R.I.P. Bettie Page

Bettie Page, the gorgeous brunette and culty icon who gave Marilyn Monroe a run for her money, is dead. She was 85.

Page suffered from depression, violent mood swings, stays in mental asylums, and finally found God in her later years. She died Thursday evening at Kindred Hospital in Los Angeles. She had been on life support since Dec 2 when she'd suffered a heart attack.

"I want to be remembered," she said in an interview with Playboy Magazine in 2007, "as I was when I was young and in my golden times. . . . I want to be remembered as the woman who changed people's perspectives concerning nudity in its natural form."

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