For those people who have deeply-held religious or moral convictions, getting into the acting profession can be a troubling experience. Even though you might be playing a character, it's ultimately still you who has to perform any physical activity required of you, and sometimes that can lead to compromising your morals. For Fawad Khan, he found he couldn't go through with it when he was asked to kiss his co-star Alia Bhatt in 'Kapoor & Sons.'
Khan considered his own chastity more important to him than the part - or his job - and so he point blank refused to do it. The director tried as hard as possible to film around the problem by shooting from an angle which obscured the kiss. Khan and Bhatt therefore performed a simulated kiss, in which no physical contact was made. Despite that, Bhatt says that Khan was still nervous every time she leaned forward in case she tried to plant one on him.
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.