Raquel Welch - How She Stays Young at 70+

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Always liked her, thought she was beautiful, and still is...

Now 70 and well past her one-dimensional sex symbol image, the iconic actress
has a lot to say about beauty—inside and out.

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March 2011
By Allan Richter

In her first starring role, Raquel Welch, then 26, played the cave girl Loana in the 1966 dinosaur epic “One Million Years B.C.” The film’s poster, showing Welch perched atop a rocky landscape and clad in a doeskin bikini, launched the fantasies of millions of men and cemented the actress’s sex symbol status.

Fast-forward four decades, and the photo of Welch on the cover of her 2010 book Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage (Weinstein Books) conveys an entirely different image. The face is still glowing and strikingly beautiful, but Welch is wearing a black dress that shadows any sense of curvature, save for her broad smile, round cheeks and Spanish eyes. A bit of shoulder is visible beneath tufts of shiny auburn hair.

In her book, out in paperback this month, Welch is part memoirist, part health guide helping readers defy the aging process and part cheerleader celebrating that very same process. She is highly attuned to her health and has worked hard to shed what she calls “the uncomfortable mantle of sex symbol,” though she sometimes still finds herself viewed through the prism of her iconic pin-up image. Yet, at 70, Welch is self-assured and radiates confidence.
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Read more: http://energytimes.com/pages/features/1103/raquel.html
 

The luck of the gene pool plays a big part too. Jayne Fonda doesn't scrub up all that wonderful for all her health regime.

Gillian McKeith TV Nutritionist and health guru. aged 50
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Nigella Lawson, cooks and eats real food. aged 50
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I rest my case.
 
It is all plastic surgery, Bottox and silicone! Why they not age with dignity?
I dont know if I could recognise her silicone boobs, with my medical social security dentures! :playful:
 

When my children were very small there was a lot of fuss about Marlene Dietrich who was said to be the world's most glamorous grand mother. She looked like she had formalin in her veins and that any facial expression might cause half of her features to crack and fall off.

I looked at my mum, all four foot ten and a half inches of home perm and home made clothes and compared her warmth and generosity to la Dietrich and I was so glad that she was my children's grandmother. Love makes us beautiful and she lived long enough to love and be loved by her grand children's children, all of whom rallied to her bed side at the end, oblivious to how she looked then.


I think the beauty industry is a huge confidence trick on women and girls. Sanity and freedom lies in thumbing our noses at it.
 
I always liked Raquel too, also Fonda, and yes they are beautiful...just have to remember that they have LOTS of help and thats one of their main concerns...looking beautiful.
 
Dina Eastwood was a local television reporter when ol' Clint married her. She was gorgeous. Back on the tube now and not looking so hot . . .
 
Warrigal said:
Seriously ?
Have you looked at all of the male reporters lately ?

It should be sufficient for them to scrub up OK for the cameras.
There's more to the job than their looks.
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Yeah the old guys can have bags under their eyes big enough to use for a weekend trip out of town and jowls and nobody seems to say a word about their old faces.

Who cares what they look like, older newcasters, but the women seemed to get raked over the coals more when they start showing their age.
 
Old Hipster said:
Yeah the old guys can have bags under their eyes big enough to use for a weekend trip out of town and jowls and nobody seems to say a word about their old faces.

Who cares what they look like, older newcasters, but the women seemed to get raked over the coals more when they start showing their age.
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So true. .. I don't think those double standards will ever change!
 
Warrigal said:
Seriously ?
Have you looked at all of the male reporters lately ?

It should be sufficient for them to scrub up OK for the cameras.
There's more to the job than their looks.
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What I'm trying to say is the years have played on her. Unfortunately on camera people are judged mostly by their plastic appearance. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm just trying to say how beautiful she was and I think being married to and now divorcing Clint has been rough on her. Sheesh! I'm giving her big credit for not going the surgery route.
 
As women get older they look "worn out".

As men mature they become "distinguished".

That's how it's always been seen and doubtless will be for quite some time. But don't worry - as soon as we run out of other First World problems to worry about we can address it with all the gravitas it deserves.
 
SifuPhil said:
As women get older they look "worn out".

As men mature they become "distinguished".

That's how it's always been seen and doubtless will be for quite some time. But don't worry - as soon as we run out of other First World problems to worry about we can address it with all the gravitas it deserves.
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:D ... that old "worn out", "tired" .. "take me to your plastic surgeon" look ... hehe ..
 

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