Long before she wore the Ewing gems, drove  a silver Porsche across the expanse of the Texas South Fork Ranch and dove Bobby Ewing mad with her cleavage, Victoria Principal was showing the rest of man kind her assets as she entered, and won, the Miss Miami beauty pageant in 1969.

But it was the 1970’s that brought Victoria the fame she sought as she posed naked for Hugh Hefner’s Playboy magazine in September 1973.

That assignment in turn lead to a Victoria’s film debut as Paul Newman’s Mexican mistress in The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean and played a sexy biker chick in the 1974 disaster epic Earthquake with Charlton Heston and Richard Roundtree.

Life in front of the camera brought Victoria a string of male companions in the form of Billionaire Financier, Bernard Cornfeld, whom as the age of 19 quickly set up home. Her other  dated numerous conquests included,  Andy Gibb, Steven Spielberg and Frank Sinatra.

Victoria’s beauty has always been her greatest attraction with her pink blush skin, big brown eyes and beaming smile. But evidently Principal was never totally satisfied with her looks, especially as they mature, and so she took herself off and married her very own cosmetic surgeon, Dr Harry Glassman 1985. However, following arrest for domestic violence in January 2003, the couple separated in 2006 citing irreconcilable differences and finally divorced.

Now a days, when Victoria isn’t pursing her maid with a hand gun she’s rigorously training to be one of the flight crew on Richard Branson’s commercial space flight venture which is scheduled to make her one of the first female civilian astronauts in June 2010.