Poor Calvin Harris. It looks like his mom cut his hair by putting a bowl on his head and then cutting around the edges of it. He doesn't seem to mind too much though - that's quite a sweet and satisfied smile he's wearing. Harris was a big lover of dance music even when he was at school, and worked part-time at a fish packing factory until he'd saved up enough money to buy himself his first set of decks. It might have been smelly, but it was all worth it in the end.
Harris is now one of the biggest name DJs in the world, having branched out from his native UK to perform internationally. Music stars like Rihanna queue up to collaborate with him. Now he's sorted his hair out, he's also one of the world's best-looking men, and can count Taylor Swift and Ellie Goulding among his ex-girlfriends. According to Forbes magazine, he's been the best-paid DJ in the world every year since 2013.
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.