OK, you've caught us, we're cheating by including Kristen. She wasn't a star of the 90s. But until we admitted to that you thought she was, right? Kristen didn't actually appear on TV until 2001, when she worked her way into all of our hearts as Lana Lang in Smallville. She stayed on in the role for nine years, seeing it almost all the way through its TV run, and breaking her way into film in the meantime.
She hasn't found breaking into other areas as easy as her peers, although she's played the iconic Street Fighter character "Chun-Li" in a movie, and currently holds down a major role in "Burden of Truth", which she took coming right off the back of her success in "Beauty and the Beast". Still in her 30s, and looking as fresh as she ever did, her name was only slightly tarnished by association with Allison Mack, and her part in the NXIVM scandal.
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.