Audrey Hepburn – the scandalous side no one knew

Audrey Hepburn – the scandalous side no one knew 

I’m truly truly grateful and terribly happy. Hey friend, welcome to my channel, Karina Lude, where we deep dive and break down the most iconic stars in history. If you’re not yet subscribed, please be sure to do so and turn your notifications on so you never miss an upload. Now, let’s get into this video. Today, we are talking about the iconic Audrey Heburn.

>> How do I look? >> Very good. I must say I’m amazed. >> He was a perfect example of class, style, and taste both on and off the screen. She was one of the most famous fashion icons of the 20th century. She was known for her iconic looks. She was the inspiration for the French designer Givven.

 Her look from Breakfast at Tiffany’s, which included a little black dress, big sunglasses, and updo and pearls, is still a classic today. Woman of her day found her more relatable than the likes of the curvier Liz Taylor and Grace Kelly. With her short hairstyle, thick eyebrows, slim body, and gam looks.

 She presented a look which young women found easier to emulate than those of more sensual film stars. She had more of a girl next door. Despite being admired for her beauty, she never considered herself attractive. stating in a 1959 interview that you can even say that I hated myself at certain periods. I was too fat or maybe too tall or maybe just plain too ugly.

 I couldn’t conquer these feelings by acting indecisive. I found the only way to get the better of them was by adopting a forceful concentrated drive. End quote. And one day she said to me, “But you see, I’m all fake. My eyes are small and my face is square and I fix it all up by wearing makeup.” She was happiest not wearing makeup and at home with the dogs and the flowers and giggling away or going to the movies not being a movie star at all.

>> She didn’t think she was particularly beautiful or striking. She did feel that she was awkward and too thin and maybe not as appealing as other movie stars. >> The camera loved her. There was no way that you could photograph her badly. She just glowed. >> In 1989, she stated that my look is attainable.

 Women can look like Audrey Heburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large glasses, and the little sleeveless dresses.” End quote. Alongside model Twiggy, Heburn has been cited as one of the key public figures who made being very slim fashionable. In her private life, Heburn preferred to wear casual and comfortable clothes, contrary to the hood couture she wore on screen and at public events.

 Now, as far as her favorite things, Audrey spoke five different languages: French, Dutch, Spanish, English, and Italian. Cyan was Audrey’s favorite color according to her son Luca Dy and his book Audrey at Home: Memories of My Mother’s Kitchen. Heard son Luca Dy revealed the importance she placed on drinking water and staying hydrated by saying she was really about drinking a lot of water and eating a lot of vegetables.

 According to her son also, she loved Italian food and pasta. She ate a lot of grains, not a lot of meat, and a little bit of everything. For breakfast, she would eat toast and jam for lunch, vegan or pasta. Then for dinner, often soup with meat and veggies. After dinner, Heburn would indulge in a few pieces of chocolate and often a little bit of scotch as well.

She also loved to walk a lot and would walk often in nature and scenic routes. Audrey loved nature, so before she passed away, she filmed a documentary called Audrey Heburn’s Gardens of the World. The series even won an Emmy. Heburn said that she used a lot of moisturizers and oils because she had dry skin.

 As well as those two skin savers, she also applied yogurt to her face, leaving it for half an hour before washing it off. Not just any yogurt now, okay? Greek yogurt. Having proclaimed that good health is the key to good skin. If your skin isn’t good, it’s a signal that something is wrong, which was a very modern ethos that Heburn ensured she got lots of fresh air and sleep while keeping her exposure to the sun to a minimum.

 Unlike some other legendary Hollywood actresses, Audrey Hburn has maintained a relatively pristine image and maintained a graceful princess-like bearing throughout her career. A look that suited her Oscar-winning performance as Princess Anna and Roman Holiday. We had no idea that her sweet demeanor mask more than her fair share of scandals. Right.

 She had a few scandals aside from her pristine image. The rumored past relationships between Audrey Hapburn and JFK is relatively unknown. In any case, the image of JFK and Marilyn Monroe is the most iconic. Like how nobody knew that Heburn a year after Marilyn Monroe also sing happy birthday to the president.

