Raquel Welch

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[melfreya]

I didn't know Raquel had a thread here!
She is one of the most beautiful actresses of all time..stunning! can she be anymore perfect in this vid?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6DoIyFeLRg

 

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Scanned by sister-d @ bwgreyscale

 

[RoseMary]

Raquel Welch - Recent Candids (tlfan.to).

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Raquel is releasing her memoirs (dailymail.co.uk

Pin-up Raquel Welch was rejected by model agencies until she found fame as an actress

Modelling agencies 'hated' Raquel Welch's body when she first approached them for jobs, the legendary pin-up has revealed.

Miss Welch, now 69, said people branded her figure far from perfect after she moved to Los Angeles, California, in the early 1960s to try to make it as a movie star. 'When I tried to do some modelling after I first came to LA - just to get a job - they hated my body. Everything was wrong,' she told US talk show host Oprah Winfrey.

But the One Million Years B.C. star, who has penned a new autobiography entitled Beyond The Cleavage, said their view rapidly changed when she was thrust - somewhat reluctantly - into sex symbol status.

'I had no idea that was the path I was going to be going in when I started my career, because I wanted to be an actress,' she said. 'When I came to Hollywood I was actually the mother of two small children already and I wanted to be taken seriously. It wasn't common knowledge, it wasn't something I paraded around a lot.'

In fact, at the age of 18, she had married her high school sweetheart James Welch in 1959 - whom she would divorce five years later. And the couple's two children she kept quiet about as she tried to launch her career were Damon (born in 1960) and Tahnee (born in 1961).

Arriving in LA during the 'beach party craze' of the early 60s, she landed minor roles in films such as Elvis Presley's Roustabout (1964) and A Swingin' Summer (1965) before being catapulted to stardom with One Million Years B.C. in 1966.

Despite her good looks, Miss Welch told Oprah she did not feel like a sex symbol on a daily basis. Asked if she felt as good as she looked, she laughed: 'Barely. I'll have my mornings when I really like myself, but 90 per cent of the time it's "Oh my God". One of the reasons I look so good is that it takes me about three hours to get ready.'

But the film star, who was linked to a string of men in her heyday - including Elvis Presley, Dean Martin and Burt Bacharach - said she would urge women to feel comfortable with growing old. 'I want them to stop being scared of it, because it's just another chapter in life,' she said. 'I want to encourage them not to be disturbed and to really embrace it and go with it.'
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[misspistol]

Just saw a recent interview with her, wow. She actually looks even better now and she's 70!

 

[melfreya]

what a woman!! thanks for all the pics lady stardust!

 

[RoseMary]

Raquel Welch at Barnes & Noble

Promoting her New Book

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she looks great.

 

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(CNN) -- Margaret Sanger opened the first American family-planning clinic in 1916, and nothing would be the same again. Since then the growing proliferation of birth control methods has had an awesome effect on both sexes and led to a sea change in moral values.

And as I've grown older over the past five decades -- from 1960 to 2010 -- and lived through this revolutionary period in female sexuality, I've seen how it has altered American society -- for better or worse.

On the upside, by the early 60's The Pill had made it easier for a woman to choose to delay having children until after she established herself in a career. Nonetheless, for young women of childbearing age (I was one of them) there was a need for some careful soul searching -- and consideration about the long-range effects of oral contraceptives -- before addressing this very personal decision. It was a decision I too would have to face when I discovered I was pregnant at age 19.

Even though I was married to the baby's father, Jim Welch, I wasn't prepared for this development. It meant I would have to put my career ambitions on hold. But "the choice" was not mine alone to make. I had always wanted to have Jim's babies, but wasn't at all sure how he would react. At the time, we were 19-year-old newlyweds, struggling to make ends meet. But he was unflinching in his desire to keep our baby and his positive, upbeat attitude about the whole prospect turned everything around. I have always loved Jim for how he responded in that moment.

Continued: It's sex o'clock in America By Raquel Welch, Special to CNN May 7, 2010 8:19 p.m. EDT

 

[inhirnamy137]

She aged nicely, but she seemed to have that perfect hourglass figure

 

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Raquel at the 9th season finale of American Idol in Los Angeles (dailymail.co.uk

 

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And a vintage shot - Salvador Dali kisses Raquel's hand in 1965 (dailymail.co.uk

 

[marjanthelion]

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[marjanthelion]

is her wig trying to escape ?

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Vogue May 1973 (ebay.com/devocanada

 

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Harpers & Queen June 1969, shot by de Villeneuve (same source