Jo Raquel Tejada (born September 5, 1940), better known as Raquel Welch, is an American actress, author and sex symbol. Welch came to attention as a "new-star" on the 20th Century-Fox lot in the mid-1960s. She posed iconically in a animal skin bikini for the British-release One Million Years B.C. (1966), for which she may be best known. She later starred in Bedazzled (1967), Bandolero! (1968), 100 Rifles (1969), and the box office failure Myra Breckinridge (1970). By the late-1970s, her movie career. Welch is a noticeable face of television commercials for Foster Grant sunglasses and reading glasses.
As a little girl, she wanted to be a performer. Her first love and ambition was ballet and took it from the age of seven until she was seventeen. She gave it up after her instructor told her that she did not have the proper body.[6] Raquel changed her family name to that of her first husband, James Welch, in 1959. While a student at La Jolla High School in 1958, she won the Fairest of the Fair beauty pageant at the San Diego County Fair.
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