Farrah's hair was the 8th Wonder of the World

Good god she is wearing 4 inches of makeup in those pics. I agree great hair. Takes a lot of work (and highlights) to make it look like that.

Her skin tone matches her orange shirt in that first pic.

She had a look that was very popular at the time but no longer fits into current beauty culture. Now it’s all about full lips and curvaceous figures. Farrah had thin lips and was a skinny woman. Marilyn still fits into modern beauty standards.

[quote] I don't understand how she faded away so quickly.

I read it was ass cancer.

Fuck that shiny eyeshadow and bronzer was so in back then. And lots of brown!!

I have a blu-ray set of Charlie Angels and watch it periodically so Farrah still exists in my world.

[quote] Now it’s all about full lips and curvaceous figures.

Well, yeah everyone today has botox and fake tits.

Cheryl Ladd was more attractive than FF.

There were many beautiful women on TV in the ’70s, but Farrah had a look that was truly one of a kind.

Let’s be real she had a very manly face. God didn’t create 2 sexes so that women with square heads and big chins could be sex symbols. Her death was a punishment for blurring gender lines

I thought all of the Angels were attractive and the show was cast very well.

Her ass was a hotbed of HPV infection.

She wasn't anywhere near as big as Marilyn, didn't have an affair with a Kennedy and didn't die both early and tragically. So there you go!

OP - one reason she didn't end up as iconic as Marilyn: in the right movie with the right director, Marilyn was a decent actress. She had true movie star quality that could hold your attention for a solid two hours.

And like R12 just posted, Farrah didn't die young and tragically. (that goes a huge distance). If Farrah had died tragically in a car wreck before age 36, there might still be photos of her all over the universe. Her career would have never gotten to the point when people realized, "she ain't all that!".

Farrah was an awesome actress in the right role. She was phenomenal in the Burning Bed.

Back in the early '90s, there was a drag show at a local club where one of the standout performers was Farrah Foxette, who looked exactly like the real Farrah. She would hit the stage during intermission, dancing to disco tracks alongside fellow queens Slate Jackson and Smacklyn Chic.

During her only full season on Charlie’s Angels, she was a pop culture sensation who wouldn’t really be matched in intensity by another star until Michael Jackson released Thriller.

Leaving the show didn’t kill her career, but she never recovered professionally from it.

Shake your head, darling.

Remember when Farrah was a Nazi hunter?

[quote]Cheryl Ladd was more attractive than FF.

Not when she was younger. Plus, Cheryl is a cold and unfriendly woman.

Funny you draw a parallel between Farrah and MJ r16 , as they died on the same day.

Cheryl is a cunt.

I would say that Ryan O'Neal killed her career. She got into drugs and kind of gave up on her career.

Farrah looked like a mess by the time she was 50 and doing that Playboy spread. It was pretty sad. Years with sociopathic narcissist Ryan O'Neal surely didn't help, but she also had her issues.

Her move from TV to movies was almost as disastrous as David Caruso's. Unlike Monroe, she had only one hit movie: "The Cannonball Run." So, she switched to TV movies, low-budget features, and some stage work.

You know wigs were a thing, right? She was very special though. Now "beautiful" people look entirely exchangeable.

I think she downplayed her looks because she wanted to be thought of as a serious actress. She was great in the Burning Bed and in Small Sacrifices.

Then, I think she aged gracefully compared to most. She didn't seem to be fighting age. She wasn't vain in spite of the media/public's intense focus on her looks.

I liked her shorter haircut better. You got to see what a pretty face she had.

Wasn't vain? Didn't fight aging? Omg. Here she is at 50 post plastic surgery and injectable.

The problem was all teen girls just flipped the sides of their long hair with the rest all flat. I think Farrah had it layered all over. And a professional hair dresser of course.

[quote]Farrah's hair was the 8th Wonder of the World

And here I thought it was men's pubic hair.

Only people who don't love attention do Playboy.

Twice!! After 50.

she couldn’t act and never made it in the movies.

Third times a charm!

I still watch for her every time in Logan's Run. Blink and you miss the scene.

