Many have said it already and many more will.

[uberreiniger]

RIP Bettie. I really think you changed the face of our society. I think you were the right person at the right time.

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[megiloth.livejournal.com]

I'm a dummy. Betty who? Betty Boop? Betty Ford? Betty Crocker? Betty Rubble?

Whoever it is/was, then Godspeed Mystery Betty :)

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Bettie Page. Yes she was alle Gothe and shite, but she was hot.

[rustie25.livejournal.com]

She was a hottie!

[stitchedsutures.livejournal.com]

I do think it's also terribly sad that she didn't even want anyone to see her in her later days though, due to all the hype and pressure about image, weight and all of that good ol' crap. That fact is more in my mind than all the image that people have obsessed about and worshiped for so many decades.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's that she thought she was ugly. I can't find the first article I read this morning now, but they quoted from her a few years ago explaining that she just preferred to be remembered the way she was. She said she felt the same way about old movie stars, preferring to think of them when they were in their prime. I think she recognized that she was in the business of creating fantasy and escape from reality for people and didn't want the realities of aging to intrude on it. I can respect that. The impression I get reading things she's said is that she was proud of what she had done, but at the same time didn't want to make a big deal about herself.