Betty Brosmer: a girl with an impossible waist (12 photos)

Girls and women have always dreamed of a thin waist. And to achieve their dreams, they not only masked fat with clothes, wore corsets, lost weight and played sports, but also removed ribs.





And this beauty was just lucky. Betty Brosmer embodied the classic hourglass figure thanks to a gift that nature itself gave her.



She rose to fame as the highest paid pin-up star of the 1950s and gained fame as one of the first supermodels.





Her photo graced the pages of prestigious magazines such as Life, Time, Fortune and Look. Betty also made history by becoming the first model to receive the rights to many of her photographs and negatives - an unprecedented occurrence in the industry.



One thing that made headlines for almost the entirety of her career was her incredibly narrow waist, which earned the model the nickname “the girl with the impossible waist.”

The waist defied physiological standards, its parameters seemed more like the creation of an artist than a reality.



Betty Chloe Brosmer was born on August 2, 1935 in Pasadena, California, and as a child was more tomboy than princess.

The father encouraged his daughter to play sports, and the girl became interested in bodybuilding as a teenager.



At the age of 13, Betty began working as a model and was noticed by such famous photographers as Alberto Vargas and Earl Moran. At age 15, she moved to New York to pursue a modeling career.

Living in New York brought great success, but also forced me to grow up quickly. “At 15, I looked 25,” Betty recalls of those days.

Soon her photo was everywhere - on milk cartons, billboards, in books and tons of magazines.



After a few years, she left New York and returned home to California. She worked as a model while studying psychology at the University of California.



Together with Joyce Wedrall, she created a workout plan for women of all ages, published as Better & Better in 1993.



Betty worked with renowned photographer Keith Bernard, who is known for capturing such stars as Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield.



Playboy also asked her to pose, but the model refused. From the very beginning, Betty knew her worth.

In the late 1950s, Betty met bodybuilder and magazine publisher Joe Weider. In love with Betty, Vader often published photos of the muse in his magazines. The couple eventually married in 1961.



After that, Betty became interested in fitness. She wrote columns on bodybuilding and health, emphasizing the healthy rather than gaunt appearance of cover models.



Together with her husband, she wrote two fitness guide books: The Women's Bodybuilding Book (1981) and The Body Book (1984).