Insurance Gives Iconic Celebs a Leg Up!

Today, we all have insurance for all sorts of things. We insure our cars, our homes, and our health. But would you ever get insurance for your legs? These iconic celebrities did!

Dapper dancing man Fre Astaire knew just how important his legs were. Sure he's charming and handsome, but he is most known for his dancing. |To protect himself, he had his famous legs insured for $75,000 each (that's around $1.1 million dollars in today's money!!)

Iconic WW2-era pinup model and actress Betty Grable was said to have the most shapely legs in all of Hollywood. Grable’s gams were dubbed the “million dollar legs”, and they lived up to that nickname! To protect their most prized asset, her studio had them insured for $1 million or $8.95 million today.

Inflation calculated by http://www.westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi on 09/06/11. Article content provided by ExelSure.