Raquel Welch, Hollywood icon and 1960s sex symbol, has died at age 82.
Raquel was married four times: to James Welch from 1959 to 1964, to Patrick Curtis from 1967 to 1972, toand her first husband shared son Damon and daughter Tahnee, born in 1959 and 1961, respectively.
Though Raquel was born to a Bolivian father whose last name was Tejada, Curtis — who was her agent before they wed — advised her to keep her ex-husband’s last name to avoid being typecast as a Latina actress. Thestar embraced her heritage in her later years, revealing that she’d also been advised to change her first name to Debbie.
“People didn’t like my name and they said it was too ethnic, too difficult to pronounce, too exotic,” she told thein 2015. “They wanted to change it and I was not happy at all. I did really feel like Raquel.”
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