Dec 12 2008Bettie Page dies at 85 (1923 - 2008)

Pinup legend Bettie Page died yesterday in LA. She was placed on life support last week after suffering a heart attack and never woke up. The iconic secretary-turned-model was 85. The AP reports:

Page, who was also known as Betty, attracted national attention with magazine photographs of her sensuous figure in bikinis and see-through lingerie that were quickly tacked up on walls in military barracks, garages and elsewhere, where they remained for years.
Her photos included a centerfold in the January 1955 issue of then-fledgling Playboy magazine, as well as controversial sadomasochistic poses.
"I think that she was a remarkable lady, an iconic figure in pop culture who influenced sexuality, taste in fashion, someone who had a tremendous impact on our society," Playboy founder Hugh Hefner told The Associated Press on Thursday. "She was a very dear person."

If I could travel back in time and start this site in the 1950s, Bettie Page would've been in the So Freaking Hot section every single day. But at least I know she's sitting on God's desk now and "Oops!" She dropped her pen...

Rest in Peace, Bettie.

Photos: WENN

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What a babe.

A legend for sure.

After suffering...what?

Some of her S&M stuff was pretty good....

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Without a doubt the most popular pin-up girl of all time, and definitely one of the top 10 most influential women of the late 20th century. She will be missed

The third pic isn't Bettie, it's Gretchen Mol playing Bettie in 'The Notorious Bettie Page'

now THAT is what a woman's body should look like....

She was a proper good looking girl. None of the skinny or plastic freaks you get these days.

She always smiled in her pics. THATS what makes it so sexy. She looks happy. Who wants a miserable pouting woman?

RIP. and thanks for the joy you brought

OMG - look at her boobs. They look strange. Why don't they look like orange halves bolted onto her chest. What's wrong with them?

I will never understand why anyone would call this woman sexy. Her proportions are all terribly off. And smiling all the time is VERY crude. She was a vulgar pervert actually.
No loss.

she had a really nice body for that period of time. Most women were pretty over weight back then. She had sexy legs. But back in those days, women weren't very much into feminine hygene. I can't help but think how those untrimmed hairy cooters must've stunk back in the day. The WWII generation really were the bravest hero's of our time, imagine going down on an untrimmed mess that hadn't been bathed or douched? wow....

WTF seriously?

THE THIRD PICTURE IS GRETCHEN MOL PLAYING BETTIE PAGE - TAKE IT DOWN PLEASE, THAT'S DISRESPECTFUL TO THE REAL BETTIE, R.I.P Thanks!!!!

Heya, Mimi? You might be on the wrong sight if you have problems with vulgarity, perverseness, crudeness, and misproportioned women - and I'm just talking about the "women" who are typically found on this site.

Oh, and Ms. Page's proportions were 36-24-35 in the height of her career. Rather perfect proportions, really. Just different and oddly/old-fashion styled lingerie.

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Have a nice weekend!

#9... they are real tits. Also the bra of the time.
#10... what the fuck is wrong with being a vuglar pervert?


She was... and will always be HOT!


She was... and will always be HOT!

No surgery, no airbrush, no photoshop, no diet drugs, supplements
no organic low fat, gluten free no cal diet foods.
A real woman.

What a beautiful iconic woman. Her passing is so sad, but at least she will be remembered forever. I wish that women with bodies like hers could be revered in that way again...none of this anorexic tanning bed look that everyone's going for. And I love that she smiles in her photos. What a woman. She will be missed.

She proved that you dont have to be a stick figure to be sexy, however, that is not an excuse to let yourself go either...

#11 - LOL.. Hadnt thought about that.. it would've been kinda skanky...

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Pinky Nip will be crushed


She is my favorite. Just saw her on milllionaire personals site ___S E E K A M I L L I O N A I R E . C O M___@@@ last week. I am wondering what kind of relationship she is looking for on that site.Is she single again now?


She is my favorite. Just saw her on milllionaire personals site ___S E E K A M I L L I O N A I R E . C O M___@@@ last week. I am wondering what kind of relationship she is looking for on that site.Is she single again now?

Oh, Mimi - I forgot to mention: Ms. Page, while divorced three times, didn't smoke, didn't drink (she was a fan of root beer), played piano and guitar, got her teaching degree, and was at one point a secretary. WHAT A SKANK!

aww. RIP.

I'm fairly certain that #9 and #10 are being sarcastic...

@ 10
I am now convinced that Mimi is a total butch-dike.
This dumb ass would not know sexy if it wrapped itself around her hairy ass bush.

Do us all a favor and go find a Shitney story to pump your ego up on.

#23/24....Maybe it should be SEEKADEADMILLIONAIRE . COM

Dumbass.

Fucking bots.

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Other than the fact she was probably the only chick willing to be photographed naked in the 50's what was so great about her? If I was around in the 50's I never would have had even a slight urge to fuck her in the ass. I would have been too busy building a time machine to get back to the future where chicks like her with thick cottage cheese asses are a dime a dozen and where I could enjoy more pleasing sexual interludes with girls Anne Hathaway who have sweet spanky asses and like to go out to get shitfaced then get buttfucked in dark alleys.

