welch 1Raquel Welch, the bustiest bombshell of the 1960s and #1 on Mr. Skin's nude scene wish list, has a new book out, Beyond the Cleavage. Though Mr. Skin usually prefers to gaze into Raquel's cleavage, the 70-year-old lust legend (who looks amazing for her age, by the way) has some skinteresting things to say to the vajazzled starlets of today. Raquel doesn't believe in letting it all hang out, as she told Nicki Gostin in their interview for Popeater:

I have this romantic part to my nature and maybe that's why I find it difficult when I see this kind of vulgar approach to women today. I think there's too much homage being paid to pole dancers...I mean I'm all for body beautiful but my God there's a head attached.

I think sex is held up too much...[Repression] really doesn't kill your libido, let's put it that way, or kill your sensuality. I think if anything nowadays, everybody has OD'd on porn. I was talking to my trainer this morning and I said I don't know, do all these girls strip their ZZ bare?

[SKIN NOTE: by "ZZ" we assume she means bikini line.]Welch 3

Raquel actually seems more in tune with the buttoned-up 1950s than the free-spirited attitudes of her own era, the swinging 60's:

There was a certain idea of decency that I had from my mother. It was a different era but it protected me a lot because in certain circles there were artists who had libertine ideas. I didn't take them on...I didn't like the drugs or the promiscuous sex, it was never for me.

I felt like I was born in the wrong time. What about all the heat that used to come off all those black and white films? I never saw Marilyn nude in a film, maybe the last one that nobody saw. I think it was kind of more interesting.

[SKIN NOTE: Marilyn Monroe did actually pose nude, first for Playboy, as you can see in Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess, and then she swam in the buff for her last film, Something's Got to Give (1962).]

welch 4Still, this reluctant sex symbol can't help waxing nostalgic (if not her on-ramp), looking back on her days as the grooviest pair of knockers ever to don a furry bikini in One Million Years BC (1966):

It does sort of make me smile because of course I don't feel like her. There was a disconnect between my image and being a single mother with two small toddlers waiting at the bottom of that mountain where I was filming. Here I was at the top of that mountain where I was filming looking like, I don't know, a primitive female goddess. It was what people were thinking of me and fantasizing and projecting on me.

You can do some fantasizing of your own with all the sexiest, breastiest, most bikinitastic moments from Raquel Welch, skincluding her performance as Lust in Bedazzled (1967) and her accidental flash o' the can in Hannie Caulder (1972), right here on MrSkin.com!