Her layout from 1995 was one of their best selling issues ever and she was paid $1 million plus a percentage of each copy sold. I think she was beautiful but her features weren’t perfect but all together they looked great.

She was offered the Goldie Hawn part in foul play plus a bigger percentage of the Charlie’s angels merchandise profits but turned it down. The movies she did flopped but she became kryptonite in Hollywood because she was being sued by Aaron spelling/leonard Goldberg.

Farrah was phenomenally popular for one brief season in 1976, then bailed on the show that made her a hit. The ensuing press surrounding her breach of contract lawsuit, portrayed her as a money-hungry ingrate, and when her film career tanked, there was a bit of schadenfreude felt among industry insiders.

I’m younger than most of you here. I’m 38.

I will never see Farrah’s beauty and sex appeal.

She’s not very pretty to me.

I feel like once they hairstyle went out of fashion, she went with it.

The Farrah phenomenon was huge, and with all the surrounding hoopla came the backlash. Detractors, like my dad, would comment, "She isn't even pretty. And she's flat chested!" His tastes were more along the lines of Lynda Carter and Barbi Benton.

Her biggest career mistake was turning down Foul Play, which would have turned her into a major movie star. You can see her briefly in the beginning party scene, though. I wonder why she turned it down?

Well, she was actually really awful, as an actress, for quite a long time. She gradually got better but...not a great actress. Mostly did TV. Mostly awful movies.

She had a million dollar smile and that great hair but she was actually rather odd looking. Bony and manly.

Monroe wasn't the greatest actress who ever lived, but she had a unique persona and voice that was captivating. She also worked in the Big Studio era and they helped create that image and nurture it, (while also treating her like shit). She also had the advantage of much better material than Farrah who never got "All About Eve" or "Some Like It Hot" quality of writing/directing.

Some like it Hot, is still watchable today. A Classic like Rosemary’s Baby and The Godfather

Like others have said, she was incredibly popular for a brief time. You couldn’t escape her presence. Everyone knew who she was.

Her beauty was like a shiny bright penny; wide white smile and that crazy head of blonde hair.

Because it would’ve been tied in to her staying on Charlie’s Angels R40.

I dunno, when I think of her, she always seems dumb and scared.

My first awareness of her was her high-as-a-kite appearance on Letterman. She seemed like total trash.

She was NOT the biggest star since MM. she was a starlet with limited talent who was on a successful TV series and became a pinup- closer to Jane Mansfield than MM. . For most of us in the 70s she was a bimbo. I assume you’re too young to know OP.

R9 thanks for my best laugh all week.

OP doesn’t seem to know wigs and extensions existed even then. That hair on the right looks straight from Mattel.

She was megawatt magical in her time. Tragical afterwards. Suzanne Somers also faced a fierce professional backlash for choosing to spread her artistic wings. I never considered either as a bimbo, which is quite a feat given the jiggle TV sensibilities of the time. I ultimately felt very sorry for Farrah. I had a friend who had been an acquaintance of hers and was told she was very sweet.

Her hair was undeniably a major part of her appeal and contributed greatly to her attractiveness. But when she appeared in that TV movie as Barbara Hutton with shorter hair, it became more apparent that her features, like her nose, were unconventional, and her overall look was less striking. She was no Grace Kelly.

Farrah looked a lot like Marilyn facially.

Farrah and Tom Selleck were the most gorgeous creatures on earth in 1972. They don't make people as beautiful as that nowadays.

In 1993-1994, I worked with Farrah’s nephew at Gap near Rice University in Houston. He was very nice and friendly. He told me that Farrah was very pro-gay and had lots of gay friends.

He was also very cute, in case anyone asks, and straight.

I told him that I was a huge Farrah fan in the Late 1970s, and he said he would introduce me when she visited Houston, but she didn’t during the year and a half that I worked at that Gap.

I think he was in charge of some aspect of her estate after her death many years later.

R50 = Stevie Wonder

LOVED her shampoo!!!

Farrah the artiste, high as a kite, painting murals with her nude body, was a high point of low camp.

In the famous poster, she's wearing 2 wigs and extensions.

