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The great Italian film actress Sophia Loren, now 88, whose name, during her heyday, rarely appeared in headlines without the descriptor sex symbol, allegedly once said, Everything you see I owe to spaghetti. The quote frequently makes the rounds on social media: (Twitter screenshot) It's unclear whether she actually said this or not. 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: 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: 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: So, did Loren really say this or not? Sadly, LIFE reporter Dora Jane Hamblin died in 1993, so we may never know the true answer to that question.
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