Audrey Hepburn

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Audrey Hepburn weighed only 88 pounds, suffered from jaundice and anemia, survived on boiled grass and tulip bulbs and had her dream of becoming a ballerina crushed by the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands ...

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Tiny dancer: Audrey Hepburn's dream of becoming a ballerina was thwarted by the Nazi occupation of Arnhem in the Netherlands. The World War II interrupted Audrey's private schooling in London and her dreams of being a classical ballerina. It put her five years behind the training of other girls who had better food and shelter during the War, her son writes in his new book