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Raquel Welch and Joe Namath arriving at the 44th Annual Academy Awards 1972

Raquel Welch at a Rome party promoting her upcoming movie "The Biggest Bundle of Them All"/1966

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Raquel Welch, Reluctant Sex Symbol,Talks About Making Amends With Her Kids

by Susan Avery

May 12th 2010 6:30PM

Raquel Welch says her kids, daughter Tahnee, left, and Damon, right, wouldn't give her an 'A' in parenting. Neither would she. Credit: DMI/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images

When you think Raquel Welch, you don't think mom. Well, maybe MILF, but only to those who are aware that she left her husband as a young mother in 1963 and took her two kids with her to Hollywood to become a star. What she became -- a worldwide sex symbol -- was not what she intended. And neglecting her young kids in order to pursue fame, was also not part of the plan.

She stayed silent on the topic for years, preferring to maintain her image as an untouched bombshell. In private, she says, she suffered.

This year, the woman who left men of the 1960s panting, is turning 70. And, after years of keeping her breasts out front and her personal life under wraps, she's written a tell-all, Beyond the Cleavage, about her beginnings, which includes a father who played emotional hide-and-seek with his daughter, her current man-crush and how sex is overrated. An edited version of an interview with the actress follows.

ParentDish: Gotta start with the obvious. When you set out, did you think, "I want to be America's sex symbol?"

Raquel Welch: Sex symbol was not my plan. Things don't always turn out the way you plan. I thought I would develop myself into a serious actress, but the studio system was in demise back then. There had been a star-making machine but that didn't exist when I got to Hollywood.

PD: But you became a star.

RW: People responded to me on a very surface level and that's the direction I took. I'm not going to complain about it; I wouldn't have had the career I had. Ginger Rogers, Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe, they were actresses that I loved from that era. But by the time I came along, the whole profession changed radically.

PD: You sound disappointed.

RW: There was disappointment. I was confused by it. I saw that my image was gathering momentum and there was very little I could do to stop it. I was trying very hard to convince people at the studio that I had more to offer than that, but it just would not take. Movie studios don't care about your own personal ambitions. It's a business. TV today has more of a vested interest in actors and people have more chance to build continuity with their audience who will react to them as total people rather than a physical type.

Beyond the Cleavage. Credit: Weinstein Books

PD: In your book you also talk about personal disappointments.You say that your breakup with Jim, when you picked up and moved to LA for your career, was the most painful decision of your life. Your exact quote is: "For our children's sake, I should have stayed. The damage I did to my children and Jim taking off as I did is immeasurable... I have no defense for my foolishness, except to say that I was young and pigheaded..."

RW: In retrospect it's one of those terrible Catch 22s. In my opinion, at my advanced age, our lives are not meant to be lived for our own gratification and enjoyment. It's for other people and your family. When you have children and a man, you have this obligation to other people and it's a difficult dance to carry on.

PD: Does anyone in Hollywood do the balance well?

RW: Jennifer Garner. She has a couple of children, but she took time to have those children and provide for her children on the sets she works on. That didn't exist in my day and age. I'm very encouraged by these role models, like Jennifer and Reese Witherspoon, talented women in all areas. They want to do what's right for their children.

PD: From your vantage point, what are today's parents doing wrong for their children?

RW: A two-parent family is the ideal. My mother made sacrifices and I am eternally grateful for that. Even though my father was domineering, I wouldn't have the sense of self I have today, holding myself to a certain standard. Growing up in the '40s and '50s, we wanted our parents to be proud of us. Their role wasn't about being pals; you did what you were told and you wanted to please them. I think girls want to please their father. For me, it wasn't an unconditional love, it was conditional with my father. If I performed perfectly with a capital P then I got his love and approval. Contemporary young girls are missing that. They don't have a father who says, 'You don't do it that way, you're not going to be wearing those clothes, you're going to apply yourself.' The male had an authoritative voice in those early years. That's one of the things that my daughter didn't have with her own daddy. She was never the apple-of-his-eye on a daily basis. I knew when I was pleasing my father and this is terribly important.

