Remembering Loni Anderson

 

Last night as the word spread that the legendary icon Loni Anderson passed from a lengthy illness, I was swept with a sadness much in the same way I did  when I leaned of Suzanne Somers passing.  As a child of the 80's I look back with a sense of gratitude that I got to live through an era when the "Bombshell" phrase meant something in terms of Movie/TV Actresses.  Loni Anderson stood among the very top of a group that included Suzanne Somers, Raquel Welsh, Farrah Fawcett, Susan Anton, Linda Carter, Heather Thomas, et al.

Theirs was a group of natural beauties, not pumped with fillers and augmentations (save for the copious amounts of hair spray but I digress) In my youth not many my age didn't have a Loni Anderson poster on their wall as the above shown poster must have adorned the walls of tens of millions around the world. I remember then as I did earlier today in finding the right photos to accompany my thoughts, of how perfect everything Loni wore looked on Her, then and into Her golden years. It's next to impossible to find a photo where She isn't stunning in anything.

 Of course Her explosion into Pop Culture was due to Her role in the legendary sit-com WKRP as the amazing Jennifer Marlowe. Back then my sissy seeds while having been sown years earlier, had still not germinated, but even then Loni was less of a fantasy sex symbol to me and more of a Feminine Priestess on some high mountain. Completely unattainable by mere mortals and a symbol of Feminine perfection from head to toe. Her character was strong, witty, powerful, classy, and just so perfectly Female in a time where bombshell actresses and models were not portrayed in the same way at all.  One could say Ms Marlowe was a Femdom icon as well, but not in a leather/fetish sense, but She commanded the natural power to make all males submit to Her wishes and whims.

Very much in similar ways that I shared in my personal tribute after the passing of Susanne Somers, I recall in my youth the admiration and appreciation of loni's amazing beauty and even before I realized my true sissy self, there was a deep desire of wishing I could look as beautiful as Loni always was. She was never a sex symbol I fantasized about but was always one I admired for Her natural Feminine perfection. In all the roles and appearances after WKRP went off the air, Loni was so perfect in everything She did from a symbol as a walking Goddess here on earth. 

 When I began to discover the sissy I would eventually become today, I have to pay homage to my sense of fashion cues and desires to try in my own way to achieve some sense of glamour that icons like Loni displayed. Every dress and outfit adorned Her perfectly even into Her later years. She was just amazing at any age.

Her natural power and radiance never stopped shining from within, and Her class and grace were evident for all to see.  Even in an appearance as a leather clad villain in a C grade Hollywood non classic showed Her amazing style and Female power if She chose to explore that side 

So it is hard to say goodbye to a Woman of my youth like Loni who was a symbol for everything that I saw and see still as amazing, powerful, strong, charismatic, and captivating as a Woman. As a sissy, She represented everything I could never be, but still inspired me to find my own Feminine path. We simply do not see many examples of the Loni Anderson's in today's world, so that's why Her loss is felt deeply for those of us who remember a time when Women like Her ruled the world in Their own way, and blazed a trail for Women to follow.

May She rest in peace.

Sincerely Sissy

Devina