Maryse Ouellet is another WWE personality that has used wrestling as a platform to enter other business ventures. While she might have found other lanes to create revenue streams, Ouellet is a wrestler at heart. She's an excellent performer and her signature moves including the Spinning Backbreaker, French TKO, French Pain, and French Kiss DDT would cause even the most trained athlete a tremendous amount of pain.
Hailing from Montreal, Canada, Maryse was a model prior to entering the WWE Diva Search in 2006. After training in two different WWE developmental territories, Maryse was assigned to the WWE Smackdown program in 2008 where she would win her first WWE Divas Championship within the same year. Her initial seven-month stint with the title belt made her the third-longest reigning Divas Champion in WWE history. In February 2010, Maryse won the title for a second time making her the first to ever hold the championship multiple times and the only woman to win the belt via a tournament. Since then, Maryse has popped back in and out of wrestling managing her husband, The Miz, raising their children, working as a realtor, and starring in her own reality show. Maryse worked the wrestling system right and does as she pleases.
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.