Sophia Loren is a proud grandmother to Lucia, Leonardo, Vittorio and Beatrice Audrey Schmidt is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has previously ...

A representative for the actress told PEOPLE they are "optimistic" about her recovery Kirsty Hatcher is an Associate Editor on the People.com Morning Team. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023.

1. Her first disc gave her hope in the years immediately after World War Two Sophia Loren was born in Rome in 1934 but her early life was spent in Pozzuoli, near Naples in southern Italy, with her ...