We're kicking off this list with a player that just so happens to still be on their respective team's active roster. Larry Fitzgerald has spent his entire sixteen-year career with the Cardinals and excelled despite not having a stable quarterback throughout the majority of his career. His wide receiver skills are amongst the greatest the NFL has ever witnessed. His route running ability is elite despite not having the speed that he once had as an NFL newcomer.
Following his reign at the University of Pittsburgh, Larry Fitzgerald was selected 3rd overall in the 2004 NFL Draft by the Arizona Cardinals, where he's played his entire career. Throughout his lengthy career, the now 36-year-old wideout has been selected to the Pro Bowl a total of eleven times thus far and currently holds second place rights for both all-time receptions and receiving yards behind only, Jerry Rice. When it is all said and done for Fitzgerald, he'll find his way to the Hall of Fame once eligible.
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.