How Sophia Loren became a screen goddess

Sophia Loren is the ultimate Hollywood movie star, synonymous with beauty and a glamorous lifestyle.

Her rise to fame wasn’t easy; she was born into a life of poverty, and even when she did enter the spotlight, her looks were criticized.

Today we recognize her as the most beautiful woman ever to grace our screens, still stunning at 88 years old.

It’s hard to believe the woman who inspired music, turned down a marriage proposal from Cary Grant, and became the first actor to win an Oscar for a foreign-language film had the start she did.

Born Sofia Villani Scicolone Rome in 1934, her mother was a piano tutor and actress whose good looks also caught the attention of Hollywood. Sophia’s beautiful mom once won a Greta Garbi lookalike contest – but her strict family wouldn’t allow her to pursue a career on the big screen.


Instead, the mother would guide her daughter and help Sophia in her future film career.

Sophia grew up without the support of her father, who was also dad to her younger sister Maria but he refused to marry their mother and had no involvement in family life.

”I saw my father only six times in my life,” she told People Magazine. “He was a great source of pain and humiliation for my mother, whom he seduced and abandoned, for my younger sister, Maria, who suffered terribly because he would not give her his name, and for myself.”


Growing up in a single-parent household was tough financially.

16 Celebs Who Don’t Care About “What People Say” When It Comes to Breastfeeding

Being a woman is no simple task. And if we talk about being a mother, the equation becomes twice as complicated. Among all the challenges that motherhood brings, supplying something as basic as food for the baby is at the top of the list. And to help people to not see it as something “out of place” or “wrong,” some celebrities do not hesitate to breastfeed their children in public, proudly and in full view of anyone who wants to see it.

At Bright Side, we salute celebrities who empower breastfeeding and the actions that come with it (like pumping). After all, what could be more natural and human?

1. Kourtney Kardashian

https://www.instagram.com/p/1qo_4pk1ii/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=ebf33292-28d6-47e6-b091-ed48629dee37

2. Amanda Seyfried

https://www.instagram.com/p/B1eMuhcAbDv/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=eec045b3-1290-4aa4-899f-630fa977061a

3. Gwen Stefani

https://www.instagram.com/p/q35El8OLQI/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=bdc7e50c-ac19-4d3c-b256-ab13226e1b41

4. Halsey

https://www.instagram.com/p/CSIgSeWFLdM/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=0e56f018-6633-4666-a1bf-cc303ccdb804

5. Kate Hudson

https://www.instagram.com/p/BsiUJ37AgII/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=c933b584-ef2f-4c12-9408-baa74ddbe384

6. Pink

https://www.instagram.com/p/BSzPkSElXvZ/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=82b6a6af-d4c6-4335-b454-3c3f2885f96a

7. Paola Mayfield

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzs-cb5AkRg/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=71d5ebe9-3202-4d55-bcbf-cc5c4e5fd3e1

8. Shay Mitchell

9. Alanis Morissette

https://www.instagram.com/p/rOgEbCOYM3/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=8206ee12-f0cc-4218-968a-59c3e4e8573c

10. Katherine Schwarzenegger

11. Chrissy Teigen

12. Amy Schumer

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxm4ScNleLP/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=fb37fcb6-684e-486c-8fde-726d2d79e3f8

13. Hilary Duff

https://www.instagram.com/p/BxLgOfuAqbe/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=f16e7664-97cb-4ec0-baa5-b6619924f87c

14. Lauren Hashian (and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson)

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bj3JIWCF7Wk/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=251eee58-ff30-4d9c-9888-83580f2a7e1f

15. Heidi Montag

https://www.instagram.com/p/BjxdubjFgAo/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=46a0722e-340b-4537-9d46-2240ec5e8009

16. Troian Bellisario

https://www.instagram.com/sleepinthegardn/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=939b6798-a8f4-437e-a6c1-826280d369e5

What do you think about celebrities showing this side of motherhood? What has your experience been like feeding your baby?

Preview photo credit katehudson / Instagramiamhalsey / Instagram

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