Of all the stories which we've come across on this list so far, this might have the strangest reasoning behind it. Miles Teller wasn't happy with the idea of kissing Shailene Woodley when they made 'The Spectacular Now' together, and he had excellent reasoning. Woodley's breath wasn't just bad; it positively stunk.
While it's never nice to laugh at someone who has a hygiene problem, in this case it was a problem entirely of Woodley's own making. As many young actors do, Woodley was going through an 'experimental diet' phase. The diet she'd chosen was called 're-wilding,' and focused on eating the same kinds of food that early indigenous hunter-gatherers once did. To that end, she was regularly consuming sachets of dirt and soil. Teller hated kissing her, and we don't blame him one bit. People are free to diet however they like in their own time, but don't inflict it on other people!
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.