Sophia Loren in 2022.Photo:Marco Piraccini/Archivio Marco Piraccini/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty
Marco Piraccini/Archivio Marco Piraccini/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty
Sophia Lorencontinues to make a recovery.
Nearly six weeks afterLoren fell, fracturing multiple bones including her femur and her hip, the actress’s manager Carlo Gusti tells PEOPLE “everything is going very well” as the 89-year-old Oscar winner heals.
Loren, who turned 89 on Sept. 20, didn’t seem to be slowing down just weeks before the accident.
On Sept. 2, she appeared “very lively,” at the Armani fashion show during the 80th Venice International Film Festival, according to Giuseppe Fantasia, an Italian journalist and critic who was also in attendance.
“You can tell she loves these events, she’s really happy at them," he told PEOPLE a few weeks later. “She carried herself extremely well. People were quite excited to see her. She was quite the pull.”
Another onlooker who saw theTwo Womenactress at the fashion show says the screen legend appeared “absolutely fine" and “probably had the biggest crowd around her at the show.” The source added, “She was absolutely surrounded, chatting to people, in very good form.”
News of Loren’s accident was initially shared on theInstagram page for her restaurant chain.
“A fall at her home in Geneva today caused Ms Loren hip fractures. Operated with a positive outcome, she will now have to observe a short period of recovery and follow a road to rehabilitation,” according to the post, roughly translated to English.
Sophia Loren in 2019.Steve Granitz/WireImage
Steve Granitz/WireImage
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“Thankfully everything worked out for the best and the Lady will be back with us very soon. The whole team at Sophia Loren Restaurant takes this opportunity to wish her a speedy recovery.”
Through the years, theMarriage Italian Stylestar has been candid in various interviews about growing older.
Four years later, she remarked toAARP: The Magazinethat she couldn’t believe she was nearing 90.
“When I look in the mirror, I cheer for myself. I don’t ask, ‘Are you great?’ or ‘Are you beautiful?’ No! It’s how I feel inside, how secure I am, how happy I am. That’s what matters,” she said.
source: people.com
