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Originally Posted by TinMan
Huh. I had no idea she spent time here in Dallas before her career took off. I’m kind of surprised I hadn’t heard that before…I’m sure local media will play that up over the next few days (the part time modeling and waitressing part, not the turning tricks part).
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Yes she was in Dallas in 1962, after separating from her San Diego high school sweetheart turn husband she married in 1959.
She left San Diego and her job as a TV weather presenter to come to Dallas with her two children.
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After her separation from James Welch, she moved with her two children to Dallas, where she made a "precarious living" as a model for Neiman Marcus and as a cocktail waitress.
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Then she was contemplating moving to NYC for modeling and instead moved to LA for acting where she took on her ex husband last name Welch as her professional name, since her real last name is Tejada, her father is Bolivian.
Farrah was not a true American Sweetheart.
When she was at UT Austin in 1965 as a Freshman she was doing nude modeling to pay for college and pulling train with the football team and the sophomore QB, she was even voted top 10 most beautiful girls of UT Austin, which was unheard of for a Freshman to win the title.
When Farrah was voted one of UT’s ten most beautiful women—an unheard-of honor for a freshman—her reputation spread throughout the state. Guys from other Texas colleges would take weekend trips to Austin on the chance they would see her emerge from the Tri Delt sorority house she was a member of. (Texas Monthly)