PD: If you could go back in time, how would you do it differently?

RW: I might have provided more visitation and a closer proximity to the father and not have this idea that I needed to run away.

PD: That's very honest of you.

RW: I am very harsh with myself about it. I wouldn't give myself an 'A' and my kids wouldn't give me an 'A.' We have a good relationship now, but not without a lot of effort on my part to make retribution and ask for forgiveness of them and rebuild the trust I lost out of the wrong set of priorities. These two children of mine are fantastic human beings and I want them to be at peace. I think if you have parents that you don't forgive -- I forgave my father -- you're carrying around resentment and anger. It's a poison in your system and it will be directed at your own self, and you're going to get sick. I wanted to heal the hurts and the wounds that I many have been inadvertently responsible for.

PD: What do you think of today's young people?

RW: Not that I want censorship, but now with the internet it's not The New York Times' all the news that's fit to print. It's every darn thing. It's too much exposure to all things in existence on the planet. Where do you find equilibrium in that? Their attention span is shorter and shorter and they are very glib. If everything is on top of you all the time you don't see the forest through the trees. There's no music there.

PD: Any solutions?

RW: We used to respect our teachers and there were dress codes. People behaved themselves. There was hell to pay if you acted up in the classroom. You didn't get away with stuff. Are we raising a group of little animals out there? You're supposed to be nice to your fellow human beings. The human condition is wrought with pain and difficulty, and being civil is rule number one. I don't know how these kids are getting away with it after being rotten to people. I'm surprised at the meanness. They behave like a bunch of gluttonous sloths, a bunch of wild animals, and they end up on Jerry Springer.

PD: What do you do to keep the equilibrium and find peace?

RW: I'm very fortunate that I started studying yoga in my late 30s, which lead me in my 50s to touch base with my mother's faith. I was raised as a Presbyterian girl. I was coming into my heyday in the '60s, with drugs, promiscuous sex happening. Here I'm a sex symbol but I've never gotten into substance abuse, or became a sex addict because I had that sense that there were boundaries. That kept me sane and healthy all this time. There was an invisible compass in my head, a sense of decency that relates to my mother. I liked the feeling of doing something that was good and right.

PD: Tell me about the search for faith.

RW: I went on a quest for a church for a couple of years. I considered myself a Christian when I was growing up, although I fell away from it. It came very late in life and I hit a brick wall. I tried Buddhism, Hindi and this and that and I said, 'just stop it.' I found a renewed faith in a higher power and in certain precepts of behavior that lead to a happier existence. In my later years I needed to connect with that.

PD: What precipitated the search?

RW: When my mother passed away at 93, she was on husband number three, who was 13 years younger than she was. Her children, all there, gathered around. I thought, 'I've got to look at this more closely' and I went back to bible study.

PD: So, would we ever run into you at church?

RW: I am a very happy, God-fearing person who goes to church every Sunday. I've met the most lovely people there who have nothing to do with show business.

PD: How has your renewed faith changed you?

RW: I'm more open to other people, I'm more humble, more giving, more outgoing and happier with my age and my lot in life because I believe in something bigger than me. It started to be self, self, self, self, self. Actresses are big offenders of being self-involved. The Raquel in that poster is not me. I played her, but that's not me.

PD: Who is Raquel Welch today?

RW: Well, I watch more than my share of reality TV because I'm fascinated with the human condition. Housewives of New York, New Jersey, Orange County. And I have to watch Simon Cowell. As much as I like Ellen, I miss Paula's ditzy quality. Why does everyone have to be so tightly wrapped? If you can just watch people be themselves on camera, who needs actors?

PD: So you're plugged into what's on TV. What else are you watching these days?

RW: 9 by Design. I am transfixed by that show. What a fabulous earth mother she is, and the guy is a sweetheart. I've never seen her blow her top and I love to see them go moment to moment. They seem to thrive on spontaneity, on making art out of chaos.

PD: What about you on Dancing with the Stars?

