The actress who was forever immortalized after her starring role in “One Million Years B.C.” was also a health and fitness guru before passing away at age 82.
Raquel Welch has died, according to her son, Damon Welch. The Golden Globe-winning actress and businesswoman was 82. Throughout her career, Welch set herself apart from a previous generation of submissive sex symbols with striking roles in projects such as. Her look, both on and off-screen, also came to define the beauty ideals of the late 1960s and 1970s.
Welch was born in 1940 in Chicago, moving with her family to San Diego when she was two years old. Welch described her childhood as “grim,” colored by a domineering father who subjected her mother to physical and verbal attacks. They divorced when Welch was in her teens. At 18, Welch married her high school boyfriend, James Welch. They had two children, Damon and Tahnee. Between working as a weather girl for the local news station and raising her young family, Welch began taking acting classes. Five years later, her marriage broke down and, after a brief period working as a model and cocktail waitress in Dallas, she ended up in Hollywood.
that made her a star—although she was better known for her looks than for her acting. The film was eclipsed by its own poster, which showed Welch’s cavewoman character in a deer-skin bikini standing defiantly on a mountain summit. The tough and sultry image made her a new kind of sex symbol.In the years that followed, Welch became known for her big hair, glowing skin, sharp Yves Saint Laurent trouser suits, and plunging evening wear by the likes of Loris Azzaro and Roy Halston.
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