There's quite a story behind the picture you see on the left-hand side. There, you see a woman who had beaten cancer not only one, but twice. She and her body had been through a lot, and considering what she'd had to subject herself to both physically and emotionally, we think she looks great. She disagreed, though. She never used to look like that, and it wasn't until she saw the pictures that she realized how she looked to other people. She vowed to change.
Other people had commented on her weight gain, and she found herself giving them excuses - blaming her illness, and also saying she had thyroid issues. They were lies. She signed up for a boot camp to bring her weight down, and she loved it. Because of that, she did another, and then another, and then another. As the weight came down, something amazing happened - she no longer felt in any pain from her surgeries and years of illness. She stopped taking medication, and she felt better than ever. Now, she runs boot camps of her own.
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.