Aging Sex Icon Raquel Welch: Contraceptives Shattered Marriage, the 'Cornerstone of Civilization'

Life Site News ^ | May 12, 2010 | Kathleen Gilbert

[rlmorel]

"...Many think the 60’s were the best of America. Not so. The culture shifted and not in a good way...."

I agree with you 100% on this. And those people (and their devotees) hold the reins of power in this country right now. The radicals. Think of it. A guy like Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn that close to the ultimate seat of power not only in this country, but the world.

Bill Ayers. This guy:

It is hard for me to comprehend and accept. A man who was a lunatic bomb making druggie, and a woman who thought sticking a fork into Sharon Tate's pregnant murdered body was just too cool. The same people who blithely discussed killing 25 million Americans because that was the way it was going to have to be.

Unbelievable.

[ETL]

Ping to post 13:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2512444/posts?page=13#13

[GonzoII]

You’re welcome.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

Yes on both. Before she turned 70, I used to quip that Raquel Welch put the sex in sexagenerian.

[GonzoII]

This one trumps everybody's:

[bobby.223]

oh yes I was! but I do remember your/that later years saying. what a time it was to be alive, every damn week it seemed like something big was happening. the merc. gem. and app. launches especially. the ‘space race....wow!

[ETL]

Not these (from the 45 years earlier):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2512444/posts?page=14#14

[freedumb2003]

>>That’s what 70 looks like? I need to learn the name of her plastic surgeon. Wow!<<

That is HER — little if any plastic surgery. You can use Joan Rivers or Burt Reynolds as exemplars: She doesn’t have that Asian or “constant surprise” look.

She is just a beautiful woman who works very very hard to keep her looks naturally.

Here is a pretty good article on her:

http://www.examiner.com/x-14380-Celebrity-Fitness-and-Health-Examiner~y2010m3d26-Raquel-Welch-still-sizzling-at-69-My-beauty-and-fitness-secrets

There are some who think otherwise, but if she has had scalpel help it has been deft and minimal.

IMHO.

[The Antiyuppie]

“Aging”...rather well.

[freekitty]

I have heard she is intellegent; but than I have heard the same of Sharon Stone.

However, I have always liked Raquel Welch. I never thought she competed against women like so many of the celebs today that haved turned themselves into allknowing sluts. Everytime I see a magazine with celebs in or on the cover; they are stripped down or some commercial is relating to how they lost weight and they are showing everything they have.

Had a friend who lived in Beverly Hills tell me a while back that all of them have plastic surgery. Oscar night was the big night to see who had done what. LOL

[The Antiyuppie]

Also, she is a good example of great bone structure (once you get past the obvious). Women (men, too) who have good cheekbones and look good when they are younger, almost always look good when they are older. No amount of plastic surgery as far as I know can duplicate naturally good cheekbones. Darn, all I got were dimples.

[bobby.223]

agreed. hard work, exercise, diet etc.etc. can help so much but it is so much easier for people to malign....damn, look at Jack Lalane, 90 or so? I might be wrong here freed, but I think the green eyed monster might have something to do with the neg. comments about this woman. hard work, attention to your diet and weight etc. can help beyond what the lazies can say.

[TChad]

She came a long, long way since her days as "Skinny Legs" on the San Diego beaches. She even succeeded on Broadway.

Just in case anyone wants to hire her as a speaker:

http://www.greatertalent.com/RaquelWelch

[freedumb2003]

Excellent summary.

And we are sort of caught up on her looks, but if we look at the OP, she properly chastises people — no, WOMEN — who use birth control as a simple escape devise.

Ms. Welch notes the societal costs of the easy out.

“My baby daddy” is more than a meme — it is a lifestyle for many.

She nails that issue.

[bobby.223]

‘a simple escape device’.....damn, a long long LONG time ago I bought into that and I am ashamed to admit that now...but that was SOP then....even after the ‘73 ruling made it ‘okay’. why can’t women look at her and say....’ darn, I could do that....I have had children like she has....I could work out and exercise...I could get my old body back...am I out to lunch here? damn free, is it easier for women now to just say the heck with it....I have my baby...I do not care any longer on how I look? no personal pride? I might be way out here but in my day women cared AND their men helped and complimented them on their looks before and after babies. damn, the work for a women to carry and deliver a child!!?? almost impossible for a man to understand and feel that I guess but there were men then that looked at a pregnant women as beautiful. have things changed? why would women now look at a 70 year old women like this, who looks like this and slam down on her? what is the point other than jealously?

[ottbmare]

I googled the issue. There’s a plastic surgeon who has a blog and discussed this. He says her forehead is nearly immobile, which indicates the use of Botox, she has almost certainly had laser resurfacing, as well as injections of Juvaderm or Restylane or some other filler into her upper lips and the “marionette lines” that run from nose to chin. The laser might also be responsible for tightening her jawline. Technically these procedures are not surgery so she’s telling the truth about that. However he thinks that she may have had actual surgery to put implants in her cheeks and tighten the skin around her eyes. He says point-blank, “She’s a liar.”

She had had a nose job before she came to Hollywood but that doesn’t count in the context of the present discussion.

[HiTech RedNeck]

More grease on the “cheap sex” skids.

[Tainan]

Ya know, I think I would believe anything I was told by Raquel Welch or Sophia Loren.

No matter what they said...I'd believe them.
Yep, I would.

[freedumb2003]

why would women now look at a 70 year old women like this, who looks like this and slam down on her? what is the point other than jealously?

[originalbuckeye]

My brother and sister-in-law are aging hippies. My sister is a proclaimed Socialist and my younger brother is a slacker. My parents were two good Conservatives. I am glad they aren't around to see what has happened with three of their four children. I am also glad they aren't around to see what is happening to their beloved country. Many do believe the 60’s were the best years of our lives. I am not one. I am heartbroken at the condition of our country. Many good people voted for Obama because he ran as a CENTRIST. He is governing as a MARXIST. My family voted for him because he is a Socialist and Black. They used to be smart. Not so now.