 Yes, nobody talks about her singing happy birthday to the president. When JFK was life was taken, it came out that she had dated him while he was a senator. The actress reportedly asked the audience to pray for him before entering the carriage and sobbing privately off stage. Also, the first film in which she starred called Roman Holiday was a favorite of President John F.

 Kennedy’s, but Kennedy was with everybody. If you haven’t seen my Jackie Kennedy video, go check that out. Poor Jackie, she went through it with this man cuz this man had affairs with all of Hollywood. Okay, I hope you guys enjoy that. Audrey had an affair with a married man also named William Holden. They met while filming Sabrina. Her co-star William Holden was married.

Audrey Heburn and William Holden both adored each other. Audrey’s Heburn elegance captivated him. Artist who was Holden’s wife demanded her husband stop dating Audrey Heburn. But did they listen? No. Audrey, like so many other women, yearned to start a family. After further investigation, it was discovered that William Holden had a vasectomy.

Given that William Holden knew how much it meant to Audrey to have children, she was devastated to learn the news. Her relationship with William Holden ended quickly after. Now, let’s get into her childhood real quick and we’ll get into her career. J Kathleen Rosten, that was her original name.

 She was born on May 4th, 1929 in Brussels, Belgium. He had a privileged and protected upbringing the first couple years of her life. Because of her father’s work, she and her family moved to three different countries, broadening her exposure to different cultures. Audrey’s parents, staunch supporters of the Nazi regime, traveled to Germany to march and rally.

 Joseph, her father, was so entrenched in his rosism that he did something inexcusable. In 1935, he abandoned Audrey and her mother for London, where he concentrated on his tyrannical activities. He later professed that her father’s departure was the most traumatic event of her life. >> Audrey Heppern was born in Brussels, Belgium on May 4th, 1929.

>> Her mother was a Christian scientist. Her mother, the baroness, was already a divorce and raising two sons when she met and married Audrey’s father, Joseph Hepern Rustin, an AngloIrish businessman. Her father was a banker of some sort. He was more like a Wheeler dealer, but her mother was a member of the Dutch aristocracy.

 So, financially they were uh certainly better off than uh most people. They did have several residences, but they fought constantly about a lot of things. Uh money in particular. Audrey spent most of her time with nannies or with her half-bros Ian and Alexander. At the tender age of five, young Audrey was packed up and sent to a fashionable boarding school.

 Audrey blossomed at her new school. Here she learned English and showed a talent for dance. And by 1938, the Baroness and Joseph divorced. From that time on, Audrey would rarely see her father. >> Feelings of abandonment she suffered at losing the father she adored would be something she would struggle with her entire life.

 But there was a great deal of pain involved. My mother explained very sweetly that he’d that he’d gone away on a trip and she didn’t think he was coming back. I was terribly jealous about the little girls who did have adoring daddies. And my mother did a wonderful thing. She never ever spoke against him. In 1939, war broke out in Europe.

 A year later, Hitler invaded Holland. And for five long years, war became a way of life for young Andre. Throughout our youth, she would always talk about what it’s like to grow up. An environment where the basics that we are used to in today’s world are not there and uh you don’t have your freedom. You’re not able to go and say as you please.

 I think that’s really what shocked her the most. [snorts] Heburn spent much of World War II in occupied Holland. Her mother had previously been sympathetic to the Nazi party also. But after Audrey’s uncle was imprisoned and executed, she began to support the resistance movement. I was 10 when the war broke out. I was alone in England.

My mother brought me back to Holland where they were living. There’s so many images that will never go away. There was a knock on the door and they took my uncle away who 6 months later was shot and another uncle too. And my brothers went underground. There was a knock on the door and they took my uncle away who 6 months later was shot.

 And another uncle too. And my brothers went underground. That’s when really the hard time started. Those images have never never left me. In 1939, as the war in Europe escalated, the Baroness insisted on rejoin her in Arnham, Holland. On May 5th, 1940, Nazi troops rolled through the streets of Arnham, heralding the ominous onset of occupation.

