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Raquel Welch Was Told to 'Change Her Hair, Look, Name' to Hide Her Ethnicity

The CW documentary ‘I am Raquel Welch’ features audio from the late actress, who shared how her ethnicity impacted her career

A new documentary is shining a light on the life and legacy of Raquel Welch, including how her Bolivian ethnicity impacted her iconic Hollywood career. 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. “I started using the term ‘stealth Latino’ to talk about figures like Raquel Welch, a person of Latin American or Spanish descent,” Eugenio explained in the documentary.

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