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Poor, scrawny, rich Twiggy. Last week it was one Professor Rupprecht Bernbeck, a Hamburg orthopedist, who viewed with alarm the 17-year-old cockney dowsing rod, opined that "practically everything is wrong with her-she has a humpback, exaggerated curvature of the spine and a hanging abdomen," all leading inevitably to "pains in the loins and the hips." Nothing would help old Twig, he added, except maybe swimming or "crawling around on all fours for ten minutes each morning and evening." Whereupon Mrs. Nell Hornby, Twiggy's mother, spoke up: "What a load of rubbish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 7, 1967 | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

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