>> One brother went into hiding and her other brother was inducted and taken to a forced labor situation in Germany. >> As Holland suffered under the scourge of Nazi occupation, Audrey did what she could to help the Allied resistance whenever possible. She took messages occasionally to people. Uh the kids could keep them in their shoes.

 They could uh have a lot more mobility than the adults. Food always in short supply now became impossible to find. >> Life was extremely difficult for them under those circumstances. No food at all. They were reduced to eating tulip bulbs and cooked grass. >> On May 5th, 1945, Germany surrendered to the Allied forces.

 The war was at last over. Within weeks, Audrey’s brothers returned home and her family and the world joined together in a long overdue reunion. >> Many people consider Audrey Heepburn to be the epitome of class beauty because of her incredibly slim and delicate frame. But the severe hunger she endured during World War II is to blame for her small, slim figure.

 Also, the occupying Nazis wartime prospects dimmed. So they punished the Dutch people by cutting back on food rations. Heburn recalls that by the following winter of 1944, her family was trying to get by by cooking grass, nettles, and toilet bulbs in an attempt to stay alive. She was also afflicted with asthma, jaundice, and she was anemic.

 Heburn was 5’7 in tall before the war, was down to only 88 lb by its conclusion. As a volunteer nurse, Heburn took care of soldiers. She was a ballet student who put on shows to raise money for the Dutch underground. She also helped the resistance movement against the Nazis by delivering messages. Numerous Hollywood press agents may have been trying to make up for Heepern’s parents’ ties to oppression by writing about her purported involvement with the Dutch resistance and experiences witnessing Nazi atrocities. A lot of people kind of

I don’t know it’s something that they don’t really talk about, but you’ll find in like old articles from that era as I was digging where a lot of people was like these studios are trying to make her sound like she was this angel of the war and this that and the third where they didn’t really believe it.

 They thought that they were just trying to sell that image because her family was attached to that. But in her later years in life, she did a lot of philanthropic work. But even then, people was like, m maybe she did it to kind of show that she really was not like, you know, still going on with the image that she wasn’t attached to this.

 Just trying to remove herself from that kind of imagery. I don’t know. In 1938, Heburn’s parents filed for divorce. Heburn reconnected with her father in the 1960s after finding him in Dublin with the help of the Red Cross. Despite remaining emotionally distant, Heburn provided for him financially until his death. When Heburn was a teenager, she picked up the habit habit of smoking.

 She smoked two or three packs a day for the rest of her life. She hid cigarettes in her nuns habit so she could smoke during intermissions of the nun story. She kept smoking even as public awareness of tobacco’s ill effects grew. She cleverly justified her destructive behavior by saying, “I have some sins.” Now, as far as her career, after the war ended in 1945, Heburn moved with her mother and siblings to Amsterdam, where she began ballet training.

 Given that the war had wiped out the family’s wealth, her mother found employment as a cook and housekeeper for a wealthy family in order to provide for her children, she dropped the rustin part of her name and began working as a model. On the side, Rambert warned her that she would never make it as a prima ballerina due to her short stature.

 Yes, 5’7 was considered short to be a ballerina and her frail health, both of which were a result of wartime malnutrition. So instead, she pursued a career in acting. Initially, she was a chorus girl in West End musicals, and she later made cameos in a number of films, starring opposite Gregory Peek and the romantic comedy Roman Holiday.

 She became the first actress to win an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and a British Academy film award, all for the same performance. In the same year, her performance in earned her the Tony Award for best lead actress in a play. She went on to tour in a number of successful films such as Sabrina. Funny face was released in 1957, a musical where she sang her own parts.

 The drama The Nun Story was out in 1957. And also my favorite romantic comedy Breakfast at Tiffany’s was released in 1961. The thriller romance charade opposite Carrie Grant in the musical My Fair Lady 1964. And in 1967, she starred in the thriller Wait Until Dark, receiving Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA nominations. After that, she only occasionally appeared in films, one being Robin and Marion with Shan Connory.

