When your mom is Diana Ross, you kind of have big shoes to fill when it comes to success. Luckily for Tracee Ellis Ross, she hasn't really struggled in that department. She starred in the comedy series, Girlfriends from 2000 to 2008 and now plays the starring role in the wildly successful series, Black-ish. She has also made some film appearances, including Hanging Up and Daddy's Little Girls.
Tracee Ellis Ross is Diana Ross's daughter with music executive, Robert Ellis Silberstein. In fact, he used to manage Diana Ross professionally. The pair married in 1971 and divorced in 1977 and have one other child together, daughter Chudney Ross. After her divorce, Diana Ross went on to have two more children with her second husband. She had two sons, Ross and Evan. She is also step-mother to his three children from a previous relationship.
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.