Relatives have denied all rumors of bulimia and other eating disorders, which were attributed to the celebrity.
The actress's son, 47-year-old designer Luca Dotti, told People magazine that one of the slimmest actresses in the history of cinema was an adherent of Italian cuisine and happily devoured both spaghetti and meat. The thing is that Hepburn ate food in very small portions. This is what allowed her to keep her weight around 50 kilograms all her life, and her waist within 55 centimeters.
According to a close friend of the actress Robert Walders, Hepburn never tormented herself with diets. The star's menu included chocolates, and two-finger whiskey before bed, and rye bread with jam for breakfast, and fried chicken and veal for lunch. The actress also ate a lot of grains. Walders said, among other things, Hepburn could walk for hours on end.
It is worth noting that during the war years, when Audrey was still a child and was in Nazi-occupied Holland, she only had to eat nettles, tulip bulbs and drink a lot of water in order to at least fill her stomach with something. Perhaps it was then that she developed anemia, from which she suffered all her life.
In the last years of her life, the actress spent a lot of energy working for UNICEF. During a trip to Somalia and Kenya in 1992, she developed severe abdominal pain. The cause was a tumor in the colon. In January 1993, Audrey Hepburn died of cancer at the age of 64.
