Audrey Hepburn is remembered for her effortless elegance, but her evenings were a little more relaxed than her red-carpet image suggests.
The screen legend was said to end her day with a square of chocolate and a glass of Scotch. It wasn’t a guilty secret, either. It was part of a larger approach to food and living that she never treated as a diet.
In a 2017 interview for PEOPLE Magazine, Hepburn’s longtime partner, Robert Wolders, shared her eating habits, including her favorite indulgences.
Wolders told the outlet that Hepburn “didn’t diet. We had brown bread with jam for breakfast. Lunch would be chicken or veal or pasta, often with vegetables from the garden.”
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He continued, “For dinner, we often had soup with chicken and vegetables. She had chocolate after dinner, baking chocolate. She had a finger or two of Scotch at night.”
To balance out her meals, Hepburn enjoyed a daily favorite pasttime, walking. Wolders shared, “We’d walk for miles. She could outwalk me.”
He added, “She had a healthy metabolism, but she was not excessive. She never said, ‘I have to do five miles today.'”
Her son Luca Dotti echoed Wolders’ statements. Dotti admitted that his mother loved food but didn’t overindulge to excess.
“She loved Italian food and pasta. She ate a lot of grains, not a lot of meat, and a little bit of everything,” he shared.
View this post on InstagramDotti told Yahoo! Life, “”[Her favorite meal was] pasta with tomato sauce. Pasta with tomato sauce may sound easy, but to make it well is difficult, and no two results are always the same. Tomato sauce is not only tomatoes. Maybe with a little bit of potato or carrot.”
Hepburn also believed in clearing out her digestive system, which her son believed was a detox day. Over 24 hours, once a month, she would eat fruit, vegetables, yogurt, and drink a lot of water to balance herself from within.
Throughout most of her life, the 5’6″ Oscar winner stayed a trim 110 pounds. However, her slim figure may have been attributed to food insecurity as a young girl during World War II.
Dotti revealed, “By the end of the war, she was very close to death. She survived by eating nettles and tulip bulbs and drinking water to fill her stomach.”
He continued, “She was almost 5′ 6″ and weighed 88 lbs. She had jaundice and edema. She suffered from anemia the rest of her life, possibly as a consequence.”
Audrey Hepburn’s secret, if there was one, wasn’t a diet at all. It was knowing when to savor something and when to move on with her day. A little chocolate, [a little Scotch], and a lot of living in between.
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