RW: They've asked me a number of times, but I just don't know that I could do that grueling routine and make a commitment to that. I don't want to be the over-the-hill sex symbol on the floor.

PD: That's a shame. You would be great.

RW: How do you know?

PD: Just a feeling. Having replaced Lauren Bacall and, later, Julie Andrews in big Broadway musicals -- Woman of the Year and Victor/Victoria, respectively -- isn't it time for you to star in your own Broadway show?

RW: Yes, I wouldn't mind, but I'm not so interested in the starring part. I love theater because the live audience is so special. I had always wanted to be in musical theater and never got a chance in the '60s, so it was great for me to do those things. I'm no Julie Andrews and it's hard to do eight shows a week. Coming up on 70 now, I personally don't have that physical stamina. I would like to do an ensemble comedy, having fun and entertaining people. I would just as soon not have to carry the darn thing. I'm happy to share and I'd be happy to be on the boards again.

PD: Well, you're in cardboard now. What was it like for you to write a book?

RW: I went on the computer and wrote. It was a supercharged experience, but it was also kind of gnarly and hunkered down. I tore my rotator cuff because of the way I was dropping my body over the keys. You have a high adrenaline rush as a writer, addicted to this keyboard, and when you come up you just have hell to pay because you hunkered down into this thing. I started wearing a harness to pull my shoulders back because I'm very broad-shouldered. I even laid down on a slanted pillow. I don't know how Shakespeare did it.

PD: In the book, you give hints as to the famous men in your life – Elvis, Sinatra, Dylan, Burt Reynolds, Richard Burton -- but you never end up with a big reveal.

RW: I'm not going to betray a confidence. No, that's it. Exactly what I wrote there is it. It was supposed to be a fun thing. I've been called a tease.

PD: Oh, c'mon. Give us something.

RW: All that glitters isn't gold is a cliché, but it's true. It's all just another fantasy. I'm just another Jane out there.

PD: Fine. Then at least tell us about the Hollywood men you admire today?

RW: You're gonna die. I think Alec Baldwin is the bomb. He's very good company, quick-witted and very funny and personable. I think he's coming into his own now. I think he's great, very masculine, which I like. I don't agree with his politics, which is okay, but he's a formidable actor. My sister thinks I'm crazed. Tom Hanks is wonderful, of course. I love Jack Nicholson and Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery.

PD: And the women?

RW: Sandra Bullock, I love her and God bless her, I wish that the media thing would not make a spectator sport of her personal life. That's what Woman of the Year was about. TV journalist at the top her game and the husband doesn't show up because she was too much and he walked out. It happens to women all the time. It's a bitter pill.

PD: You say in the book, "Frankly, in marriage, sex really isn't the glue that holds everything together. Sex, in my opinion, is overrated and constantly hyped far beyond what it can deliver."

RW: Sex is being held up for the new generation as the be all and end all. It's supposed to be an expression of your regard for someone. It's in our faces every waking minute. We worship sex, but for most people it doesn't take that long. It has its place, but it's just too prevalent. I know I sound like a prude, but can't we have cheerleaders that don't do spread eagle and grinding? Britney Spears would remember that she was a lot more happening when she wasn't pushing it. I did some of it myself and at some point it wasn't productive.

The poster that took Raquel Welch into the popularity stratosphere. Credit: Mary Evans/Ronald Grant/Everett Collection

PD: The famous poster from One Million Years B.C. was the vision of sex in the '60s.

RW: The poster isn't all that prurient. It was nice and athletic, but I tell you, there are times when I think, 'oh gosh, that was not a good moment for me.' But in a way, comparatively speaking, I think I was fairly pristine. I was not into all of that sexual explicitness on camera. Do we really have to go so far where nothing is happening unless we're getting graphic? Can't we use our imagination anymore? A woman is wonderful thing. We are a real prize to be won. It's not an easy role to play, but a beautiful and powerful one.

Marina Galperina contributed to the research on this story.

