The pin-up phenomenon was born around the twenties in the United States and identifies a type of girl different from the one that was proposed then, much more sexy and less mysterious. These women have been very different from each other over the years, recording various exponents including Joan Crawford in the beginning up to Goldie Hawn in the 1970s.
Let’s now look at the story of Bettie Page, a model that can be included in this category that had enormous success in the 1950s.
Who was Bettie Page
Bettie Mae Page (Nashville, April 22, 1923 – Los Angeles, December 11, 2008), was one American model. She grows up with her parents until she is ten when the two separate and she is placed in a boarding school together with her sister.
He graduates with an excellent average and enters college with the will to become a teacher. In the meantime though he is passionate about acting and decides she wants to become a successful actress so she finally graduates in the art course.
The beginning of her career as a model
After completing her studies, she worked for a period as a secretary and then moved to New York and tried to make it to the cinema. She gets a few small parts but real fame comes as a model, in fact after a few shots he becomes a real star of the sector.
He decides to use the bangs as a distinctive feature and soon the photographs he initially takes for fun are distributed commercially. Her shots often also see her naked and the protagonist of issues such as BDSM and bondage, becoming the first true exponent of this sector.
The pinnacle of success and definitive abandonment
It’s the 1950s and Bettie is now there New York’s most famous pin-up and take some photographs that have become iconic. These are remembered as “Bettie in the jungle” and they see her as the protagonist of a campaign which she created the lingerie herself.
He becomes the protagonist in the first years of “Playboy” a successful magazine that also starred Marilyn Monroe. But the modeling career is extremely unstable and Page decides to abandon her for various reasons, including the sad separation with her husband. Furthermore, her approach to religion led her to abandon this life more and more.