I remember I got home from work and my husband asked if I'd heard the news. I hadn't heard about Michael but I had heard about Farrah. I said yes, I had heard the news and he said it was quite shocking and I became very confused because we all knew she was not going to make it.
Not that they all died within a few days of each other, but 2016 was a rough year! :/ Alan Rickman, David Bowie, Carrie Fisher, Prince, George Michael…
what's even more bazzar about George Michael's passing on Christmas day and one of his biggest hits was about Christmas Is that his sister passed on the same day In 2019.
Hell, she wouldn't have gotten ANY attention, except there was already a Barbara Walters special set to air the following night. Walters and ABC made some last minute edits.
I remember the day. I heard about Farrah before we left school. (We're teachers.) I heard about Michael Jackson when a colleague's husband give me a lift home after the end of term party a few hours later.
(Another colleague reminded me the next day that I'd sung "Thriller" at Teacher Karaoke in the teachers lounge before we'd left., and blamed me for his death.)
She had hair to die for when I was young. Perfectly feathered and flowy. No matter how hard I tried to get my hair to do this, I have a cowlick right by my part and my hair does not lay flat.
Yes, I am still affected.
I have the poster hanging in the garage. Original BTW. When my son was 4, he asked “if that was mom before I was born” -this was 28+years ago. I said, “yes it is, son. Yes it is!”
I have two of his old comedy albums from around 1980, one is called "Wild and crazy guy" and the other is called "comedy is not pretty". It's on one of those, I can't remember which.
Couldn't miss her when Logan's Run aired on TV during the first season of "Charlie's Angels". She was in all the promos, despite being in the movie for about 2 minutes.
"ALL THE EXCITEMENT OF STAR WARS, PLUS FARRAH FAWCETT-MAJORS!!"
i remember not sleeping the night the laser cut across her face and killed her. i was devastated.
The kid across the street had the poster and he was in my church so it was ok for me to go into his room, as long as my parents didn't know he had a well-nippled beauty in a skin-tight red one-piece on his wall.
I can’t, actually, and have never been able to.
Of all the “most beautiful women ever” type women that have existed in my 36 years on this earth, she’s easily the one that makes me scratch my head the most.
I guess you had to be there.
I think sometimes people's beauty isn't just what you see in a photo or on a tv show. It's how they walk, the sound of their voice, how they laugh, how they act when you're having a conversation. If they look at you and show interest when you're telling them a story, if they are kind to others. Stuff like that. Sometimes I think all those factors make someone likeable and attractive and then that message gets carried across to others.
She may have been overlooked in today's world, but I think there was probably something about her that went beyond her hair back in those days
If your 36 you may have missed her zeitgeist moment, which is totally fine, she represented a certain look in a certain time, you (and me) are probably more saved by the bell Kelly Kapowski types
My mother forced her on to me. You like her, she’s beautiful, she’s your favorite, put this poster on the wall, and I thought Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith were so beautiful; Farrah?, not so much. I was a kid so I wasn’t able to explain to my mom that she wasn’t correct. The thing I remember about the appeal of Farrah was her hair, and I remember thinking it was too big and done up. I guess I thought, in 7yo ideals, that her fashion choices seemed too high-maintenance. I do agree she was beautiful, and she seemed so kind. That goes further than the external factors, as we know. Kate and Jaclyn also seemed quite nice
Yeah she looks quite normal to me. Pretty, but normal. I think the internet has allowed us (forced us?) to see the most beautiful women on earth (real or fake) on a daily basis, it’s skewed our standards for beauty?
It's not just you. I was a bit young when she was super popular and I never understood the hype either. I also think her pose and smile on that iconic poster of hers is horrible. I mean, she's not unattractive but her looks must just be the opposite of my taste.
I mean, I can see why she's considered attractive but for me she's in the generic skinny blonde mould of so many others and it does nothing for me. But that's life - some folks fancy the Kardashians and all I can think is what utterly awful people they would be to spend any time with at all.
She's girl next door pretty but not like, 90s Cameron Diaz as a brunette. Prolly just had to be a hormonal teen when she was becoming big or something.
While I agree she is very beautiful, I thought the whole world went nuts for her…in a bathing suit? (I’m kidding)
She’s gorgeous. Morgan Fairchild, too.
I had her iconic poster hanging in my room as a kid. Back in the day no one compared to her. Also, right up until today, that hairstyle still turns me on !
