Bettie Page Is In The Hospital
Well, this fucking sucks. Icon Bettie Page is in the intensive care unit of a Los Angeles hospital after she suffered a heart attack on Tuesday. Bettie's agent said she was hospitalized three weeks ago with pneumonia and she was about to be released when she had a heart attack. 85-year-old Bettie was transferred to another hospital on Friday. She's listed as "critically ill."
A friend of Bettie's family told AP that she's currently in a coma. Her agent wouldn't confirm it, but said, "I would not deny that."
I have the urge to call my rockabilly chola cousin to see how she's coping with this. I don't want to bother her though, because I'm sure she's holding a candle vigil in front of her Bettie Page shrine. I'm not joking. She really has a Bettie Page mini-shrine.
Good thoughts to Bettie.
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Betty had "it" and was such a sexy bitch. Good luck, Betty.
Submitted by Madam Pince: "If it's time for her to depart this life, I hope she does so peacefully & painlessly."
Well said. It's all we can hope for, for any of us.
@ Hekki:
On the beach AND re-enacting that From Here To Eternity scene ;D
Like MK says, good thoughts to Bettie. If it's time for her to depart this life, I hope she does so peacefully & painlessly.
If a woman today is as shapely as Bettie is in that photo, she's considered fat. Which is totally fucked-up.
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oh NO :(
Dita von Teese should be at her bedside; w/out Ms. Paige she'd be nothing, and I love me some Dita.
Hot stuff. As gyeah says, she is old. I always say I'd rather die from a heart attack than most anything else once I'm old. How awful is it to wither away and break a hip and languish in a nursing home. I hope I have a heart attack on the beach or something.
Sad news. Hope she can make it.
She is such an icon....nice curves and proud of them....Happy Thoughts to Bettie Page....
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It sucks but the woman IS 85, shit, i don't think i want live that long myself.
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"Everything die-diddly-dies, and that's a factoroonie!"
There are those very few people who have "it" and she was most definately one of them.
Adding to what others have said, it makes me really happy for some reason to know that she knows just how famous she is now (there's a good article in the LA Times from 2006 with a rare interview).
She's certainly had quite a life and then some.
Oh no...I hope she's okay.