The famous beauty from the 70s, with the legs worth insurance, Catherine Bach is unrecognizable today. The actress was one of the first woman who wore short shorts on TV.
Catherine Bach was a great character. She had the courage and knowledge to build her career and name in the industry. She handmade most of her costumes, as the producers wanted her to wear something else, she would insist on her own choices.
She is the reason why cut-off denim shorts are called “Daisy Dukes.”
She was born in 1954, in Ohio. After her parents divorced, she stayed with her father, at their South Dakota ranch.
As she found her way in Hollywood, she had her audition for “The Dukes of Hazzard.”
“My husband was a contractor… and he liked to hire a lot of out-of-work writers, struggling actors and producers. So he hired this fellow to paint the house and he was writing this show about an old moonshiner called ’The Dukes of Hazzard’” Catherine shared.
As the show became a hit, she had her breakthrough. “The character is a conglomeration of many people I know. She is half the wildest girl I ever knew in high school. She is part of a couple of girls I was real close to in Georgia. Se’s a lot of Dolly Parton and she’s a lot of me when I was a waitress. She is independent. She is physical. And she can do anything the guys can do,” Bach said.
She was the true beauty, as she had no surgeries on her body. She was the original beauty. Her legs were insured for a million dollars.
After the show, she had troubles in her career, where she couldn’t land on big roles. After “African Skies,” she regained her fame and then she starred in “The Young and the Restless.”
Her husband, Peter Lopez, passed away in 2010, and things started to go south. “He was the love of my life,” Bach shared.
“A lot of people in the music business have stress, but Peter was always calm and collected,” she said of her husband’s suicide.
“The further I get away from it, the more I believe he did this to protect us. Something must have happened to him that he couldn’t get past.”
They welcomed two daughters, Laura Esmerelda and Sophia Isabella.
”I realize that these girls are my legacy, they are Peter’s legacy. They are a testament to our love and what we thought of family, and there’s no way that I could ever slack off on that and just think about myself,” Catherine Bach said.
“I prayed a lot. I went to church a lot. I’m Catholic. I stayed very close to my priest who I really trust… It’s what kept me alive.”
After 40 years since “The Dukes of Hazzard,” was ended, Catherine is not the same woman she once was, but she is still a beauty. Bach aged gracefully. ”Keeping them zipped [was the hardest thing about wearing the shorts],” Bach laughed.
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