50's Sex Icon Dies at Age 85....
The world lost a real legend and enigma this week, when Bettie Page passed away. She had been suffering from pneumonia when she had a heart attack and was taken off life support. She was 85 years old.
She probably looks pretty familiar to most of you, but for those of you who don't know her, Bettie Page WAS Sex in the 1950's. She was a major pinup girl, with her trademark black bangs - and little else. usually dressed in lingerie, but often pictured in the nude, Page was infamous in the 50's. By the end of the decade, she was invetsigated by the US government and harrassed by the religious right, before the Tennessee native became a born-again Christian.
Though her life slowed down, she always tried to keep her image intact by not making public appearances. Her feeling was that to see her as an older lady would hurt the legend she made earlier and she may have been right..
You can agree with her work or disagree, but you have to give credit to a woman who broke all the rules at a time when no one did... She was one spunky lady - and pretty hot too....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzNW7IBXL_A
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