Audiences were enthralled by actress Bo Derek’s stunning beauty from the moment they lay eyes on her. This beautiful woman, whose role in the film 10 that her husband directed arguably made her most famous, still has a charming appearance.
Early on, Bo realized that acting was her career. When she was just 16 years old, her mother, who worked for the Swedish-American actress Ann-Margeret, assisted her in getting her first movie job. Bo first got to know John Derek when they were both working on the movie Once Once a Love. John is both an actor and a director.
Bo was 17 years old at the time, and Linda Evans, an actress, was John’s wife. Bo was 30 years older than Linda. John chose to divorce his wife in order to be with Bo.
Bo, who is now 64, discusses her teenage affair and how she still regrets shattering Evans and John’s marriage.
“I was at least largely to responsible for Linda Evans’s great suffering. She had been really gracious and friendly. Strangely enough, I only recently saw her. We were visiting a jewelry trunk show for a good cause.
She kept being fantastic and amazing. She constantly makes me feel awful while we’re together. Years later, it’s just become ingrained,” Bo said in a 2016 interview with Interview Magazine.
Bo and John dated for two years before getting married in Las Vegas in 1976; they spent the majority of that time traveling to Mexico and Europe so that John could avoid being arrested for dating a minor.
The thing that makes Bo remarkable is her blonde cornrow braids, which were a distinguishing feature of her earlier appearances and have managed to linger in people’s thoughts. She added that she didn’t realize how much they would mean to her and that getting that hairstyle was her husband’s idea.
That was the latter half of the 1970s, I was blonde, and everything was fluffy. What aspects of your appearance will you change? John thought that would be a great look for me because he is a skilled photographer.
Therefore, we acted. He then proposed that they show Blake these pictures to see if it would pique his interest. That would be really great for the part, so you don’t seem ordinary, she told Interview Magazine.
Over the years, Bo played a variety of parts, including Tarzan, The Ape Man (1981), Bolero (1984), Ghosts Can’t Do It (1990), and the television series 7th Heaven, Lucky, and Queen of Swords.
John Derek went away in 1998 at the age of 71. Bo didn’t want to be married again, but she started dating actor John Corbett, 60. “We love each other’s company and make each other laugh.
Bo once said, “We still hold hands after 15 years, and once or twice a week we still have picnics with friends. They decided to tie the knot in 2020.
Bo’s life revolves heavily around horses, which have grown to be her obsession. She also wrote an autobiography with the working title Riding Lessons: Everything I Need to Know About Life I Learned from Horses.
She cares for animals, so she decided to become an animal activist who fights for their rights. She spends a lot of her time on missions that call for a stop to the horse slaughter.
Bo is still among the most beautiful actresses today, and she lives a contented life in California.
The image below shows a scene from episode 10. Are you able to remember it?