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  • The quote was attributed to Sophia Loren in an interview with LIFE magazine published on Aug. 11, 1961. However, in a New York Times interview dated Feb. 15, 2015, she dismissed it as "not true" and "completely made up." A statement repeatedly attributed to Italian film star Sophia Loren over the years ascribes her beauty to a diet of pasta. "Everything you see I owe to spaghetti," she is quoted as saying. The remark has made the internet rounds for years. This example was posted on X (archived) in celebration of Loren's 90th birthday on Sept. 20, 2024: (@TheDustinFitz / X) It's unclear whether she ever actually said this. The quote appeared many times in magazines and newspapers in the early 1960s — for example, in a syndicated Family Weekly feature by Peer J. Oppenheimer dated Nov. 10, 1963: While Sophia readily admits she is a bit overweight, it doesn't worry her. Another well-endowed Italian actress once remarked that Sophia had a neck like a giraffe. When told about it, Sophia smiled, "I like animals, don't you?" Another time, when cautioned about her love for spaghetti (which she likes to wash down with red wine), Sophia came back with, "Don't you know that everything you see I owe to spaghetti?" In some instances, stories like the one above attributed the quote to a LIFE magazine interview. This helped us find its original source, the Aug. 11, 1961, issue of LIFE, in which Dora Jane Hamblin reported that: She eats everything in sight, washed down with red wine, and when teased about her appetite narrows her eyes in her best temptress look, swivels her shoulders provocatively and says in a Mae West voice, "Everything you see, I owe to spaghetti." However, as etymologist Barry Popik blogged in 2017, Loren denied this 55 years later in a Feb. 15, 2015, interview with The New York Times, in which she was asked point blank if she said it: Did you actually say the quote frequently attributed to you, "Everything you see I owe to spaghetti"? Non è vero! It's not true! It's such a silly thing. I owe it to spaghetti, no, no. Completely made up. So, did Loren actually say it? Sadly, LIFE reporter Dora Jane Hamblin died in 1993, so we may never know the true answer to that question.
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