Red-rum. Red-rum. Much earlier on in this list, we showed you what the iconic twins from the Stephen King horror movie 'The Shining' are up to these days. They weren't the only child stars in the film though - in fact, they weren't even the main ones. That honor went to Danny Lloyd, who played Jack Nicholson's son (also called Danny). The assignment was no easy job for a child, but Lloyd pulled it off admirably.
That made him something of a loss to the acting profession when he decided not to continue. Lloyd only has one more credit to his name as an actor - a mostly-unknown television movie in 1992 called 'Will.' He then retired from acting and grew up as a perfectly normal child, who became a perfectly normal man. He still gets asked about his horror movie past and deals with the questions with good grace, but Lloyd is a professor of biology at home in Kentucky. He's also a married man with four children of his own.
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.