Audrey Hepburn is an icon of the sylph-like body but she suffered through poor health and malnutrition during her young life. New science in epigenetics proposes her body was fundamentally altered by starvation during her life in Nazi occupied Netherlands - it is the link between poor diet and genetic disruption.
November 1944 to May 1945 recalled in Dutch history as "the hunger winter" when Germans occupied their country and blockaded her area causing mass malnutrician and the deaths of 18,000.
The daughter of a Dutch Baroness and an English Banker, she watched her brother be dragged away to labour camp and her uncle and cousin executed. She ate tulips and grass. And spent the final years of the war hiding from Nazis in a cellar.
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