Despite more than 20 years of her death, Audrey Hepburn remains a seductive icon, which Andy Warhol once immortalized in her Pop Art paintings, her face and silhouette represent a model of eternal elegance and distinction that, even today, new generations want to imitate. , despite the risks. And one of the feelings that has always conveyed the classic image of Audrey Hepburn sneaking through Tiffany’s windows is that beauty is associated with thinness.
This fact is very close to the reality in which we live today, the eating problems of the actress remained for a long time under the pressure of silence, for many there was only the beautiful face represented by a fragile beauty, which is fashion. trying to imitate; and few people can see the woman who has become too big to give her best to others.
- The traumas suffered in childhood are the shadows that accompany us in maturity.
- Suffering never disappears forever; this remains a challenge to overcome.
- Audrey Hepburn’s childhood was marked by World War II.
- Although linked to the Dutch nobility.
- Its distinguished position changed dramatically on the day half a million German soldiers invaded Holland; then resources and food began to run low.
- Hunger and malnutrition not only marked his childhood.
- But also marked his adolescence; his eyes had to see a part of his family murdered.
- Like his brother.
- Who was taken to a German forced labor camp and sick.
- So he had to make a living in the only way he could: dance; helping the Dutch resistance to Nazism.
At the end of the war, Audrey Hepburn suffered from malnutrition, anemia, asthma, lung problems and depression that took years to overcome. According to her, one of the best memories of that time, and one that will mark her all her life, was the humanitarian arrival of the United Nations bringing blankets, food, medicine and clothing?Kindness always seemed to exist in the world and that was a source of hope.
“I once heard the following phrase: happiness is to have health and bad memory. I would have liked to make it up, because she’s absolutely right.
Triumphs have come: movies like, Holidays in Rome?Did they give him the power to establish a certain degree of influence and fame, a situation in which you have to know how to maintain balance.
Audrey Hepburn was an intelligent and very sensitive woman, who had always understood her roles well; He conveyed very well the emotion to captivate the viewer and, in his own words, always needed affection and understanding, feelings that he could not find in his marriage to Mel Ferrer; Was sadness your most common companion, a shadow that turned to despair the day you suffered your first child’s miscarriage when he fell off a horse during a recording.
Depression and guilt returned to his life with the same intensity as in the past. The depression was aggravated by sometimes irrational personal demand. He knew that part of his success was based on his elegant and delicate physique, that’s when he said in an interview: “If in the past I could live without eating, now I can do it too. Do I feel compelled to control food intake?”?. Anorexia nervosa was a cruel companion, with whom Audrey Hepburn lived all her life.
“As you get older, you’ll find that you have two hands— one to help you and the other to help others. A. Hepburn
The years of tragedy and loss in the war were never erased from Audrey Hepburn’s mind, nor was her need to find love completely satisfied: two broken marriages and several disappointments were often the knife that cut off her sleepless nights; it is from this that the desire to help grows, to give affection and affection to those in need.
It was then that in 1988, cinema practically forgot his life, when he devoted the emergency fund for children to UNICEF for six months and a year. The real secret of happiness, for her, was never her successful acting career or admiration. he had from the public, but rather his desire to receive affection and the need to offer affection to others. Sometimes the door to satisfaction is not at its highest; it’s just in ourselves.
Source: “Audrey Hepburn, an intimate portrait. ” (Diana Maychick, 1994)