I think she must've smoked instead of eating.

We all eventually die, that much is true but Audrey Hepburn kept on smoking constantly and ended her life. Instead you know, rather than live through her 80's and 90's till she'd naturally die. sigh

Again, smoking was a normal social thing at the time and dangers of smoking were not nearly as well known, if at all. I'm sure if she were around and in her heyday now she wouldn't have started.
And that could very well be why she became so passionate about UNICEF.

Well, she was never all that healthy because she almost starved to death during WWII. Her son said that she only weighed 88 lbs when she was 16. She was 5'6". For several months her family subsisted on wild endive and tulip bulbs, which they would grind into flour and make biscuits. It left her with many health problems. She ate plenty as an adult, but her body just didn't absorb nutrients very well.
It was that experience that got her involved with UNICEF. She had great empathy for suffering children, because she had been one herself.

That's too bad because she was one of the most beautiful women of all time. Smoking does so much harm to the body in terms of your looks and health. Don't know why anyone would ever want to do that to themselves

Exactly. It was socially normal and possibly even encouraged in her day.

I agree, whean I was a child in the 70s everybody smoked, in family dinner tables and it was considered elegant and cool. Today I'm really surprised that there's still people who start smoking knowing hao bad ir for your health (and how disgusting it is).

Given the time she was born lots of people smoked. It was the norm. I'm glad that the tide is turning but it took a lot of decades to get to the present day where smoking isn't looked on as something elegant or cool. But now they have the smokeless e-cigs, which I hear are just as bad.
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It is sad. A lot of smokers find it impossible to quit, as it's so addictive.