Her legacy will live on for a long long time to come. Cheesecake Pin-up and Fetish Queen, she developed a cult following.
Her agent Mark Roesler said that "she captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality." For many, she was the embodiment of beauty. She had a distinctive style all her own that many admired and emulated - and still do!
After giving up modelling, she became reclusive, a born-again Christian and worked full time for an evangelical minister. On resurfacing in the 1990s, she never allowed herself to be photographed. She preferred that people remember her as she was. She never felt any shame in being photographed nude - she said that "God approves of nudity. Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, they were as naked as jaybirds"
Bettie Page is one of my cultural heroes. She survived a turbulent childhood and never lost her inner beauty and innocence. I salute you.
Rest in Peace.