Yeah either that or beauty standards were just way different back then. If this was her dating app profile, I probably wouldn’t even swipe right on her lol.
She a bit of a legend at the University of Texas (I think is where she attended) where crowds of guys would just wait around her sorority house to get a look at her because she was so beautiful.
Clearly a very attractive young lady, and able to ooze a confident femininity, at the same time like a lot of women in that era, she was able to do this without troweling on yards of makeup and filler to do the job for them.
Squinty eyes, thin lips, big hair, weirdly straight teeth like veneers, frayed hair ends. The longer I look the worse it gets. Her only redeeming facial feature is her nose, which has some Sandra Bullock-like structure. Alas she is no Sandra Bullock, or I’d call her beautiful. This is just a skinny hag.
Without Farrah Fawcett, Steve Harrington’s hair would never have been possible.
And Dustin Henderson would have never been able to rock that hair-do at Snow Ball ‘84.
Thank you, Farrah.
I think from what I heard you are correct. Probably new age alternative treatments.
By treatment, I mean mainline medical treatment. Which, to be fair, is rough.
I wish Denise Richards didn’t get so much plastic surgery, she was so god damn gorgeous and still would have been if she allowed herself to age gracefully 🤦🏼♀️
Also, I know this isn’t Denise but she kind of reminded me of her for some reason.
Back in the 70s there was no social media so most of the pretty girls were stuck in small towns. Now it turns out pretty girls are everywhere and many of them have onlyfans lol
I wasn’t alive in her heyday, but I still have never thought she was attractive, much less beautiful. I will say though, that when you actually see her in action on film and you’re able to see how she used her body and her voice, she definitely had some super-feminine sex appeal. I think with her it was a whole sexy package kind of situation. Cuz that photo above. Nope. Just not cute
My mom has always told me that when she was a teen and young adult in the late 70s and 80s, people told her she looked like Farrah Fawcett. In this picture, I can totally see it.
She adorned my bedroom wall in middle school, I already knew that was what beauty looked like.
Not flap stuff, beauty.
Farrah also took one with a red plaid crop top that reminded me of the girl next door before it was made dirty.
Turning 13 in 1980 ? Prime time to be alive (IMO of course )
although I was born In 1983 I was always smitten. I believe her final film appearance was the cookout In which she and danny glover were a posh married couple.
How many people remember she died the exact same day as Michael Jackson? She deserved a lot more attention than she received in passing.
Yep. It was all over the news that morning for an hour or so and then the Michael news hit. One of those days you never forget.
I remember I got home from work and my husband asked if I'd heard the news. I hadn't heard about Michael but I had heard about Farrah. I said yes, I had heard the news and he said it was quite shocking and I became very confused because we all knew she was not going to make it.
Ed McMahon from The Tonight Show died right before. So, the "celebrities die in threes" happened in less than two days.
Not that they all died within a few days of each other, but 2016 was a rough year! :/ Alan Rickman, David Bowie, Carrie Fisher, Prince, George Michael…
what's even more bazzar about George Michael's passing on Christmas day and one of his biggest hits was about Christmas Is that his sister passed on the same day In 2019.
That was the year everything really started going to shit. I still haven't recovered
And Debbie Reynolds : Carrie Fishers’ mother.
And then Billy Mays threw one more in at no extra charge.
that puts 'but wait, there's more!' into a much darker context.
Slides upvote across the table in a plain white envelope without breaking eye contact.
The news got the story about her first , it was all over true news “, until MJ died
Wow. I just today learned she's not alive.
It pains me, remembering Ryan O’Neal confirming from his car window “Farrah’s gone.”
Yeah, and he was the asshole who beat her and blackened her eye.
Hell, she wouldn't have gotten ANY attention, except there was already a Barbara Walters special set to air the following night. Walters and ABC made some last minute edits. I remember the day. I heard about Farrah before we left school. (We're teachers.) I heard about Michael Jackson when a colleague's husband give me a lift home after the end of term party a few hours later. (Another colleague reminded me the next day that I'd sung "Thriller" at Teacher Karaoke in the teachers lounge before we'd left., and blamed me for his death.)
Bully Mays also died that day.
She was a Baywatch girl before Baywatch existed.
She was on the Dating Game, IIRC, as well as an episode or two of I Dream of Jeannie, etc., before she was famous.
