How Bo Derek Never Waited Around for Hollywood to Define Her

Bo Derek is mostly remembered for a slow-motion beach run and a head full of cornrows that took over the country in 1979. What gets missed is how much of that image was her own doing. Nobody handed her a persona and told her to live up to it. She built it herself and made her peace with it before anyone else got a say. "What I did as soon as I became famous is, I objectified myself," she said years later. "I thought, well, if this is what it is, I'm going to do it." That's not someone...