Audrey Hepburn Research Paper

Audrey Hepburn has always been known as the glamorous and flawless movie star that won America’s hearts on the big screen. Yet, people would never know how she put a smile on her face despite her childhood plastered with horrors, anxiety, depression, rejection, and starvation. They would never know how she became a humanitarian and a source of good because of all she faced at such a young age. Despite all of this, Audrey Hepburn was an inspiration to society because she was different through her challenges and outlook. Audrey Hepburn was in her teenage years during the WWII. Her and many other people during WWII, ate barely anything but tulips and small portions of bread.“By the end of WWII, Audrey Hepburn was 5’6” and weighed 88 pounds. Starvation

In the 1950’s, her movie career was ending. Instead of living a comfortable retirement, Audrey decided to give back. She became a Special Ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund and became a humanitarian. She was remembered by saying, “There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don't." When she was visiting South Sudan in 1989, she visited a Sudanese refugee camp. She saw a fourteen year old boy laying in the dirt with “anemia, respiratory problems and edema, due to malnutrition”. Seeing this she says, “That was exactly the same way I finished the war - at that age, with those three things. I thought, how strange to hear those same three things.” Because Audrey Hepburn had gone through similar difficulties as the people she visited, her heart went to those people and craved for them to not suffer as she had ("Tribute to the Humanitarian Work of Audrey Hepburn”).” Audrey also suffered with her inability to have children. She had three miscarriages all in the years of 1955, 1959 and 1974. Despite the various forms of health problems she possessed, she was an example of how she didn’t let those stop her from following her dreams. At the end of her life, the beautiful Audrey died of a very rare form colon cancer at the age of 63 (Audrey Hepburn - Her Life, Her