Raquel Welch (born September 5 1940) is an American actress.

Early life

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Welch was born Jo Raquel Tejada in Chicago, Illinois, the oldest of three children born to Armando Carlos Tejada and Josephine Sarah Hall. Her father was a Bolivian immigrant who was an aerospace engineer, and her mother was an Irish-American.^*

In 1942, Armando Tejada was transferred to San Diego, California. The family moved to the suburb of La Jolla, where Raquel grew up. She took dancing lessons as a child, and was winning beauty pageants by the time she was a teenager. Among her titles were "Miss Photogenic," "Miss La Jolla," "Miss Contour," and "Miss San Diego." In 1957, she was named "Miss Fairest of the Fair" at the San Diego County Fair. After high school she entered San Diego State College on a theater arts scholarship. The following year she married a high school sweetheart, James Welch.

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@Lorrimer pah! I was at the Devonshire Arms when Fred Truman & Raquel Welch's kids were having their wedding reception. What a night.
the_original_PD (PD) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:18:17 -0000
@Lorrimer pah! I was at the Devonshire Arms when Fred Truman & Raquel Welch's kids were having their wedding reception. What a night.
"Mother, Jugs & Speed": Bill Cosby, Harvey Keitel and Raquel Welch star in this zany 1976 comedy about 2 privately owned ambulance companies
CraigC (CraigC) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:11:35 -0000
"Mother, Jugs & Speed": Bill Cosby, Harvey Keitel and Raquel Welch star in this zany 1976 comedy about 2 privately owned ambulance companies
Photo: Raquel Welch in her prime http://tumblr.com/xrs4lfr6j
mercurie80 (Terry Canote) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:10:34 -0000
Photo: Raquel Welch in her prime http://tumblr.com/xrs4lfr6j
I wonder what the great Chthulu would say if he saw Raquel Welch eating a rodent? Even more curious, what if it was Richard Gere's hampster?
0bduratus (Obduratus Teggossa) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:47:25 -0000
I wonder what the great Chthulu would say if he saw Raquel Welch eating a rodent? Even more curious, what if it was Richard Gere's hampster?
@heycraig u should see tortilla soup, the very same movie in hispanic LA: even an aged raquel welch!
realjoe (realjoe) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:01:15 -0000
@heycraig u should see tortilla soup, the very same movie in hispanic LA: even an aged raquel welch!
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