Bettie Page Dies At The Age Of 85.

American Icon Bettie Page died Thursday, at the age of 85. She had been on life support since her coma-inducing heart attack last week; according to her agent Mark Roesler, Page’s family agreed to have that life support removed.

She will be missed.

From MSNBC Entertainment:

Her career began one day in October 1950 when she took a respite from her job as a secretary in a New York office for a walk along the beach at Coney Island. An amateur photographer named Jerry Tibbs admired the 27-year-old’s firm, curvy body and asked her to pose.

Looking back on the career that followed, she told Playboy in 1998, “I never thought it was shameful. I felt normal. It’s just that it was much better than pounding a typewriter eight hours a day, which gets monotonous.”

Nudity didn’t bother her, she said, explaining: “God approves of nudity. Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, they were naked as jaybirds.”

In 1951, Page fell under the influence of a photographer and his sister who specialized in S&M. They cut her hair into the dark bangs that became her signature and posed her in spiked heels and little else. She was photographed with a whip in her hand, and in one session she was spread-eagled between two trees, her feet dangling.

“I thought my arms and legs would come out of their sockets,” she said later. Full Article HERE