RIP Bettie Page

[snogged]

Pinup Model Bettie Page passed away at the age of 85 today.

She suffered a heart attack after battling pneumonia for three weeks and didn't regain consciousness.

She was a truly amazing beauty and free spirit and she will be deeply missed.

"I don't know what they mean by an icon. I never thought of myself as being that. It seems strange to me. I was just modeling, thinking of as many different poses as possible. I made more money modeling than being a secretary. I had a lot of free time. You could go back to work after an absence of a few months. I couldn't do that as a secretary." -Bettie Page

Comments

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

It's sad that she's passed...


Gabrielle

[snogged.livejournal.com]

it is

But in truth, we all have die sometime.

[nonothrthnme.livejournal.com]

Oh dear.

yeah.

just that. oh dear

[snogged.livejournal.com]

yeah

[kallie-kat.livejournal.com]

That's funny (in a coincidental type of way). I was out with my friends tonight at a burlesque show (one of my friends was performing) and they showed a video of Bettie Page doing burlesque as sort of a memorial. She certainly was beautiful.

[snogged.livejournal.com]

that's cool that they did that