Audrey Hepburn

She has been considered one of the most beautiful women of all time. The styles that she embodied continue to be popular among women today.

Still, Audrey Hepburn did not place much value in fashion. Nor did she consider herself very attractive. In a 1959 interview, she admitted to having "underlying feelings of insecurity and inferiority." "I couldn't conquer these feelings by acting indecisive. I found the only way to get the better of them was by adopting a forceful, concentrated drive."

After her final film role in 1988, Hepburn harnessed that drive as she was appointed a goodwill ambassador to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), a role that she embraced. Over the next four years, she traveled to Ethiopia, Turkey, Venezuela, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Sudan, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Somalia, helping deliver critical aid and medical assistance to some of the most impoverished children in the world.

After her death in early 1993, a UN photographer said, "Often the kids would have flies all over them, but she would just go hug them. I had never seen that. Other people had a certain amount of hesitation, but she would just grab them. Children would just come up to hold her hand, touch her – she was like the Pied Piper."

Oscar winner and fashion icon, yes. But Audrey Hepburn proved to us all that there is so much more that we can contribute to this world.

Beautiful.