She was a pretty good actress as she got older but Ryan O'Neal was a demon she couldn't shake.

And drugs. Lots of drugs.

R19 - At the time of the show, Cheryl was more attractive than FF.

They were only four years apart.

When I was a kid growing up in L.A., I sat next to Farrah Fawcett at a tennis club where my brother was playing in a tournament against Vincent Van Patten. It was the summer just before the first season of Charlie's Angels premiered, but I already recognized her from the Shampoo commercials on TV. I didn’t say anything to her, but at one point she looked right at me and gave me a big, bright smile.

Cheryl is beautiful but didn’t have the charisma and it factor Farrah had at the time. Farrah had been in Hollywood for almost a decade before Charlie’s angels premiered. She was a regular in commercials and tv guest starring roles. She did a great job with her small but effective part in the apostle with Robert Duvall.

I remember her as a secondary character in Myra Breckenridge. She was Rusty's girlfriend and dumb as a brick (typecast?)

R50 they looked nothing alike

I really dislike Tony Curtis, and I can just about tolerate Jack Lemmon’s shenanigans, so I could never appreciate Some Like It Hot. I also don’t think men playing women is hilarious.

Farrah was at UT Austin for 3 years before leaving for Hollywood after her junior year. She had been pursed by talent scouts since her freshman year in college.

After Farrah left, Kim Basinger was their first choice to replace Farrah but she turned it down.

She was stunning but not a good actress.....I wonder hat gay did her hair

i grew up with Farrah's braless tits and hair being plastered on every boy and man's wall, and to be honest, I never thought she was all that pretty.

I think it was the nipples, hair and teeth.

She was also kind of like Sporty Spice before there was a Sporty Spice, but actually sexy. She looked very "healthy" - thin, lithe, etc. I will admit she had sex appeal.

I think it was Jose Eber who styled the iconic hair style.

She was very beautiful, but OPs photos are very enhanced.

Not "beautiful" by any means...she had a very sharp face/angles.

Attractive, yes.

In the 1970s it was all about her hair. She set a hairstyle trend that lasted a couple of decades in some parts of the country.

R64 It was Allen Edwards. She had naturally thick, wavy hair, and Edwards used that to his advantage by layering and blow-drying it backward to create a soft, feathered effect.

It was also at a time when blowdryers became more accessible.

So it makes sense why the hairstyle became so popular.

R68, which features were angular and why?

r71 I'm not playing your game.

Your favorite smile R72

Everything I've read about that hairdo is that it is a pain in the ass to create and upkeep.

Once in a great while, you can still find Ladies of a Certain Age still trying to rock that look.

Of course, they're well into their 70s.

Same thing with the Linda Evans/Krystal style.

Sabrina's wash & go haircut was more sensible for both detective work and the chain gang.

I never noticed that if you really zoom in on the famous poster image so it’s just her face she looks psychotic. Like it stops being a happy smile and veers into uncanny, pained territory, like she’s gritting the words HELP ME through her teeth. Her eyes are screaming. Eerie

Jaclyn Smith has great hair too. Poor fucking Kate Jackson the mutt of the group. Although she had very shiny hair. Worst Charlie's Angels hair = Shelley Hack.

She's not wearing a wig in the bathing suit poster. That's her real hair.

How much did her infamous red swimsuit poster sell for back then?

[quote] We always forget that Farrah Fawcett passed away on the same day as Mike.

I never forget that. I was traveling that day and it was very weird to make it to a break and learn that Farrah died, and then get to the destination to learn of Michael Jackson's death.

Those posters were only a couple of bucks.

Apparently the poster cost $3.00 in 1976 and eventually 12 million were sold.

Jaclyn was the most elegant, but Cheryl was the one with the most natural beauty.

I can’t thing of anything more ignominious than being a sex symbol who dies of butthole cancer.

[quote]Everything I've read about that hairdo is that it is a pain in the ass to create and upkeep.

R74, back in 1977, several magazines had articles about how to get the Farrah Look. It was all about turning the curlers a certain way.

Utilizing those articles, 11 year old gay me experimented with the style on my mother and sister, to very limited success.