 Her last recorded performances were in the 1990 documentary television series Garden of the World with Audrey Heburn for which she won a Prime Time Emmy Award for outstanding individual achievement informational programming. So Heburn won three BAFTA awards for best British actress in a leading role. In recognition of her film career, she received BAFTA’s lifetime achievement award, the Golden Globes Cecil B Deil award, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and the Special Tony Award. She remains one of the most one

of the only 17 people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards. At a cocktail party hosted by mutual friend Gregory Peek, Heburn met American actor Mel Ferrer and suggested that they work together in a play. The meeting led to them working together in Andine where they started dating.

 On September 25th, 1954, 8 months later, they got married at Birkenstock, Switzerland. At the time, they were getting ready to be in the movie War and Peace. Sean Heer and Ferrer is her son with Ferrer. He said she and Ferrer were inseparable and happy together despite the fact that she acknowledged he had a bad temper. Despite the insistence of gossip columns that their marriage would not last, Berrer was said to be too controlling and he laughed off the rumors that he was her spali.

 I think Audrey allows Mel to think he influences her. Holden was quoted as saying this 14-year union ended and divorced in 1968. In June of 1968, while on a cruise through the Mediterranean with some friends, Hurn met her second husband, Italian psychiatrist Andrea Dodie. She thought she was going to have more kids and eventually give up her job.

 They tied the knot on the 18th of January 1969. And eight months later on the 8th of February 1970, Luca Andrea Dodie, her son, was born. In 1969, when Heburn was carrying her son Luca, she took extra precautions. She rested for months before having a ceerian section. During the time that they were filming Bloodline, both Dodie and Heburn were unfaithful with Dodie having affairs with younger women and Heburn having a romantic relationship with actor Ben Gazara.

 13 years after they tied the knot, Doy and Heburn divorced in 1982. He dated Dutch actor Robert Walders from 1980 until her death in 1993. Towards the end of her second marriage, she met Walders through a mutual friend. And in 1989, she said that their nine years together were the best of her life and that she treated them as husband and wife, even though they weren’t legally married.

>> Audrey and I met at the end of 1979. My wife had died several months before. Audrey was destroyed by a failed marriage. I think it was very frightening for Audrey and and and she was content to just be uh friends at first, which which is all that I wanted at the time as well. >> Audrey Heppern and actor Robert Walders fell in love.

 Some of our friends regarded us as antisocial. Days at home would be very very leisurely. >> When it comes to Audrey Heburn’s religion, her mother was a Christian scientist. Audrey’s mother raised her as a Christian scientist. However, I get the impression from things I’ve read about her and documentaries that she herself was not a super religious person.

 She was quoted saying, and I quote, “I have enormous faith, but it’s not attached to anyone particular religion. My mother was one thing. my father another in Holland they were all Calvinists that has no importance at all to me end quote Audrey had a great sense of faith but it’s true that she was not attached to any particular religion except for pantheism as she said in later years June 5th 1956 Audrey mentioned in an interview with Phyllis Battel and I quote two things I never talk about are salary and religion I find them sort of intimate things and

besides it changes all the time end quote She hastened to add, “What she meant is that her salary changes. My religion has been the same for 27 years, but I won’t tell anybody what it is. Not that I’m Muhammadian or whatever or anything surprising. I just keep it to myself.” End quote. She is a pantheist. Pantheism is the belief that God is identical with the universe, meaning God is all and all is God.

 Viewing the entire cosmos as a single divine entity or manifestation of God, emphasizing God’s presence within nature rather than as a separate creator. This concept merges God in the universe suggesting everything from stars to people is divine. A view rooted in Greek words pan all and theos God. It contrasts with traditional views by denying a distinct transcendent God separate from creation seeing reality as one unified often impersonal divine whole.

 So in essence she believes that all things have the capability to be God and she is pro- nature, mother earth, mother nature and finding solace in that and that God is in everything. So more like uh similar to Olivia Newton John best remedy for those who are afraid lonely is to go outside alone with the heavens, nature and God.

