{"id":136696,"date":"2015-06-23T22:49:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T22:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2015\/06\/23\/audrey-hepburn-weighed-88-lbs-after-world-war-ii-son-reveals\/"},"modified":"2015-06-23T22:49:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T22:49:08","slug":"audrey-hepburn-weighed-88-lbs-after-world-war-ii-son-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2015\/06\/23\/audrey-hepburn-weighed-88-lbs-after-world-war-ii-son-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Audrey Hepburn Weighed 88 Lbs. After World War II, Son Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Although Audrey Hepburn has always been held up as a model of thinness, her son reveals that the root of her thin physique was her extreme malnourishment during the war. <\/div>\n
\u201cThe reason for her slenderness was because from the time she was 9 to 16, during World War II, she was extremely malnourished,\u201d says her youngest son Luca Dotti who\u2019s written a new memoir about his mom, Audrey at Home.\u201dThe time she most needed nourishment, she didn\u2019t have enough food.\u201d <\/div>\n
\u201cWhen the Nazis locked down Holland in 1944, they called it the Winter of Hunger and my mom didn\u2019t have enough to eat,\u201d he says. \u201cAlmost to the point of her body failing.\u201d <\/div>\n
At the end of the war, Hepburn, who stood 5\u20196\u201d, weighed just 88 lbs. The actress later described those years: \u201cWe ate nettles and everyone tried to boil grass \u2013 in addition to tulips \u2013 but I really couldn\u2019t stand it.\u201d <\/div>\n
One of the few things they could eat during the war years was endive. \u201cFor a long time that\u2019s all there was,\u201d writes Luca. \u201cShe used to say, \u2018Thank God there was at least that,\u2019 but then she would imitate Scarlett O\u2019Hara in Gone with the Wind, saying, \u2018I swore to myself that I would never eat it again in my life, not ever.\u2019 \u201c <\/div>\n
At times, Hepburn\u2019s mother told her to \u201cdrink water to feel full.\u201d And when she was too weak to stand up, he writes, \u201cShe would spend entire days in bed with a book, thus hoping to expel from her mind obsessive thoughts about food.\u201d <\/div>\n
\u201cShe suffered from asthma, jaundice and other illnesses caused by malnutrition,\u201d writes her son, \u201cincluding acute anemia and a serious form of edema which Mum explained like this: \u2018It begins with your feet and when it reaches your heart, you die. With me, it was above the ankles when I was liberated.\u2019 \u201c <\/div>\n
One day toward the end of the war, a Dutch soldier gave her seven candy bars, which she immediately gobbled up along with condensed milk given out by the U.N., and she immediately became ill. \u201cThe liberation forces came in with all sorts of things, cigarettes and chocolate, and my mother hadn\u2019t eaten for months,\u201d recalls Luca. \u201cShe ate it up but her stomach wasn\u2019t prepared. It was too small. She couldn\u2019t keep it down. Her stomach had been empty for too long.\u201d <\/div>\n
Throughout her entire life, Hepburn carried the pain of the war and all she had seen. \u201cStill, the taste of chocolate for her was connected with liberation,\u201d says her son. \u201cIt was the real taste of freedom.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although Audrey Hepburn has always been held up as a model of thinness, her son reveals that the root of her thin physique was her extreme malnourishment during the war.  \u201cThe reason for her slenderness was because from the time she was 9 to 16, during World War II, she was extremely malnourished,\u201d says her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}