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Audrey Hepburn: A Life Devoted
“I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles.” This is a quote from the elegant, sophisticated and charming Audrey Hepburn, who Vogue calls “incomparably lovely.” Audrey Hepburn was one of the world’s most devoted, popular, and caring women in the entertainment business of and beyond her time. The world would benefit greatly from more women like Hepburn (Christy 8.)
Born Audrey Kathleen Ruston on May 4, 1929 to parents Joseph Hepburn-Ruston and Ella van Heemstra, Audrey lived with her two half-brothers, in Brussels, Belgium. She and her brothers lived a luscious life as young children, seeing that her mother was a Dutch Baroness who was descended from French and English kings and her father a well-known business man and banker. Audrey’s father later appended Hepburn to his surname, thus Audrey becoming Hepburn-Ruston (Biography of Audrey Hepburn.) In 1935 Joseph and Ella divorced, and Audrey recalled it to be one of the most traumatic events of her life. In the early years after the divorce, Audrey and her mother lived in England, but with the outbreak of World War II, her mother moved them to the Netherlands; this area was neutral and her mother’s home country. Much to her mother’s dismay, on May 10, 1940, Nazi Germans invaded the Netherlands and Audrey’s family, consisting of Audrey’s mother and her two half-brothers were forced to endure hardships of war (Audrey Hepburn 1929-1993.) Audrey suffered severely during the war, and became increasingly malnourished (Facts about Audrey Hepburn.)
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... Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Bangladesh, Thailand, Viet Nam, and Sudan. She helped grant starving children food, diseased children vaccinated, and thirsty people water. In addition to helping children overseas, Hepburn gave countless interviews on behalf of third world countries, contributed to the World Summit for Children, and gave UNICEF’s State of the World's Children reports. She received many awards for her years of working tirelessly in the mission field. Some of which are the United States' highest civilian award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In December of 1992, though riddled with cancer she still went on to serve in Somalia, Kenya, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, France and the United States.
Years later on January 20, 1993, Audrey Hepburn passed away after a long battle of colon cancer, leaving two sons, Luca and Sean behind.

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