{"id":568635,"date":"2026-07-26T07:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/568635\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T07:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:54:14","slug":"sean-hepburn-ferrer-shares-audrey-hepburns-real-beauty-secrets-and-daily-routine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/568635\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Hepburn Ferrer Shares Audrey Hepburn’s Real Beauty Secrets and Daily Routine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Audrey Hepburn<\/a>‘s eldest son,\u00a0Sean Hepburn Ferrer, has opened up about how his mother maintained her classic good looks and enviable figure.<\/p>\n

The Breakfast at Tiffany’s star is one of the most iconic actresses of all time and had a look women still try to emulate to this day<\/a>. But, according to People<\/a>, there are some inaccuracies about how the actress maintained her phisique.<\/p>\n

Sean Hebburn Ferrer and co-author Wendy Holden dispelled myths about the late actress in their biography,\u00a0Intimate Audrey: An Authorized Biography<\/a>. He wrote, “Despite decades of gossip that she had an eating disorder because she was so slim, she cooked and baked and ate what she liked but was careful with portions.”<\/p>\n

“She started most days with a boiled egg, toast and jam,” he added, which she’d then follow with a walk “at a punishing pace for those of us trailing behind.”<\/p>\n

He added that she would eat a salad or soup<\/a> for lunch as well as “a scoop of her favorite vanilla ice cream with maple syrup.”<\/p>\n

“Supper would be a single plate of pasta pomodoro and a salad,” he recalled. The Roman Holiday star also loved chocolate cake so much she created her own flourless recipe.<\/p>\n

\"Robert<\/p>\n

Robert Wolders and Audrey Hepburn attends a UNICEF press conference where Hepburn reported on three-day trip to drought-stricken areas of Ethiopia, at the UNICEF headquarters in New York City, New York, 23rd March 1988. (Photo by Vinnie Zuffante\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The star, who passed away in 1993, aged 63,<\/a> was not a fan of plastic surgery and left her face untouched. “Any suggestion of plastic surgery was anathema to her, as she honored the history of every line on her face,” Ferrer claimed.<\/p>\n

Her son remembered a time that photographer John Isaac captured Hepburn during a UNICEF trip and sent her the photos, offering to edit the star’s face. She replied, “Don’t you dare touch any one of those wrinkles; I earned every single one of them.”<\/p>\n

In an early ’70s edition of American\u00a0Vogue<\/a>, Hepburn broke down her wellbeing and beauty regimen, which included “eight or nine hours” of sleep to make her “completely happy”; personally washing her hair every “four or five days,” a preference for “pretty-smelling bath[s]” and minimal make-up.<\/p>\n

“I’ve never used much make-up. Only on my eyes, and I do them more or less as I always have\u2026 black liner and mascara, dark-brown eyebrow pencil\u2026 And I still use a very, very pale pink lipstick\u2026. No base\u2026 No foundation. It isn’t a question of wanting to look the same; I prefer an unmade-up look simply because it’s better for me,” the Sabrina star explained.<\/p>\n

This story was originally published by Parade<\/a> on Jul 25, 2026, where it first appeared in the News<\/a> section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Audrey Hepburn‘s eldest son,\u00a0Sean Hepburn Ferrer, has opened up about how his mother maintained her classic good looks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[56632,321,93,61,60,239950,174369,36868,239951],"class_list":["post-568635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-audrey-hepburn","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sean-hebburn-ferrer","tag-sean-hepburn-ferrer","tag-unicef","tag-wendy-holden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}