Hey, Holly, you're my favorite.....I saw you on STUPID CUNTS WHO SPAM.COM. Your profile mentioned you like to make an annoying pain in the ass out of yourself on celebrity gossip websites

mike will still drink her douche water.

she made it into a couple of mainstream movies, right?

Mimi~ It will be no loss when your 70 cats eat you alive.

Wait a minute, let me get this straight..

It's no loss that she kicked the bucket, because she smiled??

RIP Ms. Page.

hairy forearms and no upper lip

I'm sure if she was a 20 year old today all of you prick guys would say she was fat and ugly

RIP

and mimi, you're an idiot

Pin Up Icon, she will be missed.

She was totally hot....Fact.

Mimi, a litlle bit jealous are we pet..?

Parker, seriously, dude, are you Craig from Malcolm in the Middle?

Dude, that third picture is Gretchen Mol.

Shame on some of you. You weren't around back then, you have no idea what you're talking about, stop spouting crap just to get a reaction. It's boring and stupid and not funny in the slightest. She was a brave and beautiful iconic figure, and she will be remembered fondly...

RIP

But, her foot is dirty in the last pic.

Dirty feet is a fetish.

Word.

RIP Bettie. You were truly a class act.

If the 3rd picture is someone else then she was a butterface! no disrespect!
RIP

Now this is how a woman is supposed to look. Not like these twigs and tranny-looking 'celebrities' now...

@37
I agree, same with Marilyn.

Is the broken chair in picture #3 a fetish of some kind?

sad sad. she was awsome a true girl who didnt care what people thought. RIP

I see Parker is more into anorexic twats than someone who actually looks like a woman.

i really don't see how posing in lingerie with a whip makes you a feminist icon

why so much fuss over this woman?

its still sad that she's dead, though

She was still alive?

She was... and will always be HOT!
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i don't mean to disrespect the dead, but i thank God i don't live in a time where this was considered "sexy"... i mean are you guys serious?

1.) A dear, sincere, kind, private person, the only thing negative about her I can think of is that she believed in the invisible angry person in the sky who loves you but needs lots and lots of money and his is comin' to save you and take you to the afterlife on Rock Candy Mountain for about thirty years. Then she woke up, left Florida and got paid money owed her after all these years and then some. Refused to have her picture taken since the nineteen seventies.
2.) Parker is a cheese eating fag and I mean that in the bad spiteful angry way - nanner, nanner, nanner. I see cauliflower growing outta your butthole, Parker.
3.) Betty Page is cooler than Elvis.

An American icon who gets well deserved remembrance. God bless her.
Gretchen Mol who I always liked is absolutely gorgeous and did a great job in the movie take of Bettie Page.

Yes, that is Gretchen in a shot from the movie but leave it up. It's also in remembrance and honor to an American icon.

Nothing wrong with that.


She was a class act, a single working girl who looked like she enjoyed life in an era when women were supposed to be (un) happily married, serving hubby and a whole bunch of kids. RIP Bettie!

I'd hit it.....Today. (it's a fetish)

YOU MEN TODAY MAKE ME SICK
ANYONE THAT FINDS THIS WHORING PIG SEXY MUST HAVE A SERIOUS PROBLEM SHE WAS NOT ATTRACTIVE REALLY AND HAD A TERRIBLE BODY IN MY HONEST OPINION

A REAL woman, not some anorexic skinny white bitch.

#26: Nice try mimi. Keep those ankles covered, btw.

She was amazing.

Light years beyond the trash of today.

Guys, wake up and smell the Jesus. If you google info about her life, you'll find out that she became a whacked-out Jesus-freak and spent the majority of her life begging the Lord to forgive her for her naughty photos.

So try to remember her as she really was- a repressed fanatic with guilt and shame rather then a larger-than-life twenty-something pin-up girl. The pin-ups only lasted a few years. The Jesus misery was a lifetime.

I love the dirty soles in that last shot. Kinda makes you want to walk right up to the bedside and start sniffin. Come to think of it, I have a dirty soul myself.

#64 you are so right she did become a devout christian and she would not allow people to photograph her later on in her life. She truly regretted the pin up lifestyle that she use to live! RIP

She had what you can call a "perfect body". Anyone who disagrees is either a blind ... or a fag,

One of my ALL time favorites!! The hottest of the HOT, then. Still very HOT and can hold her own against the modern babes. ALL NATURAL, baby!!

Her shape, SMILE, the entire package was pretty awesome really! There will never be another Betty. RIP sweetie, I will always have the hots for you.

#66 -- She didn't want to be photographed because she wanted to be remembered as she was in her prime. Not because she was repentant. But later in life she did go out and get her picture taken with Pamela Anderson at some vintage porn, sorry, "erotica" show -- is that repentant?

She was the Madonna of her time. Actually more destructive because she made all of this look so innocent and fun. I can imagine being a girl and wanting to be Bettie Page. Only gay men want to be Madonna.

I like the skinny bitches, but she's not bad. I like her smile

REST IN PEACE BETTY!

U ROCKED!

There's a rare photo of Bettie posted at the Huffington Post - it was taken when she was 80, and she still looked as beautiful as she ever did. Same eyes, smile, and banged-hair!


Saying that Betty Page was some overweight women with cottage cheese thighs and ass.... what?!?!

She's what a real woman should look like. Not some skin and bones women... like this chick in the current advertisement The Superficial has currently (Chickdowntown.com).

*raise a glass* "To the old days where beautiful was healthy!" (That doesn't mean fat - that means not a meal of crackers and water)

Tsk tsk Betty. It's not polite for a lady to hold her legs up like a dog being neutered. And the risque photos! Please?
Wearing your grandmother's bathing suit is hardly fashion and I could really assist in those bangs.\
All in all a brief respite of joy in an otherwise miserable life.
Tell that to the lord Betty. He will forgive you although he may not understand.
xoxoxo
Randal

This woman had no impact on society whatsoever. If people weren't copying her looks, they would've been copying someone else's looks. Scientists, politicians, generals, entrepreneurs who invent new business models—these people have impacts on society. Thinking about her is just a hobby, which is fine! Don't get me wrong! Just don't get the strength of her impact wrong, either!

And now i'm sad.

damn.

Em (#14 & 24) You just rock.

Mimi (#10) You're a fucking puke. :)

Could that 'tarded Betty Page look being kept alive in tattoo parlors & vintage stores of LA & MSP die too? Please? It really isn't cheeky.

Wow the power of nostalgia. If she was doing this now you guys would all be saying she is a fat attention whore and no better than Paris and Kim. Oh well I think she was really pretty and had a great figure. RIP


A TRUE AMERICAN ICON !! REST IN PEACE.

RIP Bettie

My GF looks like her but with bigger tits. Yes, I am a lucky mofo. :)

Dang ... but, I was expecting it.

I'll be tossing it one more time in her honor. Then, it's back to live pinups.

i dont think her face was all that outstanding, but she had a great body + even better clothes!
she was the original weather you love her or hate her, but to be honest i thought she died years ago...

Heaven is a prettier place with Bettie's beautiful smile shining on...
RIP Ms. Page, you will never be forgotten.

on the other hand: She wasn't really "HOT" anymore.

Seriously, take down that third picture already. As others have pointed out, that's Gretchen Mol's scrawny ass pretending to be the luscious and angelic Bettie Page.

C'mon Superficial dude, if you really thought Bettie was "So Freaking Hot", you'd know the difference between her and some skinny brat that doesn't even look like her.

mimi is a man

In my opinion, it is not whether she had the perfect body or not. It is a respect to a woman who helped many a lonely GI deal with a hell they weren't ready for and gave them a link to each other and back home. The same GIs that died and let people the opportunity to write on this site as you are now doing.

So to those that sit in a cozy apt/house bashing her...maybe your grandfather or grandfather's lifelong buds who sat in foxholes thought maybe alittle bit more of Ms. Page and helped an 'impact on society' that you could never dream of.

RIP Ms Page

89 your comment gave me goosebumps, so true..

Rest in peace sister! Catch you on the flip side.

I think it's adorable some of the children think Ms. Bettie Page is only popular because she was basically the only woman in the 1950's willing to get naked in front of the camera! Priceless. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took the first photograph one morning in 1826, the first naked female was photographed approximately around noon of the same day. The first prono VIDEO was somewhere around 1910! Kiddies, listen up, sex wasn't invented in the summer of 1969.

So freakin' hot indeed! that's real beauty that lives past her years, at least she died a major icon!

Haven't heard of her till now, but R.I.P all the same Bettie.

She is the the template of beauty in front of the camera and to all of the walls we see her on for decades! Wow! I did not know that is how Gretchen Mol started her career! She aged very well!

Butterface.

Men should cut their pubes off too and wax them (even better) if they expect women to or think they should for "feminine hygiene" reasons. I suspect its more for paedophile reasons and wanting womens genitalia to resemble a childs though than anything else.

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#61, #10, #11 #19, #27, #29 are all piiiiiiiigfuckers.

#61, #10, #11 #19, #27, #29 are all piiiiiiiigfuckers.

#61, #10, #11 #19, #27, #29 are all piiiiiiiigfuckers.

#61, #10, #11 #19, #27, #29 are all piiiiiiiigfuckers.

Bettie Page was SEXY.

I love how many guys on here like real women! But...why is everyone getting pissy at mimi but noone's saying anything to the guys who talk about wanting "sluts" to fuck in the ass, calling people cunts, douche water, anorexic bitches (blah blah blah).

We can all talk about how ugly or beautiful she is (and a bunch of other women), but how many of us would BETTIE PAGE have wanted to fuck?

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