Along with Little Women and My Girl, this is yet another tear jerker for the list. A Walk to Remember didn't really hit the big screen with great expectations. It was marketed as a girly film and it starred Mandy Moore, who was better known as a pop star at the time (not a serious actress). But boy, were we surprised. As it turns out, this girl can act, and most of us left the cinema with red eyes and used Kleenex in our hands.
Released in 2002, A Walk to Remember was based on the Nicholas Sparks novel of the same name. Moore plays Jamie, a teenage cancer patient, who develops an unlikely friendship with the school's bad boy, Landon (played by Shane West). This is a Nicholas Sparks storyline we're talking about here, so, of course, everything ends in tragedy and everybody in the audience gets very sad.
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.