Hollywood icon Susan Sarandon actually had her first child when she was under 40; but only just. She was 39 when her daughter Eva Amurri was born in 1985. Having started a family, she decided to expand it, and so gave birth to two sons in the years to come; one at the age of 42, and another at 45, all with her former partner, the actor Tim Robbins.
Sarandon is another woman who'd been told that her prospects of having children weren't good. She was diagnosed with endometriosis when she was younger, and so hadn't concerned herself with family planning because she'd long since accepted it would never happened. When she became pregnant she considered it such an unlikely event that it would never happen again, but time proved her wrong in the most wonderful way. And it did it twice!
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.