Usually, there's a specific trigger which makes us decide that it's time to start taking better care of our body and our appearance. For some of us, it's when our favorite clothes no longer fit properly. For others, it's seeing a terrible picture of ourselves and realizing we look far worse than we imagined. For this girl, it was something much more specific. She'd always been very proud of her defined chin and jawline, and it was disappearing as her face got fatter.
Her sole motivation for cutting back on the wrong types of food and starting an exercise regime was to get her chin back, and regain her pride in her appearance in the process. It only took her fifteen months to rid herself of all the extra pounds, and now she looks stunning once more. Look at those cheekbones - they were hidden by the fat before, and now they're her best feature.
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.