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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/farrahs-swimsuit-donated-to-museum.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Actor Ryan O'Neal waves goodbye to Farrah Fawcett's red swimsuit at the Smithsonian's Museum in Washington (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-farrahs-swimsuit-donated-to-museum.jpg" alt="Actor Ryan O'Neal waves goodbye to Farrah Fawcett's red swimsuit at the Smithsonian's Museum in Washington (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>The red swimsuit that helped make Charlie&#8217;s Angels actress Farrah Fawcett a 1970s icon has become an exhibit at the world&#8217;s largest museum on what would have been her 64th birthday.</p>
<p>Farrah&#8217;s long-time companion, Ryan O&#8217;Neal, presented the swimsuit and other items to the Smithsonian&#8217;s National Museum of American History in Washington.</p>
<p>O&#8217;Neal said Farrah, who died in 2009 after battling cancer for several years, always intended to give the swimsuit to the museum.</p>
<p>&#8220;They asked her years ago for the bathing suit,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So it was always in her plan.&#8221;</p>
<p>Farrah wore the swimming costume for a photo shoot shortly before her debut on Charlie&#8217;s Angels in 1976 and the resulting poster sold millions of copies and became the best-selling poster of all time, according to Smithsonian curator Dwight Bowers.</p>
<p>Mr Bowers said the poster became a symbol of the 1970s era.</p>
<p>Though fans know the bathing suit as red, it is actually a burnt orange colour, possibly due to fading. Before it was donated to the museum, Farrah framed it herself, and it was stored at a Los Angeles warehouse, O&#8217;Neal said.</p>
<p>Also donated to the Smithsonian were Farrah&#8217;s book of scripts for the first season of Charlie&#8217;s Angels, a 1977 Farrah Fawcett doll and a Farrah&#8217;s Glamour Centre styling kit for creating her signature hairdo. The items will be part of the museum&#8217;s popular culture history collection and will go on display this summer.</p>
<p>Farrah&#8217;s friends and family were at the museum for the donation, including her son with O&#8217;Neal, Redmond O&#8217;Neal, and O&#8217;Neal&#8217;s daughter, Tatum O&#8217;Neal.</p>
<p>Ryan O&#8217;Neal, who was filled with emotion during the ceremony, said later he feels Farrah&#8217;s presence every day. &#8220;I&#8217;m still having trouble with losing her,&#8221; he said.</p>
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