Only Farrah and her team of stylists could pull it off!

There were two versions of the famous poster. The lesser known just wasn't as dynamic. Farrah's smile wasn't as big, and her head wasn't thrown back as much.

I had both versions of the poster on my bedroom walls. I never pretended to be attracted to her. I was clearly a fanboy who loved the true star of Charlie's Angels. I had all of the Charlie's Angel action figures. The Cheryl Ladd doll looks closest to any of their actual faces.

Ooh, the Jill figure even had Farrah's iconic skateboard outfit from her final episode of the show in 1977 (before she came back to begin guest stints in 1979).

None of the other actresses became the pop culture phenomenon that was Farrah Fawcett-Majors in 1976-1979.

[quote] Not "beautiful" by any means...she had a very sharp face/angles. Attractive, yes.

Oh , look, a DL “beauty” troll. Probably at home inhaling Popeye’s in his Chianti-stained kimono.

Linda Carter back in 1977 was genuinely beautiful. Farrah was just all about the hair.

I had the Jill doll too r86!

When my mother and I lived in L.A in 1975 for a short stint after the divorce, she went to Jose Eber (who claimed to invent Farrah's hair). He gave her, a Chinese woman with stick straight hair, the same hairdo. It involved an hour of hot rollers, blow drying, and multiple layers of hairspray, and it looked great. My mom was so glamorous at that time, using Ultima cosmetics (she somehow got a whole eyeshadow tester unit), and partying with the Eagles.

Farrah looked so good on Battle of the Network Stars.

And she had that beautiful brilliant smile r88.

Super white teeth weren’t really a thing back in the 70s. Yes, there was Pearl White toothpaste, but it really didn’t work and nobody really cared all that much about shockingly white teeth

Heather Locklear was not only more beautiful and had better hair than Farrah, but she also gave us more classic TV. Whenever an Aaron Spelling show was struggling in the ratings, he would bring Heather on and the numbers would increase practically overnight. The TV audience just loved her. So did her co-stars.

Heather had enormous success beginning in the 1980s and persevered through the 90s and into the early 2000s. Farrah never had the same kind of impact on TV especially for decades, although that kind of success is difficult for anyone to maintain. Even though she's nowhere near the level she once was, I still appreciate Heather's contributions more than Farrah. Other than Charlie's Angels and The Burning Bed, nothing else stands out on her resume. I think that's why she doesn't have the reverence that you think she should have, OP.

Farrah was the Madonna of the 70s

[quote] Farrah was the Madonna of the 70s

Total Bullshit. Madonna changed her look several times throughout her career and set several trends in the process. Farrah, on the other hand, refused to let go of that hair and the pound of makeup even post Charlie's Angels. She rarely took risks. Madonna was a leader. Farrah was a follower. She was more like Jennifer Aniston, another TV star known for a certain look and known for rarely switching things up.

Part of the Farrah appeal, besides the big hair, big smile, athletic physique, and sunny disposition, was her "happy" marriage to TV star Lee Majors. Together, they were the "golden couple" of the 1970s, like Liz & Dick of the previous decade. They were on so many magazine covers and tabloids, and housewives across America ate that shit up. So there was a lot of goodwill towards that couple.

When that marriage crumbled, and she turned to his best friend Ryan O'Neal for comfort, then had his baby out of wedlock, which was a big scandal back then, the public turned against her.

Farrah & Lee

Farrah was the David Caruso of the 1970s.

To this day Farrah has no. 1 best selling poster of all time….

R97 - Farrah and Lee inspired the song that would become Midnight Train to Georgia.

Farrah & Lee: The End.

R45 I haven't seen that interview since it aired. One of the most embarrasing interviews on television, until the Diane Sawyer / Whitney Houston interview ("Crack is Wack") a few years later.

