Despite her meteoric rise to fame, there’s still a lot about Fawcett that many don’t know.
We’ve uncovered some little-known details about the star’s colorful and unique life.
Curious about Fawcett’s life, from her beginning to her career in the spotlight?
Here’s the untold truth of Farrah Fawcett.
It was a week."
But, of course, as Fawcett reiterated with a laugh, “That only lasted a week.”
It turns out, however, she was known forbeautysince childhood.
“I always felt so self-conscious,” Fawcett told the magazine.
“I wanted people not to look at me because so many people kept looking at me.”
He phoned her at school and tried to convince her to quit the university and move to Hollywood.
Fawcett asked Mirisch to phone her father.
But Mirisch refused to give up and the calls kept coming.
Fawcett finally accepted Mirisch’s offer as she completed her junior year.
She had some photos taken in a Texas park by a photographer for Texas Student Publications.
When Fawcett picked Bachelor No.
2, the three hopeful men broke out into a full-fledged fistfight.
However, it was revealed that the whole thing was planned.
Each move of the fight was choreographed, and the entire thing was staged.
Nevertheless, it definitely made for some entertaining TV!
The poster sold millions of copies around the world.
She eventually pulled out the now-famous red bathing suit.
She once claimed that a sandy beach was “the greatest dead skin cleanser” (viaBeauticate).
She often opted for neutral eyeshadows and soft lip shades.
Fawcett recalled, “It was love at first sight, I guess.”
She went on to remember “melting into a thousand pieces” when she met Majors.
Sadly, things didn’t work out between the two.
The couple separated in 1979 and were officially divorced three years later.
It’s very difficult with careers like that.
This business is tough."
It’s easy to see why the relationship was hard to maintain.
It was just lightning in a bottle."
And how did Fawcett get this life-changing role?
Atennis storylinewas even included for Fawcett’s character.
As they say in Hollywood, it really is all about networking.
That is, until the star took over a lead role in the off-Broadway play “Extremities.”
TheLos Angeles Timesrecounted her surprising theatrical debut in 1983.
She ended up getting “some of the best reviews of her career.”
Unfortunately, her only other foray into theater occurred in 2003 and ended in disaster.
Fawcett was playing the lead role in a Broadway play called “Bobbi Boland.”
However, the production was canceled after just one week of previews.
He went on to spill the beans on how the look was created.
People went crazy over it."
And Edwards wasn’t wrong.
“The Farrah” practically started a hair revolution for women in the ’70s that is still acknowledged today.
It’s clear that her famous ‘do isn’t going to be forgotten any time soon.
In 1985, Fawcett gave birth to their son, Redmond, according toWomen’s Health.
Over the years, the couple’s relationship with their son became increasingly difficult.
In an interview withVanity Fair, O’Neal was honest about his son’s troubled life.
“He got arrested in prison with heroin in his pocket!
So many arrests, the poor, stupid boy!
He’s been in rehabs all over the United States and Mexico.”
It’s scrub the couple and their son didn’t have the easiest relationship.
Her career had also dwindled, leading her to a series of TV movies.
In 1997, Fawcett madean infamous appearanceon the “Late Show with David Letterman.”
However, when O’Neal spoke toVanity Fairin 2009, he denied that Fawcett had a substance abuse problem.
He said, “When I saw her on Letterman, I thought she was acting.”
It was met with either bad or lukewarm reviews from most publications, including theLos Angeles TimesandVariety.
In a scathing review by theNew York Post, the show was criticized for being too boring.
Weatherly decided to use the phrase in a song.
They took trains."
When Gladys Knight and the Pips recorded a version later that year, the song rose to No.
1, and the rest is history.
In fact, after just one season, she wanted to leave the show behind for good.
One of the reasons may have had to do with money.
Her manager Jay Bernstein denied that rumor, saying she simply wanted to leave.
“She is asking to leave,” he toldThe Washington Postin 1977.
Fawcett did quit the show that year.
A lawsuit followed, in which she was sued for $7 million.
“The whole lawsuit almost sank me,” she later toldPeoplein a 1979 interview.
“People thought I was really pretentious, and for months no one would touch me.”
Fawcett did later agree to return to guest star on the show in Seasons 3 and 4.
In an interview withPeoplein 1976, Majors and Fawcett happily discussed the arrangement.
As it turned out, Fawcett probably wasn’t as happy as she’d claimed.
“Lee was silent.
He didn’t talk.
He didn’t support my leaving the show,” she shared.
“He thought I should come home and make the dinner.
In 2014, photographer Robert Sebreeexplainedhow Fawcett had created a sculpture inspired by his portraits of her.
The museum explained how the actor had been mentored by the sculptor.
In turn, she became his muse, and he sculpted and drew her multiple times.
“She was excellent,” Katie Robinson Edwards, the museum’s curator toldThe Texas Standardat the time.
I think she was always a little bit better in sculpture.”
Stewart went on to explain how their friendship only got stronger with time.
They helped each other get through their pregnancies and their breakups.
They helped each other with their sons.
And even though they didn’t always live close by, they always found time for each other.
However, in Farrah Fawcett’s case, her mother, Pauline, meant the world to her.
The pair were incredibly close when Fawcett was a child.
Even after Fawcett left home for college, she was hesitant to leave her mother behind.
Her mother ended up staying with her at the university for a whole week.
In 1987, the pair appeared on the show"Superstars & Their Moms.
“Fawcett reminisced about how she once actually brought her mother on a date with her!
“You’re my best friend.
You always have been,” Fawcett concluded.
Her illness with cancer lasted for three difficult years.
Unlike most people who would probably crave privacy, Fawcett opted to capture her final moments on film.
NBC bought the rights to the footage for $1.5 million, and the film was broadcastin May 2009.
Speaking with People, her doctor, Dr. Lawrence Piro, recalled her spirit and determination.
“She marched through her illness fearlessly, taking control of her decisions,” he said.
