It's completely wrong, but we always seem to treat death as a more tragic incident when it occurs to someone who's particularly young and beautiful. Perhaps it's telling of how we feel about potential. When someone dies in their 40s or 50s, it's still sad, but they've at least experienced a lot of life. When someone's in their 20s or 30s, they've barely had a chance to settle at all. In any event, the profile of Anna Loginova in death was higher than it had ever been in life, and she was a 29-year-old model.
She was, however, more than just a model. Loginova had noted how much hassle and harassment models in her native Russia had to put up with, and so trained as a bodyguard, eventually starting an agency of female bodyguards to protect Russia's rich and famous. She was killed on duty trying to prevent a carjacking in January 2008. This photo was taken only weeks earlier, at her final-ever photoshoot.
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.