Meet 7 Unsung Women Who Sacrificed Everything to Support Their Husband's Soaring Careers

Barcza Pardo Mercedes. At the age of 13, Gabriel Garcia Marquez encountered his future spouse on the dance floor and she promptly proposed marriage to him. She had to finish her education before she could consent. It took 13 years for them to be able to marry. While Gaby was writing "One Hundred Years of Solitude," Mercedes was by his side. The work was finished eighteen months later, but even then, the author lacked the funds to send it to an editor. Then Mercedes sold her mixer and hair dryer, the last two items she owned. Her husband's book quickly gained him enormous profits, international acclaim, and the Nobel Prize.

Ono Yoko. Many Beatles fans frequently held her responsible for the band's dissolution, but the issues existed long before Yoko Ono and John Lennon met. Yoko introduced the musician to a creative environment that included avant-garde paintings, literature, and lavish concerts. She made Lennon's solo album possible, and the record's title track, "Imagine," has become a hippy classic around the globe. John never got tired of saying that Yoko and he had a single soul.