Sophia Loren I was born in 1934, raised by a single mother who had my sister and me out of wedlock.My father was nowhere to be found.
We lived in a tiny house with my grandmother, mother, and uncles. Growing up in war-torn Italy, it wasn’t so much the bombings, the hunger or the general sense of chaos that truly upset my sister and me, we were just children after all.
It was the jeers from the other kids at school, the disapproving looks from the adults in the street; we were laughed at, bullied and shunned because my mother was not married.Our mother was called every name under the sun and “whore” was the tamest one.
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