She took up acting because the malnutrition she suffered under the nazis permanently damaged her health and prevented her from pursuing her dream to be a ballerina. During the war, she danced to raise money for the resistance - even though she was literally starving, she used what strength she had to make sure more nazis got shot.Â
She and her mom also denounced their royal heritage because of the Nazis in their family
Also Audrey was a humanitarian until her death, though ill with cancer, she continued her work for UNICEF, travelling to Somalia, Kenya, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, France and the United States.
These are things I literally never would have known about. I’m tired of women being painted as just being pretty.
I’M SO HAPPY TO SEE HER AT AN OLDER AGE I SWEAR!
Here’s another nice one.
For the longest time I assumed she had died really young because I never saw any pictures of her at an older age. She was an amazing woman.
“If stuff was just handed to me I’d have no motivation to do anything! That’s human nature!”
No, babe, that’s depression. Psychologically healthy people are still motivated to do things even when their survival isn’t being actively threatened.
If you’re going to talk about “Russian oligarchs” (which you should, because public life in Russia is dominated by corrupt billionaires), then you need to also normalize use of the term “American oligarchs”, since the USA has a higher Gini coefficient than Russia does.
Going to bring this back since apparently the infamous American oligarch Michael Bloomberg is pitching a hissy fit about people pointing out that he’s an oligarch.
reminds me of seeing this article and thinking… we already live in a constitutional oligarchy? it’s already not a democracy.
