Did you know ? Marilyn and Audrey

I'm pretty sure everybody has something interesting about them... wether it's small anecdotes  or "simply" an extraordinary life. Turns out the following fashion icons have both. There's more about them than just the fame and glamourous lifestyle. Here are a few unimportantly interesting facts about a couple ladies, who's names are always the first to pop into my head when I hear the words « fashion Icons ». Can you guess who they are?

Audrey Hepburn

-She was born in Belgium, but has an english nationality because of her farther.
-During the 1930s, her parents were members of the British Union of Fascists.

-She trained to be a ballerina and used to perform to raise money for the Dutch Resistance.

-After the liberation of the Netherlands, she was so malnourished that she fell ill after eating some sugar and a can of condensed milk – she was unused to rich food. 

-She had to abandon her professionnal ballerina career because of her malnutrition, and because, at 5ft7, she was too tall.

-She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work with UNICEF.

-Audrey's feet were a size 10.

-She promised herself to never exeed 103 pounds, exept during her pregnancies, and she succeeded.

-Hepburn could speek English, Spanish, French, Dutch and Italian.

-Truman Capote, « Breakfast at Tiffany's » writer qualified Audrey Hepburn as being « grossly miscast » as Holly Golightly, Marilyn Monroe being his first choice.


Speaking of Marilyn...

Marilyn Monroe

-Norma Jeane nearly chose the screen name of Jean Adair but changed it to Marilyn Monroe in March 1956.

-She had 11 sets of foster parents, and lived in an orphenage, her mom being held in a mental institution.

-She had two plastic surgeries : a rinoplasty and a chin implant.

-She used to use five types of lipstick and gloss: darker reds were used on the outer corners, lighter shades in the middle and a highlighted cupid's bow and bottom lip, to create her fleshy pout.

-Marilyn was burried in a green pucci nylon jersey dress.

-Monroe was an acute stutterer and in the early part of her acting career received elocution lessons to correct it.

-The blonde had an IQ of 168.

-And owned over 400 books.

-When she was with Arthur Miller, she suffered an ectopic prengnancy and a miscarriage.

-Monroe made Joe DiMaggio promise to leave flowers on her grave every week if she died before him. He kept his promise and had half-dozen red roses were delivered three times a week to her crypt for 20 years.

I hope you enjoyed this post. If you did, I'll come back with more installments of this series featuring other inspiring ladies.

See you soon,

Maddy