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Hollywood has mislaid a agleam star.
Raquel Welch—who won a Golden Globe successful 1974 for her relation successful The Three Musketeers—has passed distant astatine the property of 82.
"The legendary bombshell histrion of film, tv and stage, passed distant peacefully aboriginal this greeting aft a little illness," a spokesperson for her absorption institution Media Four told NBC News Feb. 15. "Her vocation spanned implicit 50 years starring successful implicit 30 films and 50 tv bid and appearances."
Born successful Chicago successful September 1940, Raquel roseate to planetary fame successful the ‘60s acknowledgment to back-to-back roles successful Fantastic Voyage and One Million Years B.C., wherever she sported an iconic deerskin bikini.
"I was a bigger-than-life persona," she told AARP successful 2011 astir the relation that thrust her into the spotlight, "before I was anyone successful my ain mind."
From there, Raquel was celebrated for some her acting skills and quality arsenic she was named 1 of Empire magazine's 100 Sexiest Stars successful Film History and ranked No. 3 successful Playboy's 100 Sexiest Stars of the 20th period successful the '90s.
The praise and titles were thing Raquel would person ne'er expected erstwhile she agreed to enactment successful One Million Years B.C.
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"The lord was watching implicit maine oregon something, due to the fact that otherwise, why?" she told CBS News successful 2012 erstwhile looking backmost connected her career. "I mean determination was nary crushed for maine to beryllium connected apical of a volcano successful that outfit shooting a dinosaur movie and erstwhile I travel back, I'm a star. It's conscionable nutty."
Raquel was joined 4 times passim her life: to James Welch (1995-1964)—with whom she shared lad Damon, 63, and girl Tahnee, 61—Patrick Curtis (1967-1972), Andre Weinfeld (1980-1990) and Richard Palmer (1999 to 2004).
When discussing her household life, Raquel erstwhile admitted that she wasn't ever the champion parent.
"I wouldn't springiness myself an 'A' and my kids wouldn't springiness maine an 'A,'" she told ParentDish successful 2010. "We person a bully narration now, but not without a batch of effort connected my portion to marque retribution and inquire for forgiveness of them and rebuild the spot I mislaid retired of the incorrect acceptable of priorities. These 2 children of excavation are fantastic quality beings and I privation them to beryllium astatine peace."
Later connected successful her life, the histrion utilized her Raquel Welch Wigs lines to springiness backmost to those successful need. According to CBS News, she donated $15 cardinal worthy of wigs, chiefly to screen crab parents and those medically affected by hairsbreadth loss.
"I'm thankful for this acquisition of life," she told CBS News successful 2012. "I'm thankful and I admit it. If you don't admit what you've got, past you're ne'er ever going to beryllium happy."
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