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"I feel like Alice in Wonderland, its so surreal. I feel like a blonde nothingness, alone in my own body ...... Today its not drugs that fill my body, its despair." — Farrah Fawcett
i don't quite remember when my love of farrah fawcett first began. looking back, it just seems to have always been there. in first grade, my classmate glenda had all of these pictures of farrah that she'd bring to school. she claimed her father worked in the biz and that was how she came to possess them all. i was definitely jealous. not of her father working in the biz but that she had so many pictures of farrah. there was nothing special about these photos. they basically looked like they had been ripped out of a magazine, but that didn't matter to me. lucky for me, glenda gave me a few of these pictures most likely because i nagged her. hehe
i didn't have the infamous poster, instead i had a black and white 8x10 of the poster that i got at a flea market along with a picture of steve austin. they were a couple then so it seemed only fitting. i did have several other posters of her though. i remember begging my mom for one particular poster i saw at spencer's gifts. it was from the playboy photo shoot she did in the 80s. i told my mom that there was only one left and after causing a scene in the mall she finally gave in. i was so happy. i also had photo albums filled with pictures of farrah i had cut out of magzines hidden away in my bureau drawer. they were my dirty little secrets.
while most boys my age were collecting baseball cards, i collected charlie's angels cards which i still have. if you turned the cards over you could make a picture of the angels. sadly, i never did get a complete set and to make matters worse, my dog rags chewed a few of the cards. however, that didn't stop me from putting the picture puzzle together. i always saved jill's [farrah] pieces for last.
i wasn't allowed to stay up to watch charlie's angels when it originally aired, although i did manage to sneak a couple of episodes here and there. i remember seeing the cult classic "angels in chains" at my grandmothers. it's still my all-time favorite episode. and thanks to cable tv, especially tnt/tbs i was able to catch all the reruns after school. i was always excited when it was a farrah episode.
as i got older my love for farrah never faded. i'd still watch the tv movies she did, bought the magazines she was in, and even started buying farrah-dise on ebay. yes, i admit i bought the farrah styling head although we turned it into the jamie lee curtis head for d's halloween party last year. by far, the most bizarre thing i bought was probably a box of farrah heads. i ended up decorating a christmas tree with them.
when i heard the news about farrah today i was definitely sad. i'm not really sure what it was about her that i liked so much. i just did. and still do. she meant a lot to me growing up in ways i still don't quite understand and perhaps never will. what i do know is that farrah was an icon. viva la icon.
just where will i end up next is anyone's guess.
stay gold & be well…
i don't quite remember when my love of farrah fawcett first began. looking back, it just seems to have always been there. in first grade, my classmate glenda had all of these pictures of farrah that she'd bring to school. she claimed her father worked in the biz and that was how she came to possess them all. i was definitely jealous. not of her father working in the biz but that she had so many pictures of farrah. there was nothing special about these photos. they basically looked like they had been ripped out of a magazine, but that didn't matter to me. lucky for me, glenda gave me a few of these pictures most likely because i nagged her. hehe
i didn't have the infamous poster, instead i had a black and white 8x10 of the poster that i got at a flea market along with a picture of steve austin. they were a couple then so it seemed only fitting. i did have several other posters of her though. i remember begging my mom for one particular poster i saw at spencer's gifts. it was from the playboy photo shoot she did in the 80s. i told my mom that there was only one left and after causing a scene in the mall she finally gave in. i was so happy. i also had photo albums filled with pictures of farrah i had cut out of magzines hidden away in my bureau drawer. they were my dirty little secrets.
while most boys my age were collecting baseball cards, i collected charlie's angels cards which i still have. if you turned the cards over you could make a picture of the angels. sadly, i never did get a complete set and to make matters worse, my dog rags chewed a few of the cards. however, that didn't stop me from putting the picture puzzle together. i always saved jill's [farrah] pieces for last.
i wasn't allowed to stay up to watch charlie's angels when it originally aired, although i did manage to sneak a couple of episodes here and there. i remember seeing the cult classic "angels in chains" at my grandmothers. it's still my all-time favorite episode. and thanks to cable tv, especially tnt/tbs i was able to catch all the reruns after school. i was always excited when it was a farrah episode.
as i got older my love for farrah never faded. i'd still watch the tv movies she did, bought the magazines she was in, and even started buying farrah-dise on ebay. yes, i admit i bought the farrah styling head although we turned it into the jamie lee curtis head for d's halloween party last year. by far, the most bizarre thing i bought was probably a box of farrah heads. i ended up decorating a christmas tree with them.
when i heard the news about farrah today i was definitely sad. i'm not really sure what it was about her that i liked so much. i just did. and still do. she meant a lot to me growing up in ways i still don't quite understand and perhaps never will. what i do know is that farrah was an icon. viva la icon.
just where will i end up next is anyone's guess.
stay gold & be well…
2 comments:
She seriously rocked.
You are the first person I thought of when I heard she passed. She seemed like the cool big sister to me, with the huge smile and sweetness. viva la icon.
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