Anyone who has worked up the courage to enter the online dating scene will know just how important height is when you're looking for your next connection. For some, it seems to be the only thing that really matters. Perhaps the 'small' things like personality can be worked out later.
However, despite the popularity of dating apps, not everybody is searching for love online. If you're a celebrity, it would be almost impossible. There's no way anybody would believe they'd just stumbled upon Reese Witherspoon's dating profile. Even if a celebrity managed to line up a date successfully, can you imagine the paparazzi?
For this reason, you usually only see celebrities date other celebrities, or at least other people within their industry. And when you're not filtering matches from behind a screen, you can't really negotiate when it comes to height. Check out these celebrity couples who threw caution to the wind when it came to their obvious height differences!
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.