Familie/Ægtefælle/Partner: Henry Wheeler De Forest. Henry blev født i 1855; blev døbt den 8 jun. 1856 i New York, New York, New York, USA; døde i 1938. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Alice blev gift med Francis Minturn Sedgwick den 8 maj 1929 i New York, New York, New York, USA. Francis (søn af Henry Dwight Sedgwick, III og Sarah May Minturn) blev født den 13 mar. 1904 i New York, New York, USA; døde den 24 dec. 1976 i Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

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Edie Sedgwick was born in Santa Barbara, California, the seventh of eight children of Alice Delano de Forest (1908-1988) and Francis Minturn Sedgwick (1904-1967), a rancher and sculptor.[5] 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.[6]

Despite her family's wealth and high social status, Edie's early life was troubled.[7] 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.

All the Sedgwick children had conflicted relationships with their father (whom they called "Fuzzy"). By most accounts, he was narcissistic, emotionally remote, controlling, and frequently abusive. He also openly carried on affairs with other women. On one occasion, Edie walked in on him while he was having sex with one of his mistresses. She reacted with great surprise, but he claimed that she had imagined it, slapped her, and called a doctor to administer tranquilizers to her.[8] As an adult, Edie told people that he had attempted to molest her several times, beginning when she was seven.[7]

In 1958, her parents enrolled her at St. Timothy's School in Maryland. She was eventually taken out of the school due to an eating disorder that had progressed to anorexia.[9]

In the fall of 1962, at her father's insistence, Sedgwick was committed to the private psychiatric hospital Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, Connecticut. As the regime was very lax, Sedgwick easily manipulated the situation at Silver Hill, and her weight kept dropping. She was later sent to Bloomingdale, the Westchester County, New York division of the New York Hospital where her anorexia improved markedly. Around the time she left the hospital, she had a brief relationship with a Harvard student, became pregnant, and procured an abortion, citing her present psychological issues, with her mother's intervention.[10]

In the fall of 1963, Sedgwick moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts and began studying sculpture with her cousin, artist Lily Saarinen. Saarinen said of her cousin Sedgwick, "She was very insecure about men, though all the men loved her."[11][12] During this period, she partied with members of an elite bohemian fringe of the Harvard social scene, which included many gay men.

Sedgwick was deeply affected by the loss of her older brothers, Francis Jr. (known as "Minty") and Robert (known as "Bobby"), who died within 18 months of each other. Francis Sedgwick, who had a particularly unhappy relationship with their father, suffered several breakdowns, eventually committing suicide in 1964 while committed at Silver Hill Hospital. Her second oldest brother, Robert, also suffered from mental health problems and died when his motorcycle crashed into the side of a New York City bus on New Year's Eve 1965.

Edith blev gift med Michael B. Post den 24 jul. 1971 i Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]