MOD Monday - Raquel Welch

60's sex symbol and pop culture icon, Raquel Welch was a big deal in her heyday. Born Jo Raquel Tejada in Chicago, Illinois in 1940, she was of Spanish/American descent because her father was a Bolivian immigrant.  Prior to becoming an actress, Welch was involved in acting on a small scale doing plays in her local community theatre. She worked as a cocktail waitress and also did work modeling for the department store, Neiman Marcus.  Her first taste of being behind the camera was when she landed a gig as weather girl for a San Diego television station.

In 1965, at the age of twenty five, Raquel got her first movie roll in a campy beach film that landed her a contract with 20th Century Fox, but it wasn't until the 1966 movie 'Fantastic Voyage' that she actually achieved star status.  The movie that pushed her into her own, was the remake of 'One Million Years B.C.' which she starred in wearing nothing but a fur bikini and speaking only three lines of dialect. The movie poster for the film became a best seller and made her one of the leading sex symbols of the 60's.

Welch seemed to be solely responsible for making 'cleavage' a fashion accessory in the 60's as MOD fashions were becoming more revealing once her bodacious bod was on the scene!  Ironically, in 2010 at the age of 70 and still as fab as ever, Raquel Welch wrote a book titled..."Beyond The Cleavage" which is cited as being part autobiography and part personal philosophy on every subject from dealing with the angst of youth to aging gracefully.

Denying having had any plastic surgery, she promotes that her longevity with retaining a youthful appearance has everything to do with exercise, yoga, a strict diet, a tad of hormone replacement therapy and three hours of make up in the morning.  I don't know if I particularly buy into all of this especially after seeing this photo of her with her wig tape showing?  In all reality unless she has discovered the fountain of youth or sold her soul, there is absolutely no way in 'H-E-double hockey sticks' that anyone can be 70 and look this flawless without a little help from their friends (i.e. plastic surgeon).  It just ain't happenin'!

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Pippa's British Bootie Envy!

Ever since she made her debut appearance in the public eye, Pippa Middleton has been a tabloid sensation. From the whispers that suggested she stole the show at the royal wedding, upstaging her sis Kate when she dutifully trailed behind her carrying her train during the nuptials, wearing the form fitting gown designed especially for her by Alexander McQueen,...to the recent 'bootie envy' that is said to be sending women everywhere in droves to their local plastic surgeons in hopes of getting a boost to lift their derrieres a' la Pippa style!

For years, boob jobs, nose jobs & face lifts have been the most sought after procedures when it comes to physical enhancements, however, as of late with the ever escalating popularity of celebs such as Jennifer Lopez & Kim Kardashian, buttocks related aesthetic procedures or 'ass'thetics' ha ha...has been taking precedence for about the past five years.  Grant it, Pippa has an awesome figure, but seriously what is up with the website I just happened upon called 'pippasass.com'?  I just don't get the whole 'ass envy' concept...do you?     
          
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The Risque' & Raunchy Rose McGowan

Rose McGowan was in the news today because she's taking on a new role in the popular hit t.v. series 'Law & Order SVU'.  She's been known since the beginning of her acting career back in 1992 for playing the bad girl femme fatale.

She made it more than obvious at the MTV Music Video Awards in 1996 that she was the 'real deal' when she pushed the envelope to the hilt by wearing a barely there, see through string dress and a t-back thong minus the bra as she accompanied then fiance' Marilyn Manson down the red carpet!  After viewing these pics, it's pretty hard to believe she suffers from agoraphobia (fear of wide open spaces, crowds or uncontrolled social conditions) as well as an anxiety disorder given the nature of her extrovert risque' and raunchy persona eh? By the way, I'm pretty sure that no designer would stake claim to this mess!  

This fashion disaster, poor judgement call and lack of good taste didn't cost her anything of course because this is Hollywood after all, and she went on three years after the fact to play Paige Matthews in the popular WB television series 'Charmed', taking over the role of Shannon Doherty's character opposite Holly Marie Combs and Alyssa Milano. 

   
Her acting career was at a stand still for a bit after she finished the film 'Grindhouse' written by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino.  This gig shot her to cult icon status after she aced the leading role as the Texas go-go dancer Cherry Darling who became a one legged zombie killing heroine... 

It is said that the reason for the lag in her career was due to the fact that she was in a car accident in 2007 in which she endured serious injuries to her face and she attributes that as the reason behind her undergoing plastic surgery to repair the cut under her eye caused by her glasses at impact.  Really? take a look at these before and after pics of Ms. Gowan.  Seems to me that more than than her eye got nipped and tucked!...  It couldn't be more obvious that it was either her extremist sense of self or misplaced vanity that cost her the soft curves of her once youthful look and replaced it with the "I just got done walking through a wind tunnel" look because seriously...no one ages 20 years overnight!  

  

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