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To celebrate her 80th birthday, Italy's film icon and eternal diva Sophia Loren inaugurated an autobiographical exhibit in Mexico City this week, revealing her rags to riches life.
The "Sophia Loren Mexico" exhibit traces the extraordinary rise to stardom of Loren, a poor teenager, discovered by a film producer who later married her and made her what one critic called Italy's greatest export after pasta.
Looking nowhere near the 80 years of age she will turn on September 20, Loren said she was moved by the exhibit which includes a number of items related to her film career.
"It's a really impressive thing to have so many elements linked with my career under the same ceiling; it's very moving," she said.
Loren, who grew up in Pozzuoli, a humble town near Naples, told journalists that, despite her chronological age, she still had plenty of life and ideas left.
"It's not a celebration of the past; it's the prologue of a very, very beautiful life that has given me a lot. I still need to work, enjoy, live. I woke up with lots of ideas and every morning I keep having ideas to move forward and I also want to share time with my family and friends. I'm a person full of life," she said.
Born Sofia Scicolone in Rome to a frustrated actress whose lover had refused to marry her, Loren was discovered by Carlo Ponti in a beauty contest in the early 1950s.
Ponti secured her first roles and was, for the rest of his life, the chief architect of her career. The couple was married for five decades until he died in 2007 at the age of 94.
The exhibit opens to the general public on September 22 at Mexico City's Soumaya Museum, owned by Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim who said he was grateful Loren had chosen to hold the exhibit in Mexico.
"Many thanks Sophia for choosing Mexico to show this exhibition you have collected for such a long time and have been able to showcase it at the Soumaya Museum. It's a great honour and pleasure," he said.
In conjunction with the exhibit, Mexico City's Cineteca Nacional will be showing Loren films from September 18 until September 22.
The actress won two Oscars, first in 1961 for her tragic portrayal of a wartime mother in De Sica's neo-realistic classic "La Ciociara" (Two Women) and the second, an honorary Oscar, in 1990.
Loren currently has a book out, "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow - My Life," which includes old photos and letters from icons such as Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Audrey Hepburn and Richard Burton.
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