As Audrey Hepburn’s birthday is just past, we figured it was high time we paid our respects to one of Hollywood’s most endearing sweethearts. Here, we’ve gathered up some of the things you might not know about her, from what her life was like during the Second World War to how she persevered to become a mother. She was a legend, a hero, and a knockout; this is All About Audrey Hepburn.

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7. Leading Men
It’s no secret that many people think that Hepburn’s movies are incredible, and for her time, they were some of the greatest. One thing not many people know about is the gaps in age between her and her costars—the leading men in the pictures she starred in. In her second film, Sabrina, her costar, Humphrey Bogart, was 29 years older than her. Fred Astaire, who starred opposite Hepburn in Funny Face was also 29 years older. Cary Grant, the actor who starred with her in Charade, was 25 years older. She was just a young girl playing with the big boys, and she absolutely held her own.

6. John F. Kennedy
It may come as no surprise that, at one point, Audrey Hepburn and John F. Kennedy were dating. He was a handsome senator just days shy of being 12 years her senior, and she was a young, beautiful, movie star. Sounds like a match made in heaven, right? Well, the two ended up breaking it off, but they remained friends. In fact, in 1963, just one year after Marilyn Monroe’s famous singing of “Happy Birthday” to the then president, Hepburn was next in line to sing it to JFK. She did, in a much less sensual way, and at a private party, so there are no recordings of her serenading her ex. Then, when he was assassinated, Hepburn was devastated and actually informed the cast of My Fair Lady, the movie she was in the midst of filming.

5. Givenchy
You might already know that Audrey Hepburn and Hubert de Givenchy were lifelong friends after meeting and that they were extremely close. But, did you know that Givenchy was actually disappointed the first time he met her? Audrey Hepburn! It was all a misunderstanding on Givenchy’s part, as he heard the name Hepburn and assumed that Katherine Hepburn would be who he’d be meeting with. He was hired to design Audrey’s wardrobe for Sabrina, which was just her second film, so of course he might be a little disappointed; he was expecting a star, not some soon to be up-and-coming nobody! Givenchy even made a special perfume just for Hepburn in the 1950s, and it became available to the public a few years later. It is called L’interdit, which means “forbidden” in French. As we said, they became lifelong friends, and she became his muse; it’s like they were meant to be.

4. For the Love of Pearls
They say that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but who they are, we don’t know; what we do know is that diamonds weren’t Audrey Hepburn’s best friend. Instead, she preferred pearls to diamonds and her first husband, Mel Ferrer, gave her her favorite pearl necklace of all! Even though diamonds weren’t her favorite, she did get to wear the Tiffany Diamond on a necklace for the promo pictures for Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and, at the time, she was only the second person to have worn it.

3. Some Pretty Flowers
Now, flowers are something she did care for, and good thing, because she’s got a few that are named after her. You know you’ve really made it when people start naming things like flowers after you! There’s a breed of roses, a breed of tulips, and a breed of daylilies named after her, but we only have a picture of the rose! It makes sense that she was into flowers, though, as she loved gardening, and when she got older, she even hosted a PBS show called Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn.

2. UNICEF
Audrey Hepburn was fond of the organization known as UNICEF, which is now known as the United Nations Children’s Fund, but once stood for United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund. They had helped her family out following the Second World War with medical relief and food, and she grew quite fond of them throughout the years. In 1988, she took on the role of an ambassador for the organization, and she had donated to them since 1954. Hepburn even went so far as to give her earnings from her three last projects to the organization, and in 1992, for her work as an ambassador, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from George H.W. Bush.

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