• Name: Raquel Welch
  
• Birth Name: Jo Raquel Tejada
  
• Height: 5' 6''
  
• Sex: F
  
• Nationality: American
  
• Birth Date: September 5, 1940 at 2:04pm-CDT
  
• Birth Place: Chicago, Illinois
  
• Profession: actress
  
• Education: La Jolla High School, California
  
• Husband/Wife: Richard Palmer (married on July 17, 1999), Andre Weinfeld (1980 - 1990; divorced), Patrick Curtis (1967 - 1972; divorced), James Welch (1959 - 1964; divorced; 2 children)
  
• Son: Damon Welch (father: James Welch)
  
• Daughter: Tahnee Welch (father: James Welch; actress)
  

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• Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.
• The mind can also be an erogenous zone.
• You can't fake listening. It shows.
• “I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love.”
• Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.
• “We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.”
• I couldn't stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch - understand?

• Imagen Foundation Awards: Lifetime Achievement Award (2001)
• Western Heritage Awards: Bronze Wrangler - Fictional Television Drama, THE LEGEND OF WALKS FAR WOMAN (1983)
• Golden Globe Awards: Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy, THE THREE MUSKETEERS: THE QUEEN'S DIAMONDS (1975)

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