They have a new style of dressing and buy more expensive clothes. Some even start going to the gym because they decided that they want to look better. Your partner starts looking at his/her reflection in the mirror more often or starts visiting cosmetic studios. For whom do they want to look better? Normally if you ask them about this, they will answer that they want to look better for themselves, but that is not what is happening.
This is just a cover-up, they want to look better for someone else. There once was a documentary about how a husband started cheating on his wife by visiting the local brothel. He took her money and instead of spending it to pay the bills he spent it in the brothel. His wife noticed that over the period of a few months he started to keep track of his diet and lost some pounds. It certainly is a great motivation to lose weight because of a lover.
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.