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Many people probably forgot that Farrah Fawcett was fighting a major battle against intestinal cancer. Just recently you only seemed to ever hear about Patrick Swayze and Jade Goody, cancer’s other high profile sufferers. And it is so unpredictable – there is Farrah still fighting after two years, Patrick is still hanging on after a year of pancreatic cancer and Jade – dead within a few short months from diagnosis to the end.

Farrah was recently at a clinic in Germany to try alternative therapies in her quest to beat this insidious disease, by all accounts things are not looking good for her and this news is very sad indeed.

It is surprising how many young people do not know Farrah or have ever heard of her. Those of us who do, know that Farrah was the icon of the 1970′s; bigger than Posh is now, and much more desirable than Pamela Anderson ever tried to be.

Women, and girls, everywhere tried – but never managed – to emulate that hairstyle for themselves. What was not known until tried was that it was impossible to maintain that style for even 20 minutes without a fleet of hair stylists armed with blow dryers and spray. Even I drove my Mum crazy with my own school-girl attempt to ‘be like Farrah’.

Farrah was unbelievably perfect to women everywhere and yet they all tried to copy her style – that’s how she came across in those days before botox, liposuction, facial fillers and hair extensions influenced celebrity ‘beauty’…she was the real thing and, crazy as it seemed, her fans believed they could look like her too.

I don’t think anyone pulled it off though. There is only one Farrah Fawcett.

Farrah Trivia:

* Farrah Fawcett was once ‘Farrah Fawcett Majors’ when she was married to ‘Six Million Dollar Man’ actor, Lee Majors. She dropped the ‘Majors’ after their divorce.

* She was a minor actress before getting her big break in ‘Charlies Angels’. Her fame came after her husband, Lee Majors, made it big in the ‘Six Million Dollar Man’ tv series. She caught the attention of producers after a photo shoot with her husband.

* Farrah can be seen pre-Angels in an episode of ‘Marcus Welby M.D’.

* Farrahs hair was naturally dark, mousy blonde.

* Her famous fly-away hair style had to be retouched and styled every ten minutes during filming of Charlies Angels as her naturally straight hair went limp very quickly.

* Farrah broke free of the pin-up image when she acted on Broadway in the play ‘Extremities’ – about a rape victim fighting back against her attacker. She also acted in the film adaptation and earned rave reviews.

* She became a champion for sufferers of domestic abuse after starring in the film ‘The Burning Bed’ – the true story of an abused wife who killed her husband.

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