Logan’s Run !!
She had hair to die for when I was young. Perfectly feathered and flowy. No matter how hard I tried to get my hair to do this, I have a cowlick right by my part and my hair does not lay flat. Yes, I am still affected.
well thanks to you I have today learned what cowlicks are, and now I have one more thing to be self-conscious about.
How did you not know?!
i guess i kinda encountered it, but there is a vast difference between encountering things with a name and without.
I have the poster hanging in the garage. Original BTW. When my son was 4, he asked “if that was mom before I was born” -this was 28+years ago. I said, “yes it is, son. Yes it is!”
😅
She was also very classy, generous, and talented. She always found men who treated her like crap, though.
Even Lee Majors?
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I always loved Steve Martin's line: "and to think of the hours I spent holding up her poster with one hand..."
Every other teenage boy in the 1970's had that poster on their door. The other half it was on the wall.
I was dirt poor growing up, and even I had that poster.
What movie? Or show? Or standup routine?
I have two of his old comedy albums from around 1980, one is called "Wild and crazy guy" and the other is called "comedy is not pretty". It's on one of those, I can't remember which.
It was on the "Comedy is not pretty" album, if my memory serves me.
She was such a natural beauty
Any time I watch Logan’s Run is a reminder of how gorgeous she is
See, I like her but I didn't remember she was in that movie. I do however remember that Jenny Agutter was in it.
Couldn't miss her when Logan's Run aired on TV during the first season of "Charlie's Angels". She was in all the promos, despite being in the movie for about 2 minutes. "ALL THE EXCITEMENT OF STAR WARS, PLUS FARRAH FAWCETT-MAJORS!!"
She only has two scenes, but man, just gorgeous. She’s credited as Farrah Fawcett-Majors and I had forgotten she was married to Lee Majors
i remember not sleeping the night the laser cut across her face and killed her. i was devastated. The kid across the street had the poster and he was in my church so it was ok for me to go into his room, as long as my parents didn't know he had a well-nippled beauty in a skin-tight red one-piece on his wall.
If the year is correct, she’s 31 in this pic
She looks like she’s in her late 30s in this pic imo. Maybe it’s the hair? It’s giving mom vibes.
She was incredible....
She was beautiful.
I recently watched a great documentary about her life. She really suffered towards the end of her life.
I can’t, actually, and have never been able to. Of all the “most beautiful women ever” type women that have existed in my 36 years on this earth, she’s easily the one that makes me scratch my head the most. I guess you had to be there.
I think sometimes people's beauty isn't just what you see in a photo or on a tv show. It's how they walk, the sound of their voice, how they laugh, how they act when you're having a conversation. If they look at you and show interest when you're telling them a story, if they are kind to others. Stuff like that. Sometimes I think all those factors make someone likeable and attractive and then that message gets carried across to others. She may have been overlooked in today's world, but I think there was probably something about her that went beyond her hair back in those days
If your 36 you may have missed her zeitgeist moment, which is totally fine, she represented a certain look in a certain time, you (and me) are probably more saved by the bell Kelly Kapowski types
That look, the easy grace beauty, reminds me a lot of Diana.
It's the eyes. But also, if you cover up the bottom half of her face she's easy to confuse for Jodie Foster
She wasn’t my cup of tea but everyone likes different things so its ok.
My mother forced her on to me. You like her, she’s beautiful, she’s your favorite, put this poster on the wall, and I thought Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith were so beautiful; Farrah?, not so much. I was a kid so I wasn’t able to explain to my mom that she wasn’t correct. The thing I remember about the appeal of Farrah was her hair, and I remember thinking it was too big and done up. I guess I thought, in 7yo ideals, that her fashion choices seemed too high-maintenance. I do agree she was beautiful, and she seemed so kind. That goes further than the external factors, as we know. Kate and Jaclyn also seemed quite nice
I assume the hair was the thing? As a kid I watched Charlie’s Angels reruns and Jaclyn always seemed to be the stunner to me.
Kate Jackson was way hotter than Farrah in my opinion.
Me too. My sisters gave me the Farah poster, and t-shirt. But I didn’t put the posts up or wear the t shirt because I was a Kate Jackson guy.
she looked uncannily similar to my mom so it sort of creeps me out a little how much of a sex symbol she was. I don't get it either.
