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She once said, "I am living proof that a picture speaks a thousand words." And these vintage Raquel Welch pictures show exactly what she meant.
Born Jo-Raquel Tejada in 1940 to a Bolivian father and an American mother in Chicago, actress Raquel Welch didn’t initially aspire to the movie stardom and sex symbol status she ultimately achieved. Her first love was actually ballet.

From age seven to 17, she gave her all to ballet lessons only to be heartbroken when her instructor insisted that she didn’t have the figure for it.

Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C. in 1966.
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