"I am here for visual effects, and I have two of them."
"My body is the shape I live in and it shapes the way I live."
"For a woman to be considered a celebrated beauty is not exactly a bad thing. I think we have to say that in all reality."
"You know what's the sexiest thing of all? A little mystery."
Scary. Another well-loved icon turns 80 years old today: Miss Raquel Welch, crowned "sex symbol" of the 1970s, chat show favourite, actress, singer, model, fitness guru, "Celebrity Royalty" - and purveyor of her own brand of wigs (indeed)...
Never one to take herself entirely seriously, here are just a few of her campest moments...
Many happy returns, Raquel Welch (born Jo Raquel Tejada, 5th September 1940)
[More Raquel here, here, here, here, here and here]
Fascinating woman. xo
ReplyDeleteThere's a lot more to her that just tits and hair! Even her autobiography was titled Beyond the Cleavage... Jx
DeleteIt's Lillian Lust, the Babe with the Bust.
ReplyDeleteFathom is a fun film too
So many of her most famous films - including One Million Years B.C., Bedazzled, The Three Musketeers and even Fathom were largely produced in the UK... Jx
DeleteI actually thought she was British, as a child, probably because I'd only heard the name Raquel in Only Fools and Horses
ReplyDeleteYou are a nobody until you have appeared with the divine 'Miss Piggy'
ReplyDeleteIt was a pinnacle in Miss Welch's career! Jx
DeleteSurely she had two pinnacles?
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Very proud of them she was, too... Jx
DeleteGood one, Scarlet!
ReplyDeleteA lot more smart brain than some of the current set.
Agreed - more talent and chutzpah than all the Kardashians, Pussycat Dolls, Desperate Housewives, "reality TV stars" or painted-on-eyebrows popstrels put together. Jx
DeleteIf there's one song written by someone who hated women it's "Doncha" by the Pussycat Dolls
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