While Welch took the surname of her first husband, James Welch, to whom she was married from 1959 to 1964, she refused to get rid of Raquel — the Spanish variant of Rachel.

And for a time more than five decades ago, Raquel Welch was the fashion. Subscribe to The American Spectator to receive the entirety of Dan Flynn’s Spectator A.M. newsletter.

RIP Raquel Welch, the Star Who Helped Redefine American Beauty by Kyle Munzenrieder Feb. 15, 2023 Photo by Herbert Dorfman/Corbis via Getty Images ...

The doc, which premiered on Saturday, March 8, alleges that Welch — who died in 2023 at the age of 82 — was told to essentially hide her ethnicity for the sake of her budding career in Hollywood.

Raquel Welch wearing an animal hide bikini, posing against a rock, in a publicity portrait for “One Million Years B.C.” in 1966. Getty Images “100 Rifles” (1969) ...

Welch’s real name was Jo Raquel Tejada. She was born in Chicago, Illinois on September 5, 1940. Welch’s father, Armando Carlos Tejada Urquizo, was an aeronautical engineer from Bolivia and her ...

Raquel Welch didn't fully embrace her Bolivian heritage until the early 2000s, some 40 years into her career. But in the end, Raquel and I found our roots, and would never forget them, writes Judy ...

The building’s still there. Arriving in 1940, Jo Raquel Tejada was the first of three children born to Josephine Sarah Hall, an American of English ancestry, and Bolivian-born Armando Carlos Tejada.

Jim Brown & Raquel Welch B. 1936 and 1940 They were typecast as sex symbols, but when they appeared together in a movie, that sexiness became radical. By Wesley Morris Boy, the movies can be cruel.

While Welch took the surname of her first husband, James Welch, to whom she was married from 1959 to 1964, she refused to get rid of Raquel — the Spanish variant of Rachel.