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Raquel Welch Takes on Porn Culture, Feminist Snobs

By Nicki Gostin Posted Apr 27th 2011 10:29PM

Raquel Welch is a lot more than a voluptuous beauty in a furry bikini. The former pinup is a thoughtful, intelligent woman who holds surprisingly conservative views on sex, women and the current state of our culture. 'Beyond the Cleavage,' which recently came out in paperback, is part memoir part advice tome -- in it, the 70-year-old sex symbol discusses her iconic movies ('One Million Years B.C.' and 'The Three Musketeers' for starters) and is also incredibly honest about her shortcomings as a mother.

Words aren't minced in PopEater's chat with Welch, who acknowledges her children paid a hefty price for her career choices and laments the "vulgar approach to women today" in society. She says, "I think there's too much homage being paid to pole dancers, let's put it that way." She also talks about about being shunned by the feminist community in the '70s ("They didn't consider me worthy") and the humility that her Christian faith has brought to her.

I was sort of surprised to read how conservative your views are on sexuality and relationships.

Yes, I am. I guess you could call it conservative. I think there is a lost art to being a woman. I was very fortunate to be born when I was because I was able to experience so much of what happened in the cultural revolution of the 60's and how women got a lot more social and economic freedom and were able to really pursue a profession without being considered strange and you could also attempt at least to have children and it was very ambitious. I thought that was all great in theory but I lived some of that and I made some of those mistakes and fell prey to some of those pitfalls. Now I'm old enough to look back and see the attitudes that I see today I find we haven't moved ahead 100%. We made some strides as women but we've also lost something in translation.

It's not like I feel I'm perfect in any way. In fact it's the opposite because of my mistakes. Like having children very early and getting swept up in romantic ideals and physical attraction to my first husband. I mean I was desperately in love with him but we couldn't make a life together but I already had two children in tow and I couldn't stop myself from wanting to pursue a career and I felt like if I didn't I would carry a resentment my whole life for not having followed my impulses.

That's a common thing. Success had to come with great sacrifices.

Later I had to acknowledge that there was a price to pay that not only I had to pay but my children had to pay and that was a bitter pill when it came along. I had to realize I had a lot of making retribution and making things better and healing old wounds and compensating in a sense and trying to make some of this stuff right because I simply wasn't there many times when those little children needed me. But I told myself at the time that I was being a creature of that period that I was doing exactly what a woman of my day did.

So, do you think a woman can have it all?

I don't think anyone can have it all.

I meant a career and family. I know it's sexist because a man never gets asked that question.

I'm not really sure that you can. Those women who have better success at it usually when their children are very young, they take a sabbatical from their career and devote that time to bonding and then that carries it through perhaps to the next stage. I never did that. I think there is this other problem that comes up when the mother is bigger than life. I think it does create all kinds of reactions in your son and daughter. It throws their life off a little bit.

You write about your romantic nature.

I have this romantic part to my nature and maybe that's why I find it difficult when I see this kind of vulgar approach to women today. I think there's too much homage being paid to pole dancers, let's put it that way.

That's perfect!

I mean I'm all for body beautiful but my God there's a head attached. Can we use that too? Come on girls!

You say sex is not the whole enchilada.

Yeah, that's what I feel. I think sex is held up too much. Last night I couldn't fall asleep and I turned on the TV and found 'Peyton Place.' I'm looking at this thing and of course their comment was that people were too repressed and to an extent yeah you could say that. But out of this apparently horrific repression came Elvis, Marilyn, Jimmy Dean, Marlon Brando. I guess somewhere ...

Repression works!

Yeah, maybe. It really doesn't kill your libido let's put it that way or kill your sensuality. I think if anything nowadays, everybody has OD'd on porn. I was talking to my trainer this morning and I said I don't know, do all these girls strip their ZZ bare? I mean they're all busy waxing everything off.

I think it's to make them look like little girls.

That and the standard is set by porn because that's what all the porn stars do. Everyone is steeped in porn. Does every housewife have to look like some apparition? It's all gotten so superficial. I'm sitting here talking to you with my New Balance sneakers on, work out pants and a sweatshirt and no makeup. I don't put myself together everyday like that. It's nonsense and yet that's what people are holding out for.

