Scroll To See More Images <?xml encoding="utf-8" ?> If you’ve followed her career for the past 60 years, you may be wondering how Raquel Welch died and what caused her death.
Welch—whose full name was Jo Raquel Tejada—was born on September 5, 1940, in Chicago, Illinois. She rose to prominence in the 1960s in movies like Fantastic Voyage, Bedazzled, Bandolreo!, 100 Rifles and One Million Years B.C., which she became known as an international sex symbol for due to the movie’s posters of her in a doe-skin bikini.
Welch went on to star in movies like Myra Breckinridge, Hannie Caulder and The Three Musketeers, which she won a Golden Globe Award for in the Best Motion Picture Actress in a Musical or Comedy in 1974.
She was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award in the Best Actress in Television Film category in 1987 for the movie Right to Die. 'Beyond the Cleavage' by Raquel Welch $11.30 Buy Now In an interview with The Los Angeles Times in 1986, Welch opened up about becoming known as a sex symbol and her struggles with the term. “Every time I left the theater, there would be a crowd of women waiting to ask me questions, such as: ‘What do you eat?,’ ‘What kind of exercises do you do?’ and ‘How do you look like that?,’” she said. “Well, I wasn’t about to stand there and explain my daily hour-and-a-half exercise routine or what I had for breakfast.” She continued, “Being a sex symbol was a tremendous responsibility and a constant battle.
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