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Raquel Welch - A Sex Symbol Who Pioneered Strong Female Characters, Refused To Pose Nude And Honoured Motherhood
https://freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com/ ^ | 5th September, 2023, Chicago.time | Ozguy1945

Posted on 09/05/2023 3:39:12 PM PDT by Ozguy1945

Raquel Welch was both willing and reluctant to be an amazing sex symbol. I call that being human.

Jo Raquel Teqada was born on September 5th 1940,in Chicago, Illinois. She married her high school sweetheart James Welch in 1959. They had two children and divorced in 1962. She retained the surname through three other marriages till her death in February this year.

Her father was a Bolivian aeronautical engineer and her mother had English ancestry. Her cousin Lidia Teqada was the first female president of Bolivia and was what wikipedia calls "the second non-royal head of state in the americas." (Is America not part of the "americas"?)

Raquel Welch was a powerful sex symbol who broke the stereotype of the blonde bombshell and pioneered the playing of strong female characters. Playboy magazine placed her at number three on its list of the 100 sexiest women of the twentieth century. In 2016, she topped a Swimwear365 poll of the 50 hottest bikini babes of all time. She never posed nude not even in a 1979 shoot for Playboy. Hef didn't mind. She said nudity was against the way she was brought up.

Her own words distance her from her sex goddess status without totally rejecting it:

"My family was very conservative, and I had a traditional upbringing. I was not brought up to be a sex symbol, nor is it in my nature to be one. The fact that I became one is probably the loveliest, most glamorous and fortunate misunderstanding."

For her, mothers'love was more important than sex.

God Bless The Beauty And Honesty Of Raquel Welch.

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: raquelwelch; sexsymbol
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1 posted on 09/05/2023 3:39:12 PM PDT by Ozguy1945
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To: Ozguy1945

She didn’t need to pose nude or take her clothes off.

She was drop dead sexy in anything she wore.


2 posted on 09/05/2023 3:43:44 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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3 posted on 09/05/2023 3:44:20 PM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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To: Ozguy1945

I predict this thread will be very popular with the addition of pictures.


4 posted on 09/05/2023 3:44:35 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: Liz

That picture, to my eye anyway, is much sexier than any nude she could pose for.


5 posted on 09/05/2023 3:45:28 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Liz

Perfection.


6 posted on 09/05/2023 3:46:57 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Ozguy1945
My high school German teacher attended a Catholic grade school with Raquel Welch. My teacher was from Karlsruhe, Germany. Her father was killed in WW2 and an American soldier married her mom. They moved to the US after the war.
7 posted on 09/05/2023 3:50:48 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: dfwgator; Yo-Yo
Just as pretty all dressed up.


8 posted on 09/05/2023 3:52:34 PM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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To: Ozguy1945
She had her good points in addition to looks. But four marriages? That's not exactly a conservative lifestyle, whatever her beliefs or politics.
9 posted on 09/05/2023 3:52:34 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Ozguy1945

Never cared for Marilyn Monroe. But Raquel Welch! Oh yes!!!!!


10 posted on 09/05/2023 3:54:42 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: Ozguy1945
She became ultra attractive (at least, by my eye) in her 50’s and 60’s.
11 posted on 09/05/2023 3:56:35 PM PDT by llevrok (Whoever said “Crime Doesn't Pay” never met a Biden.)
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To: Ozguy1945

Why do they say that? There have been strong, smart female characters as long as there have been movies.


12 posted on 09/05/2023 3:59:27 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Angelino97

What about Rush ?


13 posted on 09/05/2023 4:00:57 PM PDT by al baby (I know its the way the measure the cooling capability )
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To: Ozguy1945

She did pose nude, or at least as nude as you could be in the 1960s. And then again a few decades later.


14 posted on 09/05/2023 4:01:23 PM PDT by poinq
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To: Ozguy1945

There’s a video clip from Laugh In on youtube featuring Raquel and “Gladys Ormsby” (Ruth Buzzi). One of the funniest skits Laugh In ever featured.


15 posted on 09/05/2023 4:02:38 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: BANANA REPUBLIC!)
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To: Ozguy1945

She didn’t move her arms when she danced.


16 posted on 09/05/2023 4:03:00 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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With Nancy Reagan at a 1985 WH state dinner.

17 posted on 09/05/2023 4:05:33 PM PDT by Liz (`)
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To: Ozguy1945

My brother (14 years older than me) had a pillowcase with Raquel’s face on it when I was a little kid. He was probably 19 at the time. The pillowcase was marketed as “Sleep with Raquel Welch”. He got it as a gift from one of my cousins or somebody.

I didn’t understand at the time, but now I definitely do. My mom was so straight-laced she could hardly turn her head, but she let it happen. My brother will turn 71 next week. I wonder if he still has that pillowcase.


18 posted on 09/05/2023 4:09:27 PM PDT by NorthWoody (Half of all people are below average, and half of those are in the bottom 25%.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Can’t find it. Got a link?


19 posted on 09/05/2023 4:12:07 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. PTL ~ Þ)
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To: Gay State Conservative

What a goddess she was!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iuN-rSI0MQ


20 posted on 09/05/2023 4:13:23 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (Let's Go Brandon!)
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