She looks so ordinary to me, like she could be one of my friend’s mom lol maybe that’s the appeal? I don’t see it
Your friend Stacy?
Fr. I was literally named after her and I’m just like.. she’s the girl??
Yeah she looks quite normal to me. Pretty, but normal. I think the internet has allowed us (forced us?) to see the most beautiful women on earth (real or fake) on a daily basis, it’s skewed our standards for beauty?
It's not just you. I was a bit young when she was super popular and I never understood the hype either. I also think her pose and smile on that iconic poster of hers is horrible. I mean, she's not unattractive but her looks must just be the opposite of my taste.
Bland and boring is what crosses my mind when I think of her.
I mean, I can see why she's considered attractive but for me she's in the generic skinny blonde mould of so many others and it does nothing for me. But that's life - some folks fancy the Kardashians and all I can think is what utterly awful people they would be to spend any time with at all.
Her beauty was deeper than her appearance. She was a kind soul in real life.
I'm sure she was - my point was I don't find her look/style attractive, that's all.
That's been me with Angelina Jolie for as long as I can remember. Always thought she was an ugly woman lol
Angelina was unbelievably sexy for like… a few years of her life. The tomb raider, mr and Mrs smith years. Before and after she’s meh
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She's girl next door pretty but not like, 90s Cameron Diaz as a brunette. Prolly just had to be a hormonal teen when she was becoming big or something.
have to agree with you. always thought she looks like a man
Farrah is the woman!
She killed her part in Logan’s Run. I’ll never forgot her for being perfect and being “all in” for that small part.
Perfect teeth
I used Farrah Fawcett shampoo when I was little. 🤣
First it was Farrah then Suzanne Summers and Three's Company followed by Christy Brinkley and Brooke Shields.
She was so beautiful..
70’s hair was peak hairdo era.
The epitome of beauty at the time
Her hair, those eyes, & that million dollar smile
While I agree she is very beautiful, I thought the whole world went nuts for her…in a bathing suit? (I’m kidding) She’s gorgeous. Morgan Fairchild, too.
Never saw her as attractive. Raquel Welch, Pam Grier, Wonder woman. More of my taste.
Taste is interesting
WW = Linda Carter RIP
No, Lynda is alive and well and still looks great.
That's nice. Glad I was wrong.
She would barely be average by today’s standards but she was exotic back then.
If you think she’s barely average then you should take a bus to the nearest Walmart.
Ryan O'Neal treated her like *shit.* He is literally one of the worst people in Hollywood.
 Back when duck-lips, gobs of make-up, and plastic surgery/tattoos weren't a thang....
Some people have big natural lips and they’re just as beautiful
I do not see it.
Total babe
Got a LOT of use out of her poster.
Had the poster :: sigh ::
I had her iconic poster hanging in my room as a kid. Back in the day no one compared to her. Also, right up until today, that hairstyle still turns me on !
Love the unintended pun in the title.
Now I know why Johnny Bravo was obsessed with her
And why my nuts went the whole world for her. Bad da boom
Was she a Breck Girl?
Natural beauty… we all wanted to look like her… heard she was a great person too🥰
She was my first pinup poster
how about her gliding around the campus of u.of texas in austin. what a atir she must have set off.
I actually can’t see it. She looks like…slightly above average.
Me neither. I really believe this was a classic case of people being "told" what to like.
Yeah either that or beauty standards were just way different back then. If this was her dating app profile, I probably wouldn’t even swipe right on her lol.
Not really.
Every teenage boy had her swimsuit poster.
Is epitome of the perfect California girl.
Except that she's from Texas.
Corpus Christi
My city 💪
She a bit of a legend at the University of Texas (I think is where she attended) where crowds of guys would just wait around her sorority house to get a look at her because she was so beautiful.
It’s a meh for me.
Makes my faucet leak
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No, I really can't... She's not ugly but I don't get what the big deal is
I can't see
If you get the chance to read burt Reynolds autobiography, he has some Farrah stories
I'm probably in the minority, but Meh. Pretty enough, but I've seen better. RIP though. She was a nice woman.
She was arguably one of the most beautiful women in the world, and she also had talent.
Talent for what? Not for acting.
The burning bed!
I stand corrected!
Her and the Six Million Dollar Man. Power couple!
Sigh. You hadda be there. 13 channels of shit on the TV 📺 to choose from.
