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.

Guess the Celebrity: Only People With Perfect Facial Recognition Can Nail This Quiz

Celebrities are everywhere: on TV, magazines, billboards and all across our social media feeds. So, in theory, recognizing them should be pretty easy, especially because some have a very distinctive appearance. We decided to put that to the test by seeing if you can guess the celebrity just by one facial feature. If you’re good at remembering faces, you might just nail this!

Don’t forget to click on each image to reveal the answers.

1. Whose lips are these?

2. Whose eyes are these?

3. Whose beauty mark is this?

4. Whose nose is this?

5. Whose hairline is this?

6. Whose cheeks are these?

7. Whose jawline is this?

8. Whose eyes are these?

9. Whose ear is this?

10. Whose eyebrows are these?

It’s healthy to stimulate your mind with different exercises. With these two simple tests here, you’ll be able to see if your brain is doing well. Check them out!