Edith Minturn Sedgwick Post (April 20, 1943 â€" November 16, 1971) was
an American actress and fashion model. She is best known for being one
of Andy Warhol's superstars. Sedgwick became known as "The Girl of the
Year" in 1965 after starring in several of Warhol's short films in the
1960s. She was dubbed an "It Girl", while Vogue magazine also named
her a "Youthquaker".Edie Sedgwick was born in Santa Barbara,
California, the seventh of eight children of Alice Delano de Forest
(1908â€"1988) and Francis Minturn Sedgwick (1904â€"1967), a rancher
and sculptor. She was named after her father's aunt, Edith Minturn
Stokes, who was famously painted with her husband, Isaac Newton Phelps
Stokes, by John Singer Sargent.Despite her family's wealth and high
social status, Sedgwick's early life was troubled. The Sedgwick
children were raised on the family's California ranches. Initially
schooled at home and cared for by nannies, their lives were rigidly
controlled by their parents. They were largely isolated from the
outside world, and it was instilled into them that they were superior
to most of their peers. It was within these familial and social
conditions that Sedgwick by her early teens developed an eating
disorder, settling into an early pattern of bingeing and purging. At
age 13 (the year her grandfather Henry Dwight Sedgwick died), Sedgwick
began boarding at the Branson School near San Francisco. According to
her older sister Alice "Saucie" Sedgwick, she was soon taken out of
the school because of the eating disorder. Her father severely
restricted her freedom when she returned home.
an American actress and fashion model. She is best known for being one
of Andy Warhol's superstars. Sedgwick became known as "The Girl of the
Year" in 1965 after starring in several of Warhol's short films in the
1960s. She was dubbed an "It Girl", while Vogue magazine also named
her a "Youthquaker".Edie Sedgwick was born in Santa Barbara,
California, the seventh of eight children of Alice Delano de Forest
(1908â€"1988) and Francis Minturn Sedgwick (1904â€"1967), a rancher
and sculptor. She was named after her father's aunt, Edith Minturn
Stokes, who was famously painted with her husband, Isaac Newton Phelps
Stokes, by John Singer Sargent.Despite her family's wealth and high
social status, Sedgwick's early life was troubled. The Sedgwick
children were raised on the family's California ranches. Initially
schooled at home and cared for by nannies, their lives were rigidly
controlled by their parents. They were largely isolated from the
outside world, and it was instilled into them that they were superior
to most of their peers. It was within these familial and social
conditions that Sedgwick by her early teens developed an eating
disorder, settling into an early pattern of bingeing and purging. At
age 13 (the year her grandfather Henry Dwight Sedgwick died), Sedgwick
began boarding at the Branson School near San Francisco. According to
her older sister Alice "Saucie" Sedgwick, she was soon taken out of
the school because of the eating disorder. Her father severely
restricted her freedom when she returned home.
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