Caitlin Cahow is a major achiever in the field of women's ice hockey. She's represented the USA at the Winter Olympics in both 2006 and 2010, as well as four different World Championships, winning three of them. Although she's still only 33, her professional career came to an end very early, having stopped playing at a professional level in 2011. The peak of her career was probably 2008, when she won the USA Hockey Women's Player of the Year award.
Cahow has been openly gay for her whole career and is another gay-and-proud athlete who made a statement at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia. She was specifically chosen by serving President Barack Obama to be part of the US delegation to those games. Since retiring from the sport, she's qualified as an attorney and now works for the international law company Jones Day in Chicago, where she lives.
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.