 And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles. >> Now, in terms of our political beliefs, Audrey Heburn didn’t publicly align with specific political parties, but was deeply committed to humanitarian causes, especially child welfare driven by her own wartime experiences in Nazi occupied Holland, which involved supporting the Dutch resistance.

 Her later life was dedicated to UNICEF as a goodwill ambassador, focusing on humanizing politics by prioritizing aid for children in crisis, famously saying, and I quote, “There is nothing political about the life of a child.” End quote. In terms of scandal, though many saw Audrey Hepburn as the classier opposite of Marilyn Monroe, it was far from the opposite.

 The women both had similar scandals, but Audrey was just better at keeping her scandals under wraps and concealed. And the studios did a much better job at concealing her scandals because she was very profitable. She was banking in getting Oscar after Oscar after Oscar. Audrey Heburn’s biggest scandal involved secret extrammarital affairs particularly with Sabrina co-star William Holden while married to Mel Ferrer and a complicated often difficult marriage to Ferrer followed by another marriage to Andrea Dodie marked by mutual infidelity and unhappiness

revealing a more sensually complex private life than her atheist with desires for love and children clashing with realities of her marriage. Audrey and Holden was probably the most scandalous because Holden was married and his wife was pretty intense. Even so, Audrey Heppern was head over heels in love with William Holden and so was William Holden.

 He was very entranced by the sophisticated beauty that is Audrey Heppern. Apparently, artist Holden’s wife sensed this, too. In most cases, she didn’t mind her husband womanizing behavior because it’s Hollywood. That’s what they all did. But she mined when it came to Audrey Heburn. Audrey Heburn was different.

 She was a threat to Artist marriage because he saw that he actually liked her. Artist gave an ultimatum and demanded her husband to stop seeing Audrey Heppern. And in the end, this was hardly necessary. Like many other women, Audrey wanted to have children. It turned out that William Holden had a vasectomy.

 Audrey was heartbroken when she found out, especially since William Holden knew how much it meant to her. She probably ended her affair with William Holden. She reconciled with Mel Ferrer and the announcement of their engagement was done at Holden’s house because Paramont wanted to ward rumors about her affair. So, do you see how sneaky the studios were? Paramount, they made the engagement with Ferrare at Holden’s house who she was having an affair with just to quell rumors that there’s no way if there was really an affair they would do it at the house.

But that’s far from the truth. Not many know about Audrey Heppern and JFK rumored past relationships either. After all, JFK’s most popular pictured picture picture was with Marilyn Monroe, right? Just like how people didn’t know that Heburn also sang the birthday song to the president a year after Marilyn Monroe.

 It was revealed that she dated JFK during his days as a senator when JFK was shot. It was said that the actress requested everyone to pray for him, went inside the carriage offstage, and cried. Also, one of JFK’s favorite movies was Roman Holiday, the first movie that she starred in. And y’all know how JFK gets down, okay? But this is very, very hush hush quiet.

 And the studios really did a great job of keeping this hush hush quiet because they need her to have the angelic saintly image. Audrey Eburn also smoked like a chimney. She was a smoker like her character as Holly Gollightly in her iconic movie breakfast at Tiffany’s. You might be surprised to know this fact. One wouldn’t expect the sweet Audrey Heburn to smoke, but here it is.

 As a matter of fact, Audrey Hepern smoked three packs a day. Like any other person who smoked, she smoked to calm her nerves and relax. Moreover, at the time, smoking dangers weren’t known. Doctors even recommended it at the time. In terms of her influence, in the age of Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Heppern held her own as she ushered in a new era of femininity and fundamentally changed the way movie audiences perceived women.

 Younger women were sick and tired of the unattainable beauty standards that these actresses were portrayed on the silver screen. Liz Taylor was once famously called an eternal one night stand by her then husband Richard Burton and Marilyn well she’s Marilyn Monroe and I did a video for both women which I’ll put in the end cards so check that out.

