If you've ever seen a game of baseball, you've probably got an opinion about the man they call 'A-Rod'. To his admirers, he's the greatest baseball player since Babe Ruth and has the 25 grand slam record to prove it. To his haters, he's a drugs cheat with a bad attitude who was more concerned with living the high life off the field than he was performing on it.
Rodriguez played baseball very well and made a lot of money out of it, no doubt. He's a 14 time All Star and a world series winner, with 696 home runs to his name. Sponsors loved him, and he signed some of the biggest marketing deals the sport ever saw, which made him a rich man. But his teams never won as much as they should have done with him on the side, and his habit of freezing in clutch situations earned the nickname 'Mr. Cooler'.
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.