
Bettie Page is the original booty shaker.
According to PLAYBOY magazine, Bettie Page is “the Queen of Pin-ups. the model of the century, yet she remains one of its best kept secrets.”
Mention her name to most, you get blank stares. Mention her name to some, you get a knowing look that rocks the room! As more and more people are learning, Bettie Page is a timeless legend, and also a conundrum, even to herself.
For those who understand who Bettie Page was, no explanation is necessary; for those who don’t, maybe no explanation is possible. Why? Because Bettie Page was and remains an underground phenomenon, a puzzling “bad girl next door” cult figure - sort of our collective guilty pleasure.
Since she was PLAYBOY’S Miss January of 1955, one might think her time has
come and gone. Not so. Bettiemania is huge and growing. Fashion designers
copy her. More and more supermodels are inspired by her style and
heart-breaking great looks. How many hundred Bettie Page Web pages are
there, out there? Since August 9, 2000 this site alone has tabulated 626
million hits. Fans can’t get enough of her. Fans want her. And fans find
her.
Naughty and nice, pinup extraordinaire Bettie Page was hot, is hot, and
likely will remain so in perpetuity. That’s who she is, too.
“I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn’t trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn’t think of myself as liberated, and I don’t believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn’t know any other way to be, or any other way to live.”
“I never was the girl next door”
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