Edie Sedgwick Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Edie Sedgwick Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

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.
Edie Sedgwick Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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