We're more familiar with our favorite memes than we are with some of our favorite celebrities. We use them all the time; some of us even have a 'meme-bank,' in which we keep the perfect meme for any given occasion. Over time, we get to know their faces very well!
That makes us feel a little bit sorry for the people pictured in those memes. In the majority of cases, they never asked to be famous. They've just been caught in a microsecond of their lives, frozen in time forever, and doomed to be posted on the internet for eternity.
Even though the memes don't change or age, the people in them do. Many of them now bear almost no resemblance to how we have always pictured them. Whether they've grown up, re-thought their dress sense or just moved on, here's what the most famous meme stars look like now!
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.