RAQUEL WELCH

Raquel Welch is an American actress and singer who started as a young girl studying ballet and drama in Chicago. She also pursued competing in beauty pageants and won Miss Contour and Miss Photogenic. But it was only after landing the leading role in the sci-fi flick, Fantastic Voyage that she became a famous actress. Welch’s unique film role made her an icon in the 1960s and 1970s because she portrayed strong female characters and broke the model of archetypal symbolism.

Therefore, part of the reason she became a star in the mid-1960s was due to the end of Hollywood’s big bombshell promotion of blondes. After graduating from high school in 1958, she ended up pregnant and got married to James Welch. She then pursued a degree in college. Eventually, she got divorced and had three more failed marriages, and the latest is with Richard Palmer. There is no other news about her since then.