R52 IIRC, yes - her handsome nephew was a co-executor of her estate after she died. There was a huge tabloid blow-up between him and Ryan O'Neal over the Warhol portrait of Farrah, which Warhol gifted her in the early 80s (I believe it was right after the 1982 Diana Ross session). Nephew said it belonged to the estate (and would be sold at auction), while O'Neal said she gifted it to him before her death in return for his taking care of her through her illness. Thrown into the mix was her hockey-player boyfriend who also staked a claim to it. It was quite an interesting legal battle, and in the end O'Neal won in court (I used to watch the updates on CourtTV about a decade ago).

I've lost track of where it is now, but I believe the intention was for it to be sold at auction upon O'Neal's death (Dec. 2023) and the money would go to offset their son's private healthcare for life. (At least that was what was reported in early 24). That in itself is a pretty fascinating story that could lend itself to a television movie under the right production company.

I am glad I am not the only one who thinks her hair was obviously a wig. I mean she did have good hair, but that super shiny yellow hair with that classic flip is fake.

What actually happened to Redmond O'Neil - was it just massive amounts of drugs or was he genetically fucked up from birth? At r102, the poster talks about $$ for healthcare for his lifetime...what's the actual story there/diagnosis?

I know, I could google it, but I'm just coming off being violently ill over the past 48 hours, and if anyone knows offhand, pleas share.

I remember her friend Alana Stewart said in a few interviews after Farrah's death that if Farrrah had her way after giving birth to Redmond, she would've left Hollywood behind and gone back to school to get her degree in art education. Stewart said she 'most likely' would have gone off to some small college in the midwest to teach art history or art classes (that was her intention all along when she first went to college) and taken Redmond with her, for the two of them to live a quiet secluded/private life.

There were her friends who supported her (like Stewart and Cher), but then there were those who told her she couldn't leave Hollywood - she was the face of superstardom, and there was so much money to be made at her fingertips . Ryan O'Neal was one of the biggest influencers in her life and really convinced her to abandon her dream of leaving. And Hollywood is where she stayed with Redmond, and both had a tragic path ahead.

R104 In a nutshell (no pun intended) her son, now 40, can not function on his own in society. I believe he's been diagnosed as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and antisocial personality disorder.

In 2019, he was charged with attempted murder, burglary, assault, drug possession, etc. All this on top of his substance-abuse addiction which he developed in his teen years. He was found 'mentally unfit to stand trial' in the attempted murder case a few years ago, and has been court-ordered to living in an institution receiving 'round the clock' care, rather than back to prison. (Some 'sources' have said his half-siblings, Tatum and Griffin, have made it clear they want nothing to do with him). Chances are he will never, ever leave this institution and rejoin society for the rest of his life. IIRC, upon his psych evaluation when his dad died in December, 2024, the court would not let him leave the psych institution to attend O'Neal's funeral. He's a danger to himself and others.

Very sad.

R105, Rya really is a piece of shit. From having sex with Melanie Griffith when she was BFFs with Tatum O'Neal, not raising Tatum at all and slapping her when she won the Oscars, is there anything positive about him that has ever been revealed? This is the same man that HIT ON his own daughter at his girlfriend's funeral because he couldn't recognizer her.

Redmond has been abusing drugs since he was 11 or 12 years old. In the documentary about Farrah that aired around the time she died, Redmond was in jail and had to be escorted in handcuffs and shackles to see his mom for the last time.

I guess in a way it was poetic/symbolic that O’Neal’s house burned to the ground after it being a place of heartache, abuse and destruction.

Farrah was an American pop culture phenomenon for just 1-2 years there, ‘76-‘77. Absolute fame and millions of fans. But that was it. She was a has been soon after that. Doesn’t really equal Marilyn Monroe.

That’s some sad shit r106

Between Ryan shit genes, wonder what it’s in Farrah’s background/family history

I would say 76-80 was her heyday but reinvented herself as a tv movie queen in the 80s. I thought she was very good in exterminates. The Burning Bed was a huge tv movie in 1984 and spotlighted domestic violence awareness in a way it really hadn’t been before.

Lee Majors tried to take the blame for her quitting Charlie’s angels by telling the press he didn’t want her working long hours and wanted a traditional wife, but the truth was she wanted to do movies.

Farrah’s parents were both in their 90’s when they died and she had a pretty stable home life. She had an older sister who was close to a decade older than her who died at 62 of lung cancer.

