Betty Mae Page was born on 22nd April 1923 in Nashville, Tennessee. She moved to New York in 1947 to enroll in acting classes. In 1950 she met Jerry Tibbs on a beach at Coney Island and began to model for him, one year later she was working with Irving Klaw and his mail-order business promoting cheesecake and fetish imagery. After that, her popularity grew until in 1955 she was Miss January 1955 in Playboy magazine. However, by 1958 Bettie quit modelling and moved to Florida.
It was not until the 70's and 80's that she began to build a cult following and for a long time she had no idea that she had been crowned the "Queen of Bondage".
Bettie Page is so iconic her hairstyle is known as "Bettie Bangs" today and you do not have to look far to see her influence on modern fetish culture.
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