You were a little miffed at the feminist movement in the early 70's.

It was very clear that they didn't like me. They didn't consider me worthy. They dismissed me as a sex object and they felt they knew all about me and my life. I thought isn't that interesting because I felt like I had struggled pretty hard. I had gone out on my own with no connections, no financial backing with my two kids in tow and I managed to make my way and they couldn't know any of that but they weren't looking very closely. I guess at that time with the image I had I could understand it but I didn't love the idea that women love to look down their nose at other women. I guess we are all uncharitable to others when we're making judgments. That may be part of human nature but I don't know what I would do without my women friends, the world would be a bleak place. I think we should try and be a little more charitable to each other and try to be a little more understanding. It isn't a cakewalk to be born female yet it can be so glorious, so entertaining and so exciting.

Was there a movie where you weren't pressured to take your clothes off?

I know! Yeah there was a lot of that. I felt like I was born in the wrong time. What about all the heat that used to come off all those black and white films? I never saw Marilyn nude in a film, maybe the last one that nobody saw. I think it was kind of more interesting.

Ever look at the poster from 'One Million Years B.C.' and say, 'Wow look at that girl!'

It does sort of make me smile because of course I don't feel like her. There was a disconnect between my image and being a single mother with two small toddlers waiting at the bottom of that mountain where I was filming. Here I was at the top of that mountain where I was filming looking like, I don't know, a primitive female goddess. It was what people were thinking of me and fantasizing and projecting on me. It had nothing to do with reality. I made my piece with Loana [her character] a long time ago. And all the other girls like the girl with the holster under her poncho, they're not me.

You write about menopause.

I think there are a lot more women doctors and that has helped enormously. I went through the worst part of it with hot flashes and mood swings, it was nightmarish. There was also a kind of menopausal depression. You get in these very bleak moods for no reason and you think why am I crying? What's wrong with me?

You go to church and attend study group.

I do and I think it's helped me tremendously. When I started concentrating on looking beyond myself because in the American culture there is an awful lot of self, self esteem, self worth, it goes on and on and we look all the time to the self for answers and I found I didn't have the answers and I never did and it was so liberating because then I could acknowledge there was a higher power and for me it was God and the Christian faith and I found answers there that made me feel much more optimistic about everything. I also felt like I have a whole universe of intelligence to tap into that doesn't have to come out of my own imagination. I just have to know it's there and kneel in prayer and have some humility and realize how insignificant I am and by doing so allow others to come into my consciousness. I think a lot people take different paths. I meditated, I was a yogi, I mean I still do yoga, there was a time when I dabbled in Buddhism but I didn't find anything that made me have faith.

There was a certain idea of decency that I had from my mother. It was a different era but it protected me a lot because in certain circles there were artists who had libertine ideas. I didn't take them on. Maybe I wasn't going to have as much fun as they appeared to be having but a lot of what they were doing seemed to be kind of dangerous to me. I didn't like the drugs or the promiscuous sex, it was never for me. When I was around those people indulging in that I thought, well some of my mother's mid-western values protected me from those pitfalls. I thought it was a nice safety net. I always said I had an early call and slip out. That way I wouldn't have to indulge or reject or cast judgment.

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Raquel Welch: Being a Sex Symbol Felt Like a Prison Sentence

By Hollie McKay

Published May 04, 2010

LOS ANGELES – Actress Raquel Welch was the ultimate sex symbol thirty five years ago, mostly thanks to her role as a scantily clad cave woman in the 1966 camp classic "One Million Years B.C." Today, just a few months shy of her 70th birthday, Welch is no less of an iconic beauty.

But if you ask her about her looks, Welch might surprise you with her thoughts on her sex symbol persona. In fact, she equates her sex symbol status to being incarcerated.

“I was feeling very much as if I had been sentenced to sex symbol-dome, and I was locked in this image and couldn’t get out,” the star/author of “Behind the Cleavage” recently told Pop Tarts. “I thought that maybe they would let me out on parole if I was really nice and good but then all I had to do was do a misstep and it was back in the “not-really-a-person” thing. I was just there to look at and not to give anything else … the convict.”