I actually like the looks she has in OPs pic - but on closer inspection, wow that's a LOT of makeup.

Was that brown body makeup or bronzer? They blended it really well but whew. Literally equal to a drag queen.

[quote] Linda Carter

Oh, dear.

Pic on the left, she's wearing a turtleneck. Both pics, she's very tan. It was a thing in the 70's with iodine and baby oil.

Her father outlived his wife and both daughters (and I believe a grandchild from the sister). So sad for him.

One thing Farrah maintained was her 'deep faith' in the Catholic religion. Like Mario Lopez, Fawcett had said early on in her superstardom that she attended mass every morning being a devout Catholic, and said the Rosary once a week. Once she was diagnosed with cancer she did say she did the Rosary every single day (she could not physically attend mass) and had a priest come in to hear her confessions and give her communion once a week. I believe it was the same Priest who did her funeral mass.

That was something else her nephew fought about with O'Neal. Farrah had said she wanted to be buried in the 'family plot', alongside her sister and her mother who both pre-deceased her, in the Corpus Christie area. O'Neal said no - she was to be buried in LA's Westwood Memorial Park, so 'fans' can pay their respects to her (totally against her wishes). He bought two plots - he's now next to her. Again, for some reason, the judge ruled in his favor on this one.

[quote]Farrah was an American pop culture phenomenon for just 1-2 years there, ‘76-‘77. Absolute fame and millions of fans. But that was it.

Which is exactly what I said. However, she absolutely was as big as Marilyn Monroe in 76-77. There is no doubt about that. For those two years, she was the most famous woman in the world.

Iodine? What's this?

Baby oil, yes, absolutely. Baby oil to get a "deep" tan was still a thing in the early to mid 80s when I was in high school, but I never heard of people/women using iodine.

And I grew up in Southern California, went to the beach every weekend with the parents as well.

[quote]Which is exactly what I said. However, she absolutely was as big as Marilyn Monroe in 76-77. There is no doubt about that. For those two years, she was the most famous woman in the world.

I was around in 1976-77 and I remember the shock of Monroe's death in 1962.

Farrah she was NOT as big as Marilyn was. Not at all.. Marilyn was a movie star, not a TV star. Her every move was reported by the press. Her erratic behavior in the early 1960s was front-page newsworthy. Her firing from Fox was a sensation.

[quote]For those two years, she was the most famous woman in the world.

No she was not.

If we're talking about celebrities, it was Elizabeth Taylor during those years. Liz&Dick were the darlings of the press with constant stories about them. Their remarriage and divorce during those years insured that.

Farrah was massively popular, she was a pop phenomenon. But she was no where near what Marilyn was or for that matter Liz Taylor.

I would place Farrah's pop culture status in 1977 on par with Twiggy's 10 years earlier. Two very different ladies but both made a big impact in the culture. But as big as Marilyn? No.

How many nieces and nephews did Farrah have?

I remember when was in middle school, Farrah Fawcett became a 'star'. I remember buying every magazine with her on it, as I wanted to know everything about her (remember those horrible sterling silver 'faucet' necklaces she was advertising, trying to play off her last name ? Those ads were everywhere. I wonder who thought that was a good idea).

Anyhow, I remember one magazine (I think it was PEOPLE) had her on the cover and the inside article began something like : "A star like Farrah Fawcett blazes into our universe as often as Haley's Comet. Not since Marilyn Monroe has Hollywood had a phenomenon quite like Fawcett." (I believe I still have that somewhere).

2 nephews r120. One died in 1990 at 32.

Anyone who denies the sheer scope of Farrah’s fame at the height of her career, is either being disingenuous or simply wasn’t alive at that time. And I say this as a HUGE Marilyn Monroe fan. There was no one on the planet more written about, talked about, photographed or commodified than her, after the poster and Charlie’s Angels hit big. These things are actually measurable. She must hold a record for most magazine covers alone. And the merchandising was off the charts. It really was a phenomenon to behold. Yeah it didn’t last. The backlash a couple of years later was just as intense as the quick burst of fame had been. But saying someone is “famous” isn’t the same as saying they are beloved or respected or a person of substance. Kim Kardashian is ridiculously famous. But everyone I know seems to hold her in contempt.

r118, I'm from Chicago, and in the mid 60s to early 80's some people would slather a mixture of iodine with baby oil to achieve a deep tan. According to Google, it's made a resurgence.