 When Roman Holiday was released in 1953, it was greeted with critical and financial success, co-starring Gregory Peek and written by a blacklisted Dton Trumbo. The movie took home three Academy Awards, including Audrey Heburn for best actress in a leading role. Not only was director William Wiler lauded for his directoral efforts, but the film also saw the meteoric rise of Heburn.

 Only 24 years young, Heburn was a refreshing change from the curvier, sexier movie stars of that era. Not only did she manage to win an Oscar on her film debut, but she also brought radical change to the way women dressed. While men, both young and old, could enjoy the company of a Liz Taylor or a Marilyn Monroe, younger women felt that they could comfortably copy Heper’s look without feeling inadequate.

 In other words, Heburn made being slim a positive instead of a negative. She was comfortable for women, right? >> At a time when Marilyn Monroe had made curves the fashion, you know, you really sort of did away with bosoms and curves all in your [laughter] I made it uh to this lovely interview. Nevertheless, years later, in spite of the fact that I had no curves.

>> Did you want to look any different? >> Oh, yes. I mean always as a child and then and even now except now I sort of relax you know I sort of accepted myself the way I am as I wanted to be a dancer and as [clears throat] I have rather large feet once I was up on on toe [laughter] you can imagine I was a very tall dancer I’ve learned to live with myself as >> oh here we are we were all envious of you and and the image that you created >> faced with deprivation and the growing horrors of war Audrey threw herself more

and more into the glamorous and rigorous world of dance he was allowed to study and perform at the Arnham Conservatory of Music. >> I was never going to be a great dancer. I was too tall. I didn’t have the training that I should have had when I was younger because of the war and so forth.

 As soon as I could, I wanted desperately to become a dancer and I got a scholarship in in the Rom Ballet School in London. >> But at 19 years old, the struggling 5’7 dance student was devastated to learn that she was by now too tall and too old to ever be a prima ballerina. Utilizing her dance training, Audrey settled for work as a chorus girl and quickly found employment in several West End shows and nightclubs.

 While working at Ceros, Audrey caught the attention of casting directors and fashion photographers alike. >> He was a dancer. That’s what she wanted to do. That’s what she was trained to do. That’s really what her goal was in life. She became an actress by accident. >> Didn’t know how long the wall was going to last till I went to a ballet school and learned to dance.

>> And she also popularized the term manic pixie dream girl. She is the quintessential manic pixie dream girl, right? Uh so what is a manic pixie dream girl? A manic pixie dream girl is a quirky eccentric female stock character in fiction whose primary role is to help a brood brooding male protagonist embrace life’s joy.

 to a lame, boring man to see life’s joy and just let go and be free. Existing as a plot device for his growth, not her own. Often lacking her own depth, goals, or personality beyond being a catalyst for the hero. Eccentric, she’s usually eccentric and quirky, she has quirky interest, vintage music, specific fashion, is bubbly and unconventional and life affirming.

 She pulls the male lead out of depression or a mundane existence, teaching him to live fully. and the plot device. Her main purpose is the male protagonist development. She has a few or no personal goals or internal life. And also for the male gays, she’s male gays oriented. She is often presented as an idealized lowmaintenance fantasy for the male character. So, she’s fun.

 She’s a type that eats 50 cheeseburgers and never gain an ounce of weight. She loves video games and she usually does have a pixie cut, low cut like Audrey does. And she’s very well to do. And in the industry, Audrey Heppern was known to be very friendly with like the Rock Hudsons, Gregory Peek, all of the men in Hollywood.

 She was like their home girl, you know, really cool with them. And even the directors rarely had issues with her. So, she got along pretty well with everyone, right? So, everyone liked her. And then publicly to the public, the viewers, the women loved her as well cuz she was not seen as a threat cuz she wasn’t overly sexual.

 She was classier and carried herself in a way that wasn’t too attention-seeking, but she was free and loved life. She loved gardening, etc., and dancing. So, women loved her cuz though she was beautiful, she had the face of a canvas, right? An artist’s dream. Beautiful face. Very beautiful face.

