Hailing from Asbury Park, New Jersey is a major personality from the underground scene that wrestling aficionados would come to know as Bam Bam Bigelow. Scott Charles Bigelow better known by his stage name, Bam Bam, was surprisingly nimble and agile for a man stood 6'3" and weighed 370 pounds. His finishing move the Bam Bam Sault was widely unexpected coming from a man of his stature and included a cartwheel moonsault off the top rope.
Bam Bam's illustrious career expanded through two decades. He began wrestling in the late 1980s and wrestled for all of the major pro-wrestling imprints. WCW, ECW, and WWF. Bam Bam was a one-time ECW Heavyweight Championship belt holder, a two-time WCW Tag Team Championship belt holder but didn't earn any belt honors in the WWF despite headlining multiple events including Wrestlemania XI where he took NFL legend, Lawernce Taylor. Unfortunately, Bigelow passed away at the tender age of 45 due to a drug overdose in 2007. His legacy still lives on.
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.