Welch guesses that stars like Beyonce and Fergie are probably very fulfilled in their careers as they get to perform and partake in interesting roles in their field, however being famous just for your face and figure is well, pretty vapid.

“When you’re just a poster girl it’s such an empty, empty feeling, and even though people may admire you, it’s not for who you are. It’s not about you, it’s just about ‘her’ and that totally superficial kind of a look,” Welch continued. “I don’t think anybody wants to feel like that they’re just good because of having looks. It’s just very uncomfortable and rather sad.”

And even though Welch’s new book is aimed at getting the message across that she is actually a real person “Beyond the Cleavage” and that she actually has a real personality “underneath this so-called sex symbol and crazy, glamour Amazonian image” – we couldn’t help but find out what the secret was to that beautiful bikini body.

“Ten years of classical ballet was really what gave me the body. From age 7 to age 17 I was doing classical ballet every day of my life and the result of that was a very streamlined, very exceptional figure that I came away with,” Welch dished. “I thought I was going to be a ballerina, so I didn’t know that this reception to my physicality was going to be such that it took me off into a completely different direction.”

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"Dragonfly" Los Angeles Premiere

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Actress Raquel Welch attends the First Annual ESPY Awards on March 4, 1993 at the Paramount Theater, Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Actress Raquel Welch and boyfriend Andre Weinfeld attend the 36th Annual Golden Globe Awards on January 27, 1979 at Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.

Raquel Welch watches Los Angeles Lakers game against the New Jersey Nets at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Calif. on Friday, Jan. 28, 2005.

Raquel Welch during Robert F. Kennedy Benefit Rally Gala at Sportsmen Arena in Englewood, California, United States.

May 24, 1968

Raquel Welch and Gig Young during 42nd Annual Academy Awards at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Exclusive: CSI: Miami Casts Iconic Sex Symbol Raquel Welch In a Mother of a Role

CSI: Miami baddie Diego Navarro comes from very, very good stock — in that his mother is Raquel Welch.

TVLine has learned exclusively that the actress and 1960s/70s sex symbol will guest-star on CBS’ Sunday night crime drama as the matriarch of the very powerful Miami family from which Carlos Bernard’s character and thus his son Esteban (Kuno Becker) aka “The Miami Taunter” hail.

Welch’s episode is set to air in early 2012, following a guest appearance by another iconic bombshell, 10‘s Bo Derek (playing the owner of a horse stable, as EW.com reported).

Welch, whose many silver screen credits include One Million Years B.C., 100 Rifles, The Three Musketeers and Legally Blonde, most recently appeared on TV in the short-lived 2008 CBS sitcom Welcome to the Captain.

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Raquel Welch to be honored by Palm Springs Women in Film and Television

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Issue 05, Volume 16.

PALM SPRINGS - Raquel Welch will be honored by Palm Springs Women in Film and Television at the organization's awards gala, organizers announced today. The actress will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the group's fourth annual Broken Glass Awards on March 2 at Agua Caliente Casino in Rancho Mirage. "Ms. Welch will be given the Lifetime Achievement Award ... for her deft and determined shattering of the glass ceiling, thwarting a stereotype, and taking on challenging roles in a diverse choice of media to great success," according to a PSWFT statement. Welch rose to prominence in her first film, "One Million Years B.C.," and won a Golden Globe for Best Actress for "The Three Musketeers" in 1973. She starred in "Woman of the Year" and Victor/Victoria" on Broadway and PBS television series "American Family." Her book, "Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage," was a best-seller in 2010. Other women who will be honored at the gala include actress-singer Shirley Jones (Gena Rowlands Award); director Jennifer Yuh Nelson (Broken Glass Award); philanthropist Barbara Keller (Jackie Lee Houston Humanitarian Award); and producer Kim Waltrip (Desert Diva Award). The Broken Glass awards will include dinner, awards and entertainment. For tickets, call (760) 238-0306.

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