This Is How Much Sophia Loren Is Actually Worth

Some people are born into wealth, handed a fortune before they're even able to walk. That wasn't the case with Sophia Loren, and she's described her childhood in war-torn Italy in heartbreaking terms (via The Indian Express): "Hunger was the major theme of my childhood. My mother was begging for food for us. She'd bring

Some people are born into wealth, handed a fortune before they're even able to walk. That wasn't the case with Sophia Loren, and she's described her childhood in war-torn Italy in heartbreaking terms (via The Indian Express): "Hunger was the major theme of my childhood. My mother was begging for food for us. She'd bring us back a potato, a fistful of rice."

Loren was born in a charity hospital in Rome, says Vogue, and according to Italy Segreta, she ultimately grew up in the little town of Pozzuoli. It was there that she, her mother, sister (pictured, with Loren), and her extended family lived in a small flat, sleeping nine to a bedroom: Loren, Time says, shared a bed with an aunt and two grandparents. Always a quiet child, she was often ridiculed for her figure and given a nickname based on it: Stecchetto, or Little Stick.

Things started to change when she was 14, and she started to develop into an adult. It was then that she started entering — and winning — beauty pageants, and got her first job modeling for magazines called fumetti, which were essentially live-action comic books. All the while, she visited the town's movie houses. She had once taken shelter there during the bombing raids of World War II, they also exposed her to something just as valuable as safety — a vision for her future. Then, in 1950, she took the money she won from a beauty pageant and headed to Rome to become a star.

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