Bettie Page Is All The Rage!

“Nobody knows the truth about her, and it really ought to be told. In 1954 I would pose for that woman for nothing or for $5 an hour, mostly in the nude out in the ocean or out in the woods. She said, ‘I will do right by you financially, Bettie, if the pictures sell.’ One of the first things she did was get me the Miss january 1955 spot in Playboy. She got quite a bit of money for that. She never gave me a penny. The only thing she ever gave me was a $5 makeup kit with a lid on it, but it didn’t have any makeup in it. I didn’t have anything in writing, though I signed a release allow-ing her to do what she wanted with the pictures, and she has been selling them allover the world ever since. She called me up one time to tell me she bought her home in North Miami with money she got from books that teach people how to draw nudes she had done of me. Two writers were going to put things right with my life-story book, and they interviewed me a lot. When they asked me to ask Bunny Yeager to please send photos to put in the book, I thought she’d give them to me for free, but she said, ‘Tell Bettie Page she’ll have to pay just like anyone else. It’ll cost her $200 a photo.’ Talk about a cheapskate.”

-Bettie Page on Bunny Yeager