Anderson is a fitness entrepreneur and author. She is most famous for the Tracy Anderson Method and for coaching various celebrity clients. Just for the record, she is not related to Pamela Anderson. The only thing in common is their hot Scandinavian genes. Her first career prospects were in dancing. She started dancing from an early age and hoped to become a professional dancer, but things did not turn out as planned.
However, things did not go as planned, she moved to New York City and after spending a year there she gained 40lb. In order to lose weight, she switched her attention to fitness and decided that she wanted to have a fitness career. Now, Anderson is very successful, she has gym locations in Los Angeles, New York City, The Hamptons, and London and has a DVD collection about how to train at home.
To insure one’s house, one’s car or to underwrite a life insurance policy, that is common practice. But who would pay an insurance premium for his/her thumb, legs or smile? Stars, of course.
At the top of the ranking are the legs of Mariah Carey, worth 810 million USD: The diva became, in 2006, the Gillette brand muse for the advertising campaign «Legs of a Goddess». She then took out an insurance policy with London Lloyds to protect her legs, a decision that is far from being insignificant. Among its customers, the London insurer then included several icons of music, such as Bob Dylan or Rod Stewart.
David Beckham’s body insured for 195 million USD: European champion with Manchester United in 1999, David Beckham was in 2006 the most renowned footballer of the planet. In relation to his sporting activities, he took out an insurance cover for his legs. The huge amount paid for his insurance would reportedly exceed the 103 million USD disbursed by Real Madrid for the cover of Christiano Ronaldo in 2009. The fashion model would later extend his insurance cover to his entire body.
15 million USD in insurance for Kim Kardashian’s curves: The curves of Kim Kardashian are her number one beauty asset. The reality TV star, who is crazy about plastic surgery, has underwritten an insurance policy worth 15 million USD to protect her famous butt.
The culinary critic Egon Ronay assured his taste buds: The famous Hungarian culinary critic has insured his taste buds since 1957, for the amount of 400 000 USD. An original insurance policy which allows him to cover his sense of taste without which he will no longer be able to practice his job.