Raquel Welch anti-aging beauty & weight loss tips: actress continues to dazzle at 75; see her secrets here

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Golden Globe Award-winning actress Raquel Welch, who has starred in numerous films and television series that spanned over 50 years is looking sexy and healthy at 75, making audiences wonder what's the secret behind her aging ever so gracefully.

The answer, according to Celebrity Health Fitness, is a low-carb, gluten-free diet and exercise in the form of yoga.

"I'm holding together just fine, but I'm not doing it with no effort," Welch said, as per The Examiner. "I'm doing my yoga every day — an hour-and-a-half of that."

"I have a very exciting life and to enjoy it I have to keep in shape and look as good as I can. It's a trade-off," the now 75-year-old actress said. "The body beautiful is not a top priority anymore. Health and well-being are more important."

As for beauty tips, The Sun reports that the former Bond Girl (she appeared in 1965's Thunderball), said that she uses Bag Balm for her lips and face. Bag Balm is commonly used by farmers on their cattle to "soothe bruised, sore or injured teats".

"Bag Balm is kind of a silly thing, it’s used when they milk cows on their udders," Welch admitted. "It is something you can put on overnight and when you wake up you don’t have a dry, cracking mouth. Believe me there are a lot of mummies walking around with Bag Balm."

Welch also admitted that she is a fitness fanatic whose diet is free of sugar, salt, wheat, and caffeine. The actress, who is also now the face of wig company HAIRuWEAR, was known as the iconic deer-skin bikini clad Loana in the 1966 film One Million Years B.C., landing her title as sex symbol soon thereafter.

But throughout Welch's career, she never opted to take off her clothes and pose nude. In a recent interview with Piers Morgan on his Life Stories show, the actress said, "I am my father's daughter and that's just not the way you behave."

"You don't do that if you are a certain kind of a woman and that's the kind of woman I was raised to be," were the words Welch said, Telegraph reports.

Following her role in One Million Years B.C., she became a pin-up in the '60s and '70s but refused to pose nude for Hugh Hefner. She made it to the cover of Playboy in 1979 wearing a red swimsuit, but not before Hefner called her "boring" for not exposing her breasts and derriere.

Welch, who now considers herself as a "faded sex symbol" also went on to be named by Empire magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars in Film History" and Men's Health's "Hottest Women of All Time" list.