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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She didn’t need to pose nude or take her clothes off.
She was drop dead sexy in anything she wore.
I predict this thread will be very popular with the addition of pictures.
That picture, to my eye anyway, is much sexier than any nude she could pose for.
Perfection.
Never cared for Marilyn Monroe. But Raquel Welch! Oh yes!!!!!
Why do they say that? There have been strong, smart female characters as long as there have been movies.
What about Rush ?
She did pose nude, or at least as nude as you could be in the 1960s. And then again a few decades later.
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.
She didn’t move her arms when she danced.
With Nancy Reagan at a 1985 WH state dinner.
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.
Can’t find it. Got a link?
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