived as a family with his son Chad ( by Neile McQueen) and her son Joshua (by Evans). 'Steve was this very original, principled guy who didn't seem to be part of the system and I loved that. 'Later I learned that his father had left home when he was a baby and when he was fourteen his mother sent him off to a school for delinquent children. After that he never trusted women. 'Before we were married he made me sign a prenuptial agreement saying I would never ask for anything in the event of a divorce (she didn't). He also made it clear he didn't want a working wife. 'I was too obsessed with him, too smitten to argue. I couldn't even go to art class because Steve expected his "old lady" to be there every night with dinner on the table.I played cook and cleaning lady and simple woman to the hilt. He did his thing -- he was constantly drinking beer and smoking grass. 'When I was married to Steve I was in analysis all the time. Because what else was I doing? I was driving the children to school, having analysis, having an exercise class, coming home and cooking dinner. Not exactly a satisfying way of life. Nobody asked me to do it. That's the incredible thing.Because of him I just volunteered. I did what many women do -- acted out of fear that somehow this great love and passion would be denied if I didn't fit the role of what I thought was expected of me.' She was a college educated blueblood. He was a former fairground barker, seaman, lumberjack, Texas brothel runner, bartender and when they met making his living as one of the world's most popular movie stars. 'He was an honest human being. Many people thought he was cynical but he had a "nose" for people. Steve chose to be reclusive because the world is full of freaks. In those days there could have been too many people stoned out of their minds asking Steve McQueen if he can get them a job working on his motorcycle.
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