article_snippet.sent: As a 19-year-old telephone operator, Mary Doyle Keefe posed for the famous painting that would become the cover of the Saturday Evening Post on May 29, 1943.
article_snippet.sent: Although her was petite, Mary Doyle Keefe was transformed into the iconic -- and burly -- embodiment of the character by Norman Rockwell's.
article_snippet.sent: Other than the red hair and my face, Norman Rockwell embellished Rosie's body," Mary Doyle Keefe said in a 2012 interview with the Hartford Courant.
article_snippet.sent: I was much smaller than that and did not know how he was going to make me look like that until I saw the finished painting.
article_snippet.sent: Mary Doyle Keefe pocketed $10 for the two mornings of modeling work Mary Doyle Keefe did in Arlington, Vermont.
article_snippet.sent: Norman Rockwell lived in neighboring West Arlington at the time.
article_snippet.sent: Still, many folks on social media paid tribute to Mary Doyle Keefe using the image.
highlights_snippet.sent: Mary Doyle Keefe was a 19-year-old telephone operator at the time .