Bettie Page..RIP…
Bettie Page, the pin-up queen, died yesterday at the age of 85. Page suffered a heart attack last week and had been on life support since at Kindred Hospital in Los Angeles. The news of her death saddened many close to the icon, who with her randy pictures assisted in flipping the script of the way women embraced their sexuality back in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Her sharp brunette hair, with the blunt bangs, her curvy figure and mixture of innocence and dominance made her photographs live on for years. Her image and pop culture status rivals that of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean and each year a new generation has found their naughty girl next door to adore. Page left the modeling and pop culture world nearly 30 years ago, and has requested that any time she had done interviews since that her pictures were not taken.
She had said in previous interviews, “I have no idea why I’m the only model who has had so much fame so long after quitting work. I want to be remembered, as I was when I was young and in my golden times. . . . I want to be remembered as the woman who changed people’s perspectives concerning nudity in its natural form.“ The woman, whose iconic bondage and pin-up pictures are still seen to this day on everything from lunch boxes to lighters to posters in college dorm rooms, gave woman a sense of ownership over their own sexual expression and allowance to be strong, yet attractive. She will surely be missed, but her beauty has endured and will continue to do so for ages.
