Nancy will always have a place in our hearts from her starring role as Jo in "The Facts of Life", a show that ran with great success for most of the 1980s, and she was already well known to most audiences by the time the 1990s rolled around. During the decade she received her only four movie credits to date, making that time of her life, arguably, her creative peak.
Her career actually started all the way back in 1977 with an appearance on "Starsky and Hutch", and she worked constantly in television for almost the next thirty years. She was nearly even more famous - the role of Monica in "Friends" came down to a straight choice between Nancy and Courtney Cox, with Nancy just losing out. She has no hard feelings about that, however, agreeing that Cox was the perfect choice for the part. She's slowed down with her acting work in recent years, after marrying and starting a family in 2003.
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.