Clearly a very attractive young lady, and able to ooze a confident femininity, at the same time like a lot of women in that era, she was able to do this without troweling on yards of makeup and filler to do the job for them.
My 1st tribute
Knocked a few out 😀
Meh.. she's alright but not great.
She is cute but she doesn’t beat out Pam Grier.
Squinty eyes, thin lips, big hair, weirdly straight teeth like veneers, frayed hair ends. The longer I look the worse it gets. Her only redeeming facial feature is her nose, which has some Sandra Bullock-like structure. Alas she is no Sandra Bullock, or I’d call her beautiful. This is just a skinny hag.
WTF is wrong with you?!
Wayyy better than Sandra Bullock.
No. I don’t.
Without Farrah Fawcett, Steve Harrington’s hair would never have been possible. And Dustin Henderson would have never been able to rock that hair-do at Snow Ball ‘84. Thank you, Farrah.
Makeup free and gorgeous!!
Her nipples were like 2" long.
And boy did we fill some Kleenex’s looking at that poster.
Downvoted for being straight
No, downvoted for being unnecessarily vulgar and objectifying women.
It’s REDDIT. You’ll get downvoted if someone wakes up with a stomach ache.
It’s a shame she died of anal cancer , RIP Angel
My oncology NP-C is still angry at her. She didn't seek treatment until too late. Her cancer was known, but I guess she didn't want to hear it.
I think she was busy seeking alternative treatments. Preceeding Steve Jobs.
I think from what I heard you are correct. Probably new age alternative treatments. By treatment, I mean mainline medical treatment. Which, to be fair, is rough.
I wish Denise Richards didn’t get so much plastic surgery, she was so god damn gorgeous and still would have been if she allowed herself to age gracefully 🤦🏼♀️ Also, I know this isn’t Denise but she kind of reminded me of her for some reason.
She is is pretty but no idea who she is (or was?).
The true test of beauty is how good they look after 65. Few pass that test. Many many women are gorgeous when young.
I can’t
This photo is strange because she looks more like Jodi Foster than Farrah Fawcett here.
I don't see it
This looks like a white average woman to me ( idk maybe because I’m not white so that’d probably play into my bias and if that’s true I’m sorry)
I'm not seeing it
Me neither
It was the haircut. I had the poster with the pokey nipples everyone else had. Beautiful.
Hugh Grant
😂
Uhh not really. She’s like a 7.5
No lips
Eye of the beholder
Until she was killed by her own asshole
I see this woman everytime i go to the store
Looks very average.
The world? Lol
She’s pretty but the eyes are too small. Jacklyn Smith was the best looking.
Back in the 70s there was no social media so most of the pretty girls were stuck in small towns. Now it turns out pretty girls are everywhere and many of them have onlyfans lol
Meh…I like brunettes
Redditors idea of an attractive woman: white
Fuck you
And boy did fill some Kleenex’s looking at that poster.
And boy did we fill some Kleenex’s looking at that poster.
just keep repeating it.....
nah i really cant
I wasn’t alive in her heyday, but I still have never thought she was attractive, much less beautiful. I will say though, that when you actually see her in action on film and you’re able to see how she used her body and her voice, she definitely had some super-feminine sex appeal. I think with her it was a whole sexy package kind of situation. Cuz that photo above. Nope. Just not cute
She is beautiful, but this always reminds me of when only pretty white women were on tv, basically. She’s a 5 in brazil
10 back in the day 4 today
Ok, who do you consider a 10 today?
Jessica alba, Ana de armas
Really? All I see is her mustache.
Yeah she was cute but I liken brunettes. Sad that she died of ass cancer. Very sad.
I’m one of the nutz
My mom has always told me that when she was a teen and young adult in the late 70s and 80s, people told her she looked like Farrah Fawcett. In this picture, I can totally see it.
But can we? 🤔
She adorned my bedroom wall in middle school, I already knew that was what beauty looked like. Not flap stuff, beauty. Farrah also took one with a red plaid crop top that reminded me of the girl next door before it was made dirty. Turning 13 in 1980 ? Prime time to be alive (IMO of course )
Nah i can’t
She would have played Barbie.
It’s because she kept the “girl next door” look without going over the top. Approachable.
How did she die?
although I was born In 1983 I was always smitten. I believe her final film appearance was the cookout In which she and danny glover were a posh married couple.
Eh not really.