I first saw Breakfast At Tiffany’s few years ago. And, that is when I was introduced to Audrey Hepburn. The woman I wanted to be like. I was caught by her natural cat-like beauty and her truthful acting. However, as I got older and learned what she did in her later years I really started to admire her more as a person then an actress.
Audrey Hepburn is a petite woman of timeless Hollywood elegance and beauty. Her sense of fashion is classic and almost always the same. She exudes a certain kind of grace that I wished I had.
Not a lot of people know the real Audrey Hepburn. Despite coming from a well-travelled European family with aristocratic roots, she has been through and witnessed first-hand the tribulations of war, at home and in public. Her father left her family abruptly when she was very young after her mother caught him having illict affairs with the family's nanny.
She has many recollections of the war. While she may physically look petite and frail, her courage was bold and strong. War had left Audrey Hepburn suffering from colitis, jaundice, anemia, endometriosis, asthma and depression.
Her history of having almost starved to death during the Nazi-occupied Holland of World War II, led her to dedicate the later part of her life to help save improvised children in the poorest nations. She became a formidable UNICEF goodwill ambassador for starving children around the world.
On the personal front, Audrey Hepburn located her estranged father in her 30s. And while he remained emotionally detached from his only daughter, she kept in contact and supported him financially