Sophia Loren at 75

Beauty Queen
Born Sofia Scicolone, Loren once described her young self as "a scarecrow of a girl buried in poverty." By the age of 15, however, she had developed the attributes that would make her famous. Encouraged by her mother to enter a Naples beauty pageant, she won second place. Heartened by this success, mother and daughter decided to decamp to Rome, where they hoped to pursue careers in modeling and acting.

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