Bettie Page made a name for herself in the 1950’s, being branded as the Pin Up Queen of that decade as she was the picture of perfection as far as posing for various magazines during those times. But the stint that really propelled her to stardom was when she posed for Playboy as Miss January 1955.

Unfortunately these will all be part of history as well as the life she lived. Page died of Pneumonia Thursday at the age of 85. She was admitted already some weeks back when she suffered a heart attack and never regained consciousness since then.

Page combined sweetness and sexuality in a series of now-legendary posters and photographs in the 1950s, including as one of the inaugural centerfolds in Hugh Heffner’s new magazine Playboy, which named her “the model of the century.”

(Source) Financial Post

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