Raquel Welch, now 81, was in ‘cracking form for a lady who has survived 44 years, 27 films, three marriages and two children’ in a photoshoot for the Observer Magazine in 1984. She was plugging the publication of her workout book, Raquel: The Raquel Welch Total Beauty and Fitness Program, ‘like those other mature American glamour pusses Jane Fonda, Victoria Principal and Linda Evans’.
The book revealed Welch’s ‘most cherished beauty secrets, physical and mental’ and drew from the Hatha yoga that she discovered seven years previously. ‘The fact is,’ Welch confided, ‘that the mind and the body are interrelated.’
