Video: Betty Brosmer is the pin-up queen: the sexiest fashion model of the 1950s
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Drawn beauties in style pin-up filled the covers of fashion magazines in the 40s of the last century, but do not forget that the fashionable image had real prototypes. The owner of the most luxurious figure with curvaceous forms and a record thin waist was Betty Brosmer, the famous fashion model, whose pictures were sold out by top publications like hot cakes. Betty's career started at the age of 13, she won 50 prestigious titles in beauty contests and "lost" her podium only years later to Marilyn Monroe.
"LIFE", "Time", "Fortune", "Look" - these and many other magazines vied with each other to publish pictures of Betty Brosmer, models whose parameters are still perceived as fantastic: 96-46-92! There is an opinion that in childhood she wore a special corset, which made it possible to achieve such an amazing result, although this is not known for certain.
The first magazine to contract with Betty was Sears & Roebuck. This was the beginning of a real "boom" in the image of a blonde model: advertisers were ready to pay any money to cooperate with her. When the girl turned 16, she immediately gathered a rich "harvest" of titles at prestigious contests: "Miss Television", "Miss Jones Beach", "Miss Figure" and "Miss Blue Eyes". Amazingly, Betty became the first model to receive a royalty for every photo she posted.
At the age of 26, the beauty married the famous bodybuilder and bodybuilder Joe Weider, left the modeling business and began to promote a healthy lifestyle. In a sports bikini, she poses for the magazines "Muscle Builder Power" and "Mr. America", makes every effort to popularize women's bodybuilding and fitness. Rumor has it that it was Betty who was involved in the screen fame of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Betty still has an active lifestyle, today she publishes the women's magazine "Shape", runs the Internet columns "Body by Betty" and "Health by Betty", is a member of the Olympic Committee for Physical Excellence.
Pin-up appeared in the middle of the last century and still has not lost its popularity. About how it would look American pin-up with Russian flavor, if he was born after the war, not in the USA, but in the Soviet Union, photographer Irina Davis reflected …
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