 So, they admired her beauty, but they also didn’t feel threatened by her beauty because she didn’t lead with her body. And men also loved her beauty, but they loved how warm and down to earth and playful she was and sincere in everything that she did. So, she was just the perfect person for Hollywood and society. And the manic pixie dream girl thus became a reality because in the end, she was a dream girl to everybody.

 She was Hollywood’s dream girl. Now, as far as her charity work goes, in the 1950s, Heburn narrated two UNICEF radio programs about wartime children. He was UNICEF’s goodwill ambassador in 1989. 1989 was Heburn’s first UNICEF field mission. She visited a starving orphanage and Michael and had UNICEF send food of the trip.

 She said, “I have a broken heart. I feel desperate. I can’t stand the idea that 2 million people are in imminent danger of starving to death. Many of them children. And not because there isn’t tons of food sitting in the northern port of Showa. It can’t be distributed. I went into rebel country and saw mothers and their children who had walked for 10 days, even 3 weeks, looking for food, settling onto the desert floor into makeshift camps where they may die. Horrible.

 That image is too much for me. The third world is a term I don’t like very much because we’re all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering. End quote. In September 1992, 4 months before she died, Heburn went to Somalia, calling it apocalyptic, she said. I walked into a nightmare. I have seen famine in Ethiopia and Bangladesh, but I have seen nothing like this.

 So much worse than I could possibly have imagined. I wasn’t prepared for this. Though scarred by what she had seen, Hepern still had hope, stating, and I quote, “As we move into the 21st century, there is much to reflect upon. We look around us and see the promises of yesterday have to come to pass. People still live in object poverty. People are still hungry.

 People still struggle to survive. And among these people, we see the children. Always the children. Their enlarged bellies, their sad eyes, their wise faces that show the suffering, all the suffering they have endured in their short years. By 1989, the role she truly coveted was Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF, the United Nations Relief Organization for Children.

 She was a child of the war and of near starvation who’d been rescued by a UN organization. She not only remembered it, but she felt she had an obligation to give it back. Speaking before congressional committees and in numerous public service announcements, Audrey’s heartfelt pleas on behalf of starving children helped raise the world’s consciousness.

 Being without food or being fearful for one’s own life or bombings or fighting and all of that has made me terribly appreciative of course. >> What was she really like? Compassionate [music] because they think she’s elegant because they think she’s glamorous. That they can look with confidence because she is all of those things.

>> Now Heburn experienced abdominal pain after returning to Switzerland from Somalia in late September 1992. Inconclusive results from initial medical tests in Switzerland led doctors at Cedar Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles to perform a laparoscopy in early November where they discovered a rare form of abdominal cancer.

 The cancer had spread to her small intestine as a thin layer having grown slowly over several years. Heburn began her chemotherapy treatment after surgery. Heburn and her family returned to Switzerland for her final Christmas. She was unable to fly commercial because she was still recovering from surgery. Her longtime friend, fashion designer de Jioveni, arranged for socialite Rachel Lambert Bunny Melon to fly her bird from Los Angeles to Geneva in her private Gulfream jet, which was filled with flowers. She spent her final days in

hospice care at her home and to Shanaz Vaude and was occasionally well enough to go for walks in her garden before becoming increasingly confined to bed. On the evening of January 20th, 1993, Hburn died in her sleep at home. cuz she died really young. She was only 63 years old when she passed away.

 That to me is very very young. I remember when I was like 5 years old, I thought 20 was old. I thought when people died at 20, they lived a long life, you know. And then as I get older, I realize just how young like 60, even 70 is, you know. Still could have lived for a much longer time. So people still continue to copy her makeup, the eyebrows.

 She used to pencil her eyebrows in so much and her lips overlining them also. She just had a classic makeup look and also the slick ponytails, slick down hair. I just love the fashion of the 40s and 50s a lot. Those my favorite years for fashion and I I just I don’t know. Maybe one day I’ll make a comeback. I really really love that era.

 Just the polish pristine look and she just every time I think of that era, I always go back to Audrey Heppern cuz she was just the style icon. But I love you guys so much. Thank you for tuning in. Please comment below. Who else would you guys like to