She was a huge star based on one poster and a cheesy tv show. But, her stardom was really only tabloid stardom. She certainly couldn't turn that into hit movies.

r124 it looks like that practice died out right around the mid 80s, so that would make sense why I wouldn't have heard about that.

The baby oil thing definitely was a thing for a looooong time though. That was what all the girls would use. I'll bet their skin looks like utter shit right now.

R126 Well, a lot of them are dead.

So, yeah, their skin isn't looking good.

[quote]She must hold a record for most magazine covers alone.

Overall Gisele holds the record. For actresses it's Julia Roberts. Lady Diana is up there too.

[quote] Overall Gisele holds the record.

How many magazine covers does one horse need!?

[quote]If we're talking about celebrities, it was Elizabeth Taylor during those years.

It's silly to think that Taylor was bigger than Farrah in 1976. Taylor's movie career was pretty much over with by that point. In 1976-77 Taylor starred in The Blue Bird and A Little Night Music, both of which bombed at the box-office. Young men barely knew of her, much less put up Liz Taylor posters in their bedroom.

R130 I was responding to "she was the most famous woman in the world".

Do you understand what that means?

In the world, the most recognized actress would have been Taylor, with a legacy of 30 years of world-wide fame behind her.

The most famous woman IN THE WORLD in 1976-77 was NOT Farrah Fawcett.

This has haunted me for years.

When I was a young, single, Manhattan girl at the height of Farrah’s fame, I went to a party with some friends and as soon as we walked in, it was obvious we had chosen badly, party-wise. We didn’t know anyone there and it was wall to wall frat boys, which wasn’t our demographic of choice.

There was a TV on and images of FF were playing on repeat and some guy yelled out “ I’d eat a mile of shit to get to her asshole”.

I had to turn the idea of eating a mile of shit for any reason over and over in my mind, and it lived there, as the ( old) kids say,rent free in my mind for years.

Then when she died from anal cancer, it just seemed like …….I don’t know what it seemed like.

Thank you for allowing me to share.

There are really three Queen Empresses of Tabloid Coverage/MegaFame:

Elizabeth Taylor

Jackie On Assistance

Princess Di

R133 Correct.

Oh....Princess Grace would be up there, too.

Jennifer Aniston is a Hall of Famer as well.

Bat Boy.

Jennifer Aniston circa 1995 was what Farrah was in 1977 in terms of fame.

Madonna was the most famous of all

Not even close r136

Ah! We have a delusional Farrah Fan in R138!

Farrah WAS very hot...for a couple years. Poster/Charlies Angels/Furor Over Her Quitting Charlies Angels...then, bomb movies and some slight retribution with some serious TV/stage work. And, a messy relationship with serial asshole Ryan O'Neal. Then she had the misfortune to die the same time as MJ.

Aniston has been a tabloid queen for almost 30 years. She is THE poster child IT Girl for Gen X woman. She still gets coverage for not much of anything and the tabloids will always find a way to rehash the Aniston vs Jolie Feud.

As for the hair war, Farrah's was more distinctive but the "Rachel" is still around on the heads of many aging Gen X women.

Liz, Jackie and Diana are in the Hall of Fame though.

And as far as fame goes, QEII was in a class by herself.

Aniston's endless pregnancies and Cher's endless sad last days.

R138 - Jennifer Aniston was everywhere in 1995. Friends was huge then. And so was “the Rachel”.

R107, and a real ick factor was Ryan sharing his bed with pre-teen/teen Tatum and having his lady loves sleep with them. Whenever Ryan and lady love would get amorous, they'd kick Tatum out of the room, then invite her back post-coitus. When Tatum found Ryan in bed with her bestie, Melanie Griffith